Old 11-01-2018, 05:45 PM   #1
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Hi all,
Just finished mixing a song in Reaper, looking for any tips, feedback, etc.
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Old 11-01-2018, 11:01 PM   #2
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Great performance.
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I like the direct and natural sound of the voice(s). I also like the positioning of the multiple voices which (to me) unfortunately only is done when the additional voices appear the first time, while later they are just on top of each other.

To me the reverb on the drums sometimes is disturbingly strong.

-Michael

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Old 11-01-2018, 11:38 PM   #3
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It all sounds good ! I felt it was building up for a solo section that lifts up.
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Old 11-02-2018, 03:16 AM   #4
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I wish I could engineer that kind of in your face/close up yet perfectly clear sound. Can't fault the performance or production.
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Old 11-02-2018, 05:20 PM   #5
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Thanks very much for listening and for your feedback, very much appreciated!
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Old 11-05-2018, 09:59 AM   #6
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Great song and mix. I like your voice.
You do hold back your singing. Try to practise on emphazise parts to get it more dynamic.
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Old 11-05-2018, 06:40 PM   #7
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Thanks very much for listening and for your feedback, totally agree, I will practice on trying not to hold back on vocals
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Old 11-05-2018, 11:51 PM   #8
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The production is very clean. But the auto-tune seems to not being used as a creative effect but rather to "clean up" the tuning of your singing which is quite tiring after a while. The artefacts are just way too prominent in my opinion.
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Old 11-06-2018, 03:38 PM   #9
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Thanks very much for taking a listen, really appreciate the feedback.
Yes, I used ReaTune to tune my lead and background vocals, I was experimenting and found that setting the attack time to 10 ms created a bit of auto-tune effect, but great feedback that you found it too much, thanks again!
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Old 11-06-2018, 10:33 PM   #10
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Supposedly Melodyne would offer more sophisticated options for automatic and manually tweaked corrections to find a perfect balance between "errors" and artifacts.

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Old 11-06-2018, 10:56 PM   #11
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kick autotune and learn sing in tune
or sing like .. hmm.. robert plant .. may be
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Old 11-08-2018, 06:26 PM   #12
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Thanks for the feedback, I've heard of Melodyne but never tried it, will check it out, thanks again!
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Old 11-10-2018, 11:28 AM   #13
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Great performance.
On Headphones:

To me the reverb on the drums sometimes is disturbingly strong.

-Michael
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Old 11-11-2018, 06:24 PM   #14
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Thanks very much for taking a listen, appreciate the feedback on the drums.
I used Kontakt kit "Abbey Road Drummer" and Kontakt has a mixer on the kit, it was set to "psychedelic", which was basically tons of reverb.
Then I was following a mixing tutorial from Kenny and followed the steps to add some FX to the drum tracks, including reverb, but the drums probably already had enough from the Kontakt mixer.
Thanks again for the feedback!
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