Lincoln Brewster - Today Is The Day - Christian Cover

My daughter liked it and started to sing along......

You can hear the compression.... not bad over all....

Were you trying to give me a run for your money?

Admit it... you were jealous of this beautiful wave?

I worked hard to get the top and bottom that flat......

It's a little odd hearing it start out with a female singer, but that's OK. :)  You had a whole rhythm section in your studio/living room?  What fun!  Anyway, sounds good to me.  But that's just me.  lol  The singers sound balanced, (and in tune), drums sound great and the guitar solo is a nice touch.  Well, at 3:22 when the singers come back in, it sounds a tad weak.  Or not in sync or something.  I probably wouldn't have heard it were it not accapella.  But all in all, great job!!

Bub


Hi Mooch,

The guitars don't sound right to me, but I don't know what it is. Were they recorded via mic'd amp or direct input? It sounds a little muddy also.

I only listened to it on headphones and it seems to need some work. The vocals themselves sound good. No pitch problems, timing, or anything like that.

Bub

one guitar was recorded through a marshall mx something or another with a sure 58 mic   I should know the name its my practice amp - and the other through a line 6 pod 


The pastor (guitar player) is a shredder from back in the 70's - he uses this old time distortion pedal with a harsh tone and a TON of background hum - ohh if I could get him to find a current distortion pedal or just use a nice amp with overdrive -   it was hard to eq and fix - 


but i.....ts his tone - and he a great pastor and plays pretty good too  - so I dont push it - and I am not throwing him under the bus - either  because a better engineer could probably eq a nicer tone despite the harsh pedal he uses - 


I wish I knew more what to do there - 

Due to the time limitations, I would simply remove the "elephant", and just give the "plain" mix a very mild compression to boost the volume a tadd. When you remove that elephant, you might lose a bit of volume, that is why I am thinking "mild" compression.

If you have the time, I would suggest working the individual tracks better. Each instument, every piece of percussion and each vocal could use a tweak. At least, to my ears.

I hate doing this, since you have already put a good deal of time and effort into this, but I would have approached the mix differently. And that difference in approach would have brought out a different mix, which would not need any compression or limiting. There is nothing "wrong" with your mix, it is just a difference in style that I am hearing.

If you want to send the raw tracks, I would offer my services for free, (after all, it is for a church group) and you could judge for yourself, use yours or mine, and I would never know, since the final cd burn would never be heard by me...

I am "blessed" with large amounts of time, my recent illness still has me down pretty much, but mixing is not "work". The hardest part of my day is staying awake, fatigue causes sleep to take over every couple hours, but that would not be a problem with a song on the 'puter.

Later
Albert

Ok that's enough ...
 
no one else comment any more on this song
 
 
I just can't handle it

philz


Hey, so, where did it go? 

because my brain exploded ... 


I have about 5 or 6  different mixes -  and about 3 or for different "masters"   


and then I posted it -  and I am hearing different opinions and one guy who I wont even name - re did a whole new master with his vision ' 




and then my brain exploded  


I dont know anymore - whats best for this song - i need to walk away from it and come back later  


I am trying to hard or something  


but first - - I have to pick up my brains from the explosion