4th August 2008 @ 10:10pm
This week's soundbite comes from Mastadon Studios. Mastadon invites the NiceUp community to audition and comment on an upcoming track. In particular, any horn players that are feeling / not feeling the trombone solo, please give their 2-cents!
There is conflict within the Studios at present about how to approach the drums - obviously they are very temporary at the moment, but the
debate is whether to bring them forward and get them to busy up, or to keep a subtle time in the BG. Any thoughts?
And please - submit audio bites to mastadonstudios@gmail.com if you would like to share.
Download: smooth_noodle_for_NU.mp3 (1.89 MB)
Comments
The horn line is wack! sounds bad and doesn't fit in with the music, everything else sounds okay though
Horn line aint wack, just different, a smooth noodle indeed.
Drums - maybe some big big big bass accents to match the big horns....??
I like it, it's in your face, or in this case ears...
who this by?
It's by Spin Zero
It's got some really creative and interesting parts to it - specially the organs...
But to honest I would say the mix needs a lot of work.
On my system the bass and horns seem to be really really loud - where as the skank and drum parts are bloody quiet.
I reckon boost those two for a start - and drop the bass and horns back - bass in particular (for mine) should be something that is more felt than heard (this doesn't mean it can't be heavy as fuck)
I reckon you could splash some reverb on the drums too - probably wanna compress dem as well to get them nice and punchy - especially the rim-shots.
That's my 2 bucks.
Chur
Corp - can you expand? I love hearing criticism, but 'wack' isn't giving me much to go on.
Thanks Naram, I need to know how the mix plays on other systems; mine must be due for a calibrate.
I think every system plays differently - what monitors have you got - are they flat response?
The best way to perfect your mix is to compare it other tracks - mixed by professionals - its always surpising how low the bass is mixed...
You should also play it on a vairiety of different speakers - cans, midi-system, car steroe and full blown system with subs - that way you'll get a good idea of how differnet mediums will respond...
Are those horns live or synthed?
Naram nailed it: drums up, skank up, organ up, horns and bass are over loud. I used to think it was a good idea to check tunes on different systems, until the bro got some proper monitors : ) dont really need to now.
That panned out sound ??? sounds like a muted trombone or trumpet? I got this rule: if you find your self constantly turning a sound down and moving it out of the way in the mix to fit in, its probably cause its shit and you should chuck it out. Go hard, something original / different : ) fuck load better than any of my horrible attempts to record trombone....
Hmm good advice - I'd love to play it diff systems, I guess that's partly what I'm doing by putting it there for yous to test.
My system is flat, but set up for film sound ie to cope with much more dynamic (and now it's at work leaving me with my budge monitors).
And I've been playing with a plugin called Lowender which would explain the extreme bass.
Thanks for the comments - f'n useful guys!
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