Alice Sweet Alice - These Old Shoes - THURSDAY REPOST

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7285403

OK, sorry to post two in such quick succesion. I had this one done, and LOST it due to a computer malfunction. Moral to this story. When you think you're done with a mix, BACK IT UP - right there and then on DVD and throw it in a firesafe. Hard lesson to learn, but I learned it.

So I actually A/B'd this mix and the last one, and think I like this new one better anyway. Also, I've gotten a lot of comments about "fizzy" guitars, but that may be a genera-specific thing. Here's an example of an Love & Rockets song that I used to love as a teenager, and now I think the guitars kind of sound like crap. So if you wanna hear fizzy, there it is: but you can still have "fizzy" guitars and sell a butload of records.

The song is by Love and Rockets and it's entitled "Kundalini Express"

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.2821968&remote=false&page=&pageregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=

Anyway, enjoy!

Very nice soundscape you created. "Fizzy" guitars didn't bother me at all.

Thanks for sharing!

hey Scott

guitars do sound better on this than on your previous post. one thing you could try is using a free plug called T-Sledge - i often strap it across a guitar buss and use the preset called (i think) 'Vintage warmer' or something similar....it does wonders with that fizzyness. justr worth a try - it's free!
the male vocal seems too far out front of the mix. and isn't as good as the female vox. a greta tune again, this album's gonna be a corker!
btw, in the other thread, i wasn't comparing you to Portishead, but to The Whores of Babylon http://www.whoresofbabylon.co.uk/ i still listen to their first album a lot...

I thought it was great. Great vocalists and mix. I can't really offer any helpful crits.

ha well great minds and all that, Scott! with regard to the male vocal, it was a lot more out front than the female vocal, i think it is still, a little too much, it either needs to be slightly quieter in volume or with more 'verb just to pull it in - y'see, listening to it, it's not a bad vocal, it's jsut that i'm so used to your verb drenched dreamy music that having a fairly straight up vocal is..odd. but listening to it again, cos i knoew it was coming, it was better - but if you listen as 3'50 where the male and female are together, the male is a lot more powerful...i'd pull back the volume and add more verb to that, i think! BTW this is my favourite one of yours, great quality goth-rock.