3 Complete mixes for your critique/enjoyment/whatever

Ambola - Alice Sweet Alice

The first song is rock and is called Anabola or Ambola or some such thing. Scott from Alice Sweet Alice gave it to me about a year ago to mix, when I was just starting out. I decided to take another stab at it.

This song was particularly hard to mix because the recordings were quite bad. The vocals were not recorded very well - the natural EQ was way off, there was no compression done beforehand, Scott did lots of breathing before he starts a phrase in the song and there were all sorts of other defects due to the recording :(

A lot of the guitar tracks also had massive clipping. You'll notice that a lot of rhythm parts don't have much in the way of dynamics. Again, they weren't really recorded correctly.

Nonetheless, I really wanted to challenge myself and make something out of it. I think you'll be pleased:

http://soundcloud.com/fecharacterguide/anabola5

Sometimes - Jonathan Roung

This is a acoustic/country true. It could be melo alternative maybe. I dunno. Anyway, it's a great vocal performance and very good arrangement:

http://soundcloud.com/fec...nathan-roung-sometimes

Stargazing - Jonathan Roung

This is acoustic/country rock tune. Not as strong as "sometimes", but still quite good. This was also a challenge to mix as the guitar recordings and vocals were pretty bad.

http://soundcloud.com/fec...athan-roung-stargazing

All 3 were mixed and mastered by me. Enjoy!

PS: I hate the way soundcloud compresses and lessens the quality of the mixes :( I spend all of this making them sound great and they destroy all the work :/

If someone has a better site to use, I'm all ears.

I listened to the 2nd and third songs.

Sometimes:
The guitars and everything sound great to my ears!

Stargazing:
Again, it all sounded great to me.

I liked the ambola one. My kind of music. I think I could have used more passion from the singer, but meh, whatever.

oooh stargazing. Nice.