Thanks. They are excellent comments.rampantmusik wrote: Give Our Regards (and so on):
You win my prestigious award this week for "Best Mixed Vocals"; the lead, left-panned backing vocals, and guitars are mixed very well; the right-panned backing vocals are a little quiet, perhaps, in the bridge; I know they're only backing lyrics and you have two other vocal tracks playing over it, but even listening for them, I couldn't make the lyrics out. The bass is perhaps a tiny bit too quiet for my tastes, as it's fun to listen to.
Finally, your drums are just terrible. Sorry. They're way too quiet, so much so that - aside from the cymbals - they're almost inaudible. The snare just lacks any punch, which is a necessity in punk-rock tracks like this. The kick has a lot of beater/attack, but nothing else, which makes it sound hollow and weak. When using sequenced drums, you really want to take the extra time to play around with the velocities of each snare and hi-hat trigger: it can make the track sound a lot more realistic and can help alleviate the 'machine gun effect,' which is especially noticeable in your snare fills/rolls.
I always have problem with bass - because I mix in headphones. Yeah...I know...I shouldn't
Good to know I my vox and gtr are OK - I have spent a lot of time trying to improve that in my recording over the past year or so.
Now to start work on that drum stuff. The drums are a complete dark art to me. Generally - I don't touch them at all - that is just how they come out of the AppleloopTM box, then they get an Ozone preset put over them with everything else. Time I gave them a bit more attention. Thanks again.