New Song, " All We Need"..Rock,Classic Rock

 
 I put this song together in the studio over that last few weeks here and there as I had the time to do it.
 
 The song is called, "We All Need", I would be interested to hear how it comes across on your systems and any other comments are welcome. Thanks for listening!! 
 
Updated mix..... 3.23
  
 
http://soundcloud.com/starise/we-all-need    I thinned out the drums mix and made more space for the bass and drums. 
   
                                                                                                                   Tim (starise studio)

 Thanks Paulo! Yeah , lappy speakers this mix probably looses some umph, I'll look into the range and try to spice it up a bit there in those freqs.

 I have another vocal  for that chorus,but it seemed to be coming across as too aggressive lol. Maybe I can find a happy medium.

 Thanks for listening.

I like this song, and I think it has a lot of potential.  The vocal is quite good, and I like the clean guitar sound.  As for the drums, I hear the cymbals very well, but I heard no bass nor snare.  Perhaps this is intentional?  I think this will shine with the right mix because it's pretty good now.

Tim,

Vox seem over compressed.

Drums feel to low in the mix (to me) or to far removed (like they are in another room).

Pretty good song and your vox are sung well.

I think there might be a decent tune in there, but this mix is just awful and incoherent. I have no idea what you are going for here, Tim.  Sorry.

 Bapu- Thanks for your take on the track. I think there are likely some phasing issues with my drums since I am using two drum tracks.Wanna play bass on this one? I should have asked you before.Thanks for the comments.

 Josh- You can do a lot of things with the podxt too as I'm sure you already know. I'm not the least bit sorry I got the variax. A veteran player might not be totally happy with some of the tones,just like a tube purist might not be happy with Amplitube 3,but the emulations are pretty darned close.



 James- Thanks for your take on this tune. I think I am getting thicker skin, don't hold back on me lol. I should have listened better to my monitors. With ARC correction they were sucking the bass out of my space,however the mix sounded good on headphones. I should have trusted my ARCed monitors more. This and some phasing issues seem to be robbing the mix.

 Bandontherun- I intentionally distorted the vocal backup under the pre-chorus if that is what you mean by distorted.I'm not sure. No mushroom pizza here lol......I double tracked one guitar and maybe there are some issues there. The solo could have been a little more on I suppose. Thanks for listening.

 Hopefully by the end of this week I'll pull the entire mix back and redo it. I'll repost that mix and hopefully I will be more in the ballpark then.....Thanks for listening to this!

Hey, Tim,

Very cool classic rock song with a lot of really good potential!  Great songwriting, I really like your vocals, the guitar parts, and the nice arrangement.  I think it will definitely be worth a little extra time on the mix to make it really shine.  I'll keep my eyes open for the remix.

Great song, nice work, Tim! 
Bob

Really great tune and performances. Mix is not there yet IMO. there is also a couple of min. of silence at the end.

 Thanks Lynn and Grant.  I plan to take this up yet again from a fresh start hopefully later in the week. Don't really like the accompany vocals and I agree about the guitar....I am peaking the drums and bass at the important frequencies, but I agree it still seems to be lost in places in this mix.Better,but not there yet. Hopefully a little rest and I'll have a fresh take on it.

 Not sure if others have experienced this- the mixdown track sounds different than the pre mix...some instruments come out well in the premix and are lost at mixdown??

When it started out, the vocals sounded a bit different, but I can't explain it.  But I like the song as a whole---good tune and arrangement..and playing and singing. :)