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2016/04/26 18:22:37
bapu
Maybe I'm drunk or my high end ear buds (Sennheiser IE6) are shot, but that sounded like about 200% more reverb than I would have put on a piece like that. It's swimming in reverb IMO. But.... maybe that's what you wanted so it's all good in the hood.
 
2016/04/26 20:36:45
J.S.
Thanks Lynn , I'm always looking for new ways to be created and improve my music and mixes .
My newer computer crashed on me so I'm now working with my old computer .
Had problems with too many tracks recorded and had to take some of my tracks and turn them into wav files after mixing them first .
That's not the way I wanted to finish this song but after working with everything I recorded and mixing everything about ten times over the song sounded pretty good in my ears . I really need a new more powerful computer to work with but it's takes money to do that , my new car monthly payments and other monthly bills isn't helping me reach that goal so I work with what I have and be thankful I have something to record with .
Thanks Lynn for the listen and comments , cheers !
2016/04/26 21:16:52
bitflipper
I really liked Red Rooster.
 
Betty Lu was nice, too, but there's some lo-fi grit going on in places. Maybe it's intentional and I'm showing my geezerdom, but if I heard that in one of my mixes I'd start soloing tracks to figure out if something was clipping. Can't hear it clearly enough to tell you which track it's coming from, but I hear it more in the left channel if that helps.
 
Good frequency balance on both tunes. So often material of this genre is overly bass-heavy, usually due to sub-par monitoring that forces folks to guess where the bass should be. Listening here on a full-range system, it's right where it should be.
2016/04/26 23:03:51
J.S.
Thanks for the comments and advice I will check that out with my Betty Lu song .
Thanks bitflipper
2016/04/26 23:04:20
emeraldsoul
I'd let the reverb on the initial rooster wash its decay into your track - it cuts off abruptly as you begin the song.
 
I'd like the rooster to be in the same room. 
Watch out for comb filtering.  :)
 
sounds good - I agree with Bapu on the reverb, it's a monsoon where a cloudburst might do. Still sounds cool, though.
 
cheers,
-Tom
2016/04/27 13:06:32
J.S.
Swimming in reverb , yes there's reverb added to the rooster crowing , reverb added to my electric guitar tracks , no reverb on my bass track or my synth pad tracks .
Reverb added to my violin track and with my saxophone track , that's it .

Thanks for the swim lesson , your a life saver ! James
2016/04/27 13:10:59
J.S.
Thanks for the listen and comments , might make some small changes in the next two weeks , see what happens , thanks James
2016/04/27 13:58:16
Mesh
Very nice ambient groove there J.C. I agree with Serious Noize that it does need something in the middle (vocals or melody) which should give it a full body.
 
Nice mix of sounds....yeah that Rooster was a bit shocking :)....the Red Rooster must've been a alternative place for those that didn't go to the Chicken Ranch?

 
I enjoyed your track Slowburn.......very cool groove and something I can imagine soloing in to. :)) 
2016/04/27 15:52:34
J.S.
Thanks for your listen and comments , so you know about that Red Rooster place in Las Vegas ! LOL
Yea I plan on adding vocals to it soon , I promise my best friend Steve I would have it finished with lyrics and vocals early next month .
The Chicken Ranch is the next best place to go if your into all of that stuff , not sure if I would ever go to any of those places but from what he was telling me those places are always busy , I wonder why ! LOL
2016/04/27 23:41:33
J.S.
Just for the record this song is not swimming in reverb , yes there's some reverb and that's ok because I like the way it sounds right now .
I play it in my car and it sounds great , play on my CD home stereo and it sounds great and using my monitor mixing speakers it sounded great but I guess there will always be a few who want to go backwards instead of moving forward !
I might make small changes here and there but it's not going to be very much , I'm happy with the way it sounds now but again you can't make everyone happy .

Cheers ! James
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