Acoustic Tune - "Back Together"

Song mixed/mastered by me.

http://soundcloud.com/fec..cterguide/back-together

Comments appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback and kind words ;)

I'll try and get the drums to be more up front. The kit was not recorded very well - there is tons of bleeding where the toms, snare and both overhead mics all sound the same (for the most part). Yes, gating and eq helps to create some definition, but sadly, everything is at the same volume. This really limited me to what I could do with the drums - because the hi hats and cymbols are all very high volume on all of these tracks... which causes a massive build up. I had to replace the snare that sounded very similar to the one that was actually used as it is. I'll try and boost the rim shots and put some envelopes on the kick to see if that helps.

EDIT: Drums corrected a bit.

The bass guitar is just a mess on this song. I don't know what to do. It has no attack in the actual playing - it actually sounds like it's not real and is just deep beeps for the most part... and yeah, there are a lot of long notes. I spent awhile trying every trick in the book to fix the attack on it and I just gave up. The solution is to retrack it, which is not possible :(

I could use Trilogy or something, but that'll take a lot of effort to match the notes, etc.

I made a few changes to the bass. I don't think it did much. It's a little more defined I guess.

I boosted the kick by 1db too, which helped the song a bit.

lil pitchy here and there (e.g. "Make me whole") also I'm not a big fan of the double vox which runs 90% of the time thru the tune....I'd like to hear it come in when as more impact is needed...as is it takes away from the tune (at times)....

I like the delivery of the vox...I also like the doubling of the guitars in the break but again I'd mix and match them (doubling them as needed and not throughout the whole section)
 
this tune has a great foundation and something else I really appreciate is that it sounds sincere w/o sounding whiny which plagues many too many worship tunes.
 
good job!

Yeah the acoustic guitar does sound very nice, can you share information on the signal path?

type of guitar, mics and placement, pre-amps, and any processing?

acoustigod


It's kind of humorous that you thought the vocalist was sincere. I actually concluded the opposite. (I'm not big on the whole worship thing personally... I just mixed it). I'm glad it came across that way, because the original vocals were patched together in multiple places and I had to do different things to make it all seem seamless.

I actually like the dynamics between the two guitars playing at the same time. To cut one of them out would leave a hole in and make the mix mono sounding, which I think is bad. It needs to be full and big as it can. If there were strings and violins, I would agree... but they absent.

What do you mean by pitchy? I didn't use a pitch tuner. This is how the vocal tracks came to me.

You did a good job in patching the vox together as I couldn't detect that it was peice-mealed together...so mission accoplished there. As far as the gutiars if it has the sound you were shooting for then your good to go. Pitchy as in out of tune a bit....again nothing too bad but just passing on what I'm hearing...
 
 

The acoustics sound good to me.  Vocals are nicely produced/blended
The drums seem to be lacking in the bottom end.
The bass sounds like it was in another room. 

You can only mix/master what they give you though...

WOW it brilliant perfects everything and again i would love too had one of your mixing techniques at my songs. Im a fan

Thanks. I tried uploading it again a few hours ago because I noticed soundcloud was distorting the sound of the acoustics too much - that's not in the actual mix. But then I realized that all of my soundcloud files sound worse. I think they applied a different compression algorithm on them. I am not a fan of compression of music. If anyone knows of a site that doesn't mess with the files, I'd love to hear about it.