"Tonight" First Mix

Pretty good I'd say. The vox sounds comp'ed. I wouldn't kill that much dynamics on the song using comp. Otherwise I think it is pretty perfect.

/David

Very nice....Great mellow vibe to it. I agree about the compression though....other than that, I would'nt change a thing.

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Hi,Very good song.Every instruments & vocals sound perfect.No one will believe if you say it is your first mix!Very well done.Very melodious too.
R.Chandrasekhar

Wow thanks guys! Actually this is my seventh mix attempt with this song.... but the first attempt at really seriously recording a song and finishing it. I have been recording for about 3 or 4 years, just screwing around in my bedroom. I have written enough songs that I have decided to put out a CD of my best ones........ mainly just for friends and family and who ever else wants it. I don't expect this to be 100% perfect, but I would like it as close as I can get lol.

I picked up some V-Drums (TD-3) and EZDrummer the other day and picked this song to start with. I had one of my friends come in who is a pretty good drummer and has worked with some local bands as a drummer for hire per say. Anyways he kind of taught me the ins and outs of using and playing along to a click, and he also played drums on this song.

Tonecarver - I agree with the cymbals being too loud at the end........ I was waiting for someone to say that lol. I had the drummer listen to it and he said it sounded good, and no one else I had listen to it, say the cymbals were too much.

If anyone cares; here is basically a break down of how the song was recorded.

Drums - V-Drums TD-3 - recorded stereo output, as well as midi. Midi sent to EZDrummer and mixed using EZDrummer mixer. I blended in the V-Drum kit audio recording because that kit seemed "bigger" to me. So what you are hearing is actually a mix between EZDrummer and the TD-3 module (kit 2) audio output. The drummer has worked with V-Drums before and he adjusted all the pads to get a pretty good natural mix across the whole kit.

Bass - Epiphone Thunderbird - Recorded Direct thru whirlwind DI box into Macki CFX-20
Acoustic - Martin recorded w/ 1 Studio Projects C4..... ART Tube preamp
Electrics (3 total) - Gibson Les Paul into Fender Blues Jr - recorded with an SM57.... ART Tube Preamp. I have been using a POD XT or my Vetta combo, but I seem to get better results using this little tube amp. The POD seems to eat up a lot of the mix too.

Vocals - Studio Projects C1 into DBX preamp

The interface used for this was a Motu 828 (first gen). I am waiting for my 2408 to come from sweetwater!!! It has been backordered for like 3 weeks now! I used Sonar 6, along with the vintage channel plugin (love it!) on pretty much every track but individual drums. Reverbs used on Vox was the Lexicon that comes with Sonar. I used the perfect space plugins for guitars.

There you have it! I will probably be posting more songs as time goes on and we get them done! Thanks for the feedback!

Evhwanabe, really enjoyed listening. Mix sounded great on my little pc speakers. Not sure about those cymbles in the very beginning, they sounded way out there... Other than that, I think you are doing an excellent job. Thanks for sharing.

Jcee

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Evhwanabe, really enjoyed listening. Mix sounded great on my little pc speakers. Not sure about those cymbles in the very beginning, they sounded way out there... Other than that, I think you are doing an excellent job. Thanks for sharing.

Jcee

Thanks Jcee,

Yeah I am thinking the cymbals need to be brought down in the mix...... EZDrummer has no real way to control Cymbal levels individually so I had to get fancy and run a CAL to split out all the notes from the original drum midi track........ I then deleted all drum hits but Cymbals > opened another instance of EZDrummer > sent them to a bus > bounced to tracks and then had a seperate Cymbal track I could control.