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Sep 8 2012 07:49pm
Comment on sound quality/production quality and give me tips to improve!

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Sep 8 2012 08:05pm
Sounds good to me overall.
I would lower the vocal/guit mix abit and raise up the drum tracks.

How many microphones did you use to record the drum parts?
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Sep 8 2012 08:24pm
Quote (Kafir @ Sep 9 2012 03:05am)
Sounds good to me overall.
I would lower the vocal/guit mix abit and raise up the drum tracks.

How many microphones did you use to record the drum parts?


It's actually all MIDI on Logic. :D

/e the drums, that is.

This post was edited by lukeyowns on Sep 8 2012 08:24pm
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Sep 9 2012 11:20am
Sounds pretty good in general.
The guitar cuts off too fast in the end. I'd suggest fading it out instead of cutting it.

Drums need to come up. The lead guitar EQ needs some adjustments.

The piano need to come in at some point during the song centered and not too stereo sounding because the guitar and vocals have so much stereo sound on them it's enough for the song.
Just to keep people listening by adding attractive licks and piano chords after a while in the song. Because the song is a bit repetative
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Quote (Rushton @ Sep 9 2012 06:20pm)
Sounds pretty good in general.
The guitar cuts off too fast in the end. I'd suggest fading it out instead of cutting it.

Drums need to come up. The lead guitar EQ needs some adjustments.

The piano need to come in at some point during the song centered and not too stereo sounding because the guitar and vocals have so much stereo sound on them it's enough for the song.
Just to keep people listening by adding attractive licks and piano chords after a while in the song. Because the song is a bit repetative


Quote (Rushton @ Sep 9 2012 06:20pm)
Sounds pretty good in general.
The guitar cuts off too fast in the end. I'd suggest fading it out instead of cutting it.

Drums need to come up. The lead guitar EQ needs some adjustments.

The piano need to come in at some point during the song centered and not too stereo sounding because the guitar and vocals have so much stereo sound on them it's enough for the song.
Just to keep people listening by adding attractive licks and piano chords after a while in the song. Because the song is a bit repetative


I was thinking the exact same thing. The original song has no piano so I thought I'd throw some in there! Second verse or something would be a nice addition. The drums are MIDI so I tried to bury them a bit, but I'll bring 'em up! It's tough to get a real drum sound out of the Logic presets. Wish I had native instruments!

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Quote (lukeyowns @ Sep 9 2012 02:55pm)
I was thinking the exact same thing. The original song has no piano so I thought I'd throw some in there! Second verse or something would be a nice addition. The drums are MIDI so I tried to bury them a bit, but I'll bring 'em up! It's tough to get a real drum sound out of the Logic presets. Wish I had native instruments!


EZ Drummer isn't too bad. Cost like $90.

I've heard the best is Steven Slate Drums though.
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Sep 12 2012 02:10pm
the mix sounds good on my rokit 5s like said above raise the drum mix up a bit...even if its midi its the backbone it needs to be strong. try adding some compression to the drums to get some more punch from em.
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Sep 21 2012 12:51pm
tune your guitar
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Sep 25 2012 01:06pm
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tune your guitar


sounds fine to me.

compression?
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Oct 1 2012 10:20pm
yoour not running any compression.... *face Palm*
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