Underhills / Everyone's Burden for your review

Dave

Love it. Put me down for a CD when it comes out. This will be a standout track, I'm sure.

there is no comparison as far as sound quality goes

This was tracked professionally for the last project, but only got included on the last CD print, which no one really ever saw. So I have all the mix parts available and we want to include it on this CD since it will be new to almost everyone. It was recorded through an SSL board to ADAT, so yes, it is going to sound better...much better. Funny how things sound great when you're paying $700 / day.

I recomp'd some vocal takes to get the performance where it should be, remixed it a bit, and voila.

Dan, you're a big drumagog guy...how do you like it thus far? I've got a rough mix I'm gonna release here in the next few days and I'm really thinking about replacing most of the kit. My drummer is the one who tracked most of the stuff and I'm having some serious issues with the sounds he got for all this.

I haven't sprung for it yet but it's seeming like it's gonna be a necessity at this point.

Yes, that is me singing (or shall we say oversinging).

It was recorded through an SSL board to ADAT, so yes, it is going to sound better...much better. Funny how things sound great when you're paying $700 / day.

Sucks donit? Oh well. Life must go on.

Anyhow the biggest difference between this and head first was in the drums. Although that acoustic sounds darn good, too.

Drumagog - absolutely indispensable AFAIC. If you were to use that on Head First it would be like night and day. On my wife's song compassion the drummer brought in this trashy sounding Ludwig snare drum from the 1960's and talked me into letting him use it on the song. It ended up sounding like dog doo - tons of ring and ugly overtones. No snap or punch at all. It was a terrible choice. Enter Drumagog; Replaced that POS with a well tuned, well maintained '59 Slingerland and now it's beautiful. No need to re-track and it's about as easy to use as you could ever ask for.

Anyway - once again - good tune.

Thanks,

P.S. that “Compassion” mix is about 4 generations old now. It’s been updated several times but I never bothered to upload the new ones.

Sounds awesome, great song

Keg and Randy...

Thanks.

Esp. to Keg...

For that avatar.

Thanks.

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Esp. to Keg...

For that avatar.

Thanks.

No problem

just keepin' it real

Yeah, I'm an Underhills fan now. This tune will add contrast to the CD. Only thing I'd mention is the snare sounds loose in the beginning - but that's a matter of taste. Great harmonies. You guys are filling the Toad the Wet Sprocket void nicely.

david - great song. i like the way you mixed the acoustic and electrics. strong emotional vocal. nice.

Hi David,

this is an absolutely great song. I really like the "darker side" of the Underhills, although it could be much darker for my personal taste.

Sound and performance are really outstanding.

But.... (and sometimes I really hate to be the wiseass who finds something in every song) ...I have a problem with the acoustic guitar.
I feel some kind of confusing preassure on my ears. The every tone seems to wander from the right to the left. So I checked this with headphones. It seems like the scratch of the pick over the strings is somewhat centered. But the sustain comes with a very little delay from the left. This is confusing, because there is no such thing in reality.
Is the acoustic guitar mic'd with two or three mics? Near mic centered, room mic left?

Most important question: Does anybody else hear that, or am I getting mad here?

Greets
Melf

(and sometimes I really hate to be the wiseass who finds something in every song)

Melf...

Thanks for the kind words.

You and Dan are right on with the acoustic guitar... It had 2 mic's that were X Y'd by hand...but there is also a very slight chorus that may be playing with you as well to broaden the spectrum on the acoustic. I do kind of like the sound, however, but I can play around to see if I can reduce the effect while keeping the spread.

If you want dark...check out Triangle Mary

I swear I must've gone off some type of medication when I wrote that one...
It gets slapped by the originality police because of it's redundant progression, but it fit so perfectly amid our other tunes for the last project that we had to include it. We sometimes have an identity crisis...but it's all good. Keeps it interesting.

Maybe just different strokes. Right Dan?

Well in fainess, I have only listened to the song through my "CrapoPhones" so I don't know what I hear through my reference monitors.

But to be real dark, the vocals are way too innocent.

That's about as dark as we get, Melf. Really, the only thing dark about it is the lyrical content. The rest is kind of 80's edgy...

only listened to the song through my "CrapoPhones"

I have a pair of those, but mine are the official Crap-o-foneâ„¢ brand Crap-phones. It sounds like you got a fake-o-pair.

Slick! Great job... my monitors were smiling while it played

Hey, thanks Sonic. My monitors seem to grimace at me as of late. Hopefully I'll have them smiling soon enough.

But I have to admit that I don't understand the lyrics

Melf, the lyrics for Triangle Mary are dark because they're about a guy trying to explain/rationalize to his dead girlfriend why he killed her and her lover.

IMHO, flawless. I can't hear anything wrong with the drums. There is such a thing as overproduction, I would think twice before changing anything. Of, course, I am only listening through my pc sound system, so maybe you hear something I don't.

David,

You and your band did a very good job on this song.

Mixwise the only thing that caught my ear was the ring on the snare during the verse only.

Darryl