Thanks for the listen and the feedback.an-electric-heart wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:35 am Just listened to Super Mom too. I do actually listen to your songs, but never have any specific critiques, so just stay quite... having said that, I thought I'd just chime in to agree with what others are saying; You've got a nice clear, up-front mix going on there compared to your usual stuff... not that I think your usual stuff sounds "bad", to me your previous stuff normally just has some of the qualities of older recordings, like it's from the '70s or something (not talking about the song writing, just the overall sound of the mix)... and there isn't necessarily anything wrong with that!
As for the music, it's cool, kind of feels like Santana's radio stuff.
FWIW, I grew up in the 60s and 70s so tend to gravitate towards that sound. But my early recordings sounded just plain bad because I was just plain bad. Didn't know what I was doing. Now my more recent stuff that still has that 70s sound, yeah, that's intentional. This track I tried something different.
So just how did I get this mix to sound like this? Well, a few things.
1. I massively cut down on the number of tracks. Only about 15 on this one and half that is the drums.
2. I processed the lead vocal as clean as possible. Only EQ, compression and a touch of reverb and delay.
3. Used very few FX across the whole thing.
4. Agonized over the SPAN. Made sure nothing was even remotely rearing its ugly head.
5. Paid attention to the stereo spread of everything making sure I kept instruments out of each other's way.
6. Didn't over arrange the whole thing, which I tend to do. Kept it relatively simple.
I seriously doubt I could get this clean a recording with 100 tracks, nor would I even attempt it. That good I'm not. At least not yet.
Baby steps.
