Cover Songs, Cover songs, home recordings |
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Cover Songs, Cover songs, home recordings |
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Aug 2 2011, 09:09 PM |
Hello,
I don't know whether this is the good topic or not, but I would like to get feedback from professionals about my guitar playing. Which areas do I have to focus on etc. I did the recordings on my own during the weekend. I am a member here for a week now and I found the site very useful and started immediately working on a legato lesson series. I am also interested in critics about the recording itself. Here you can find the songs. Feel free to comment and share them! http://soundcloud.com/mestahh/sets/feldalgoz-sok |
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Aug 3 2011, 07:34 AM |
Just some constructive criticism on the mixing/mastering and only based on a quick listen on my laptop rather than through our mastering chain- I listened to some excerpts from about 4 tracks rather than complete ones...
1/ Too much bass on all to the extent that it is booming. Also on some the bass sits too forward for the type of music/in comparison with the originals as I remember them. 2/ tracks are a bit muddy in the low mid end, 3/ tracks sound like there is some distortion/clipping. 4/ High end sounds harsh to me. 5/ too much compression and a general lack of dynamics. 6/ lack of stereo width All of these are quite common mix issues and I'd suggest that you look at how you eq and compress and in future mix on monitors rather than on headphones. Headphones do not provide an accurate enough sense of the stereo stage for mixing. Also, you really need monitors that can go down below 60Hz in order to hear and mix the bass end properly - too many mixers can't hear the bass end and over compensate ending up with too much bass. Watch the levels of instruments relative to each other. As it stands your bass is too forward in the mix and so needs to come down in level relative too all the rest. Arguably I'd also say that your vocal is too forward, to the point where it sounds more like acapella with background music. One thing you might want to try in future if you are unsure of your vocal level is to do several versions, 1 as you've here, 1 with the vocal turned down 1-3dB and one with the voc up 1-3dB and then critically listen to and evaluate them. You also need to watch your peak levels as the mixes sound to me like they distort. There are definitely a few transients that clip. Your mixes generally would benefit from correct digital gain staging. If you're unsure how to do this as a ball park starting point aim to have a final mix that peaks around -6dBFS and with an RMS of around -20dbFS. That should leave you with a mix that has dynamic range and avoids clipping. You can then increase the perceived volume at mastering if desired. This can be done through proper gainstaging and so involve minimal, if any, use of limting/compression for volume. Having said that too many mixers think that mastering is just a case of sticking a limiter on the 2 bus and pushing up the percieved volume. That isn't mastering. Mastering is less about adding a few effects etc to the 2 bus then about an objective viewpoint on the final mix along with quality control. If you are too close to the mix you cannot be objective enough to master it. To put it another way, if you mixed a track to the best of your ability and then mastered in the same studio and using the same equipment you are very unlikely to be able to hear issues and problems with the mix. If you could hear them then you would have corrected them a mixing. As an absolute minimum you should leave a final mix at least for a few days before you attempt to master it. Ideally you should get someone else to master it in a properly set up mastering studio and not a mix studio. As a general comment - there are hundreds of stories and videos of 'mixers' who claim to be able to 'mix and master' a track in a few minutes. As a professional mastering engineer it takes me around 40-60 minutes to master a single well mixed track and about 6-8 hours for an lp - and that's after years of experience. Apart from anything else I have to carefully listen to the track quite a few times before I can make any decision on what to do or quality control it. I also have to listen to it afterwards to ensure that it's quality controlled, translates and is the best I can get from it. 3 or more listens of a 5 minute track and you're already in to at least 15 minutes of studio time. The idea that you can mix and master in a few minutes... Sorry if the above sounds harsh - it's offered as constructive criticism in terms of what issues you need to address. Your mixes aren't bad but they do repeat some common mistakes. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Aug 3 2011, 03:21 PM |
it sounds like you have good timing and tempo control. Also good right hand. I think you will make great progress here since you are already on your way
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Aug 3 2011, 06:24 PM |
Your version of Pretty Woman is excellent !!
You sound like you're already very capable on the guitar... I look forward to hearing / seeing more of your playing. |
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Aug 3 2011, 08:39 PM |
Wow dude this is great stuff!!!
As Ben said, pretty woman is awesome ! haha -------------------- My Website
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Aug 4 2011, 01:16 AM |
it sounds very good to me dude, but i only have my laptop speakers now, def sounding good guitar. Pretty woman rocked!
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Aug 4 2011, 11:22 AM |
Should I also say that Pretty Woman rocks yes i do! congratz mate!
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Aug 4 2011, 12:42 PM |
Just a general comment about Soundcloud and compression for anyone using Souncloud or indeed any website that streams audio...
It's probably worth remembering that although you can upload any audio format, including waveand Apple lossless that Soundcloud will transcode the file at output to stream as a 128kbps mp3. That means it will also apply an 11:1 compression to a 24/44.1 wave and may add some internal digital summing gain and the compression might even cascade. If you come even close to digital ceiling and/or compress your audio Soundcloud will compres it more and can take it over in to clipping. If you want to use Soundcloud peak at a more conservative level and carefully consider the compression ratio on the 2 bus. Mesti - this may be part of the mix issues I commented on. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
Be friends on facebook with us here. We use professional, mastering grade hardware in our mastering studo. Our hardware includes: Cranesong Avocet II Monitor Controller, Dangerous Music Liasion Insert Hardware Router, ATC SCM Pro Monitors, Lavry Black DA11, Prism Orpheus ADC/DAC, Gyratec Gyraf XIV Parallel Passive Mastering EQ, Great River MAQ 2NV Mastering EQ, Kush Clariphonic Parallel EQ Shelf, Maselec MLA-2 Mastering Compressor, API 2500 Mastering Compressor, Eventide Eclipse Reverb/Echo. |
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