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not bad !!

but the recording result very dark and soo far !!

Ciao

thanks elix and scottytunes
I played the instruments except the drums, which I programmed.
I can redo the drums with a more pronounced Bass drum part. I used a Roland DR880 for this. 
I'll work on it more once I have a few things to try on it. All done in my mates studio.
Thanks for the listen!
C ya

 You have a good song here, but, as others have noted, the mix sounds distant and doesn't blend with the vocal.  You can easily fix this, and you'll have a winner on your hands.

Thanks to foxwolfen, lynn and tfbattag.
How can i get the vocal to blend more with the band?

Thank you Janet.
Glad you enjoyed my song.

Cheers james
I'll give that a go

the wildman

and lastly by James who gave some specific ideas via PM.

Did I..? Must have been some other body. 




This sounds tons better..vocals sound great now.


Drums are clearer but there's not much difference between the kick and the snare, they're both very clicky.


The bass is pretty low now, that could come up.


If you have more than one guitar track I would pan them left and right outside the vocal, or balance the guitar and piano that way, leave some room in the centre for the bass.


Is the organ playing right through the song? I only heard it at the end.


Huge improvement though.

The story of my life. It's all in bins just sitting there collecting dust. Stacked 5 feet high. It's been sitting there so long it easy to understand how the Earth compresses things.

Love the song. It's a fun one!!

Well done!

This piano thing that came on after is really cool! Most excellent!!!

Great song and great progress on it! The biggest challenge when you're the whole band plus engineer plus producer is switching hats such that each component gets equal attention. Guitar players tend to mix guitars too loud. Drummers, the drums. Singers are either overconfident and mix the vocals too hot, or they're lacking in confidence and mix them too low. It's actually really hard to put yourself into each role with equal enthusiasm and still see the big picture.

As for mix suggestions, the balance is good but what I'm missing is width and depth. See what might be moved out of the center, e.g. backing vocals, and play with delays and reverb to add width and move some elements back in the mix. For example, there are some guitar lead lines that could be shifted, perhaps adding an opposite-panned reverb or delay to balance it out.

great comments bitflipper and bapu
ill try out those suggestions.
i also think that i need to lower the hi hats as they seem to dominate.

thanks again

nice work.  the mix seems to lack "clarity" and it seems very "dull"  sounds like a few timing issues here and there - no one else mentioned it, so maybe I'm just hearing it wrong?

I personally don't like the hat sound

This is a very cool song, and I’m sorry I missed it earlier...
Great lyrics and singing... Solid guitar track, but it’s stepping on the vocal.
The main problem is; The drum track is completely wrong for this song.. It’s way too busy, and erratic..
The intro is a mess, and I can’t hear what the bass is doing.
"YourSpace, MyTube"  I love the song idea, and I hope you’ll develop the track further.
The first thing I’d do is replace the drums with a simple, rock-solid, fat drum track...
Then I’d record another, different guitar part, Hi-pass filter both guitars, and hard pan ‘em...
Filter and bump up the bass. Keep at it until it all works...