New song!

K Odell

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Jan 23, 2006
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I feel like I am getting a little better at this slowly. I havent really gotten a chance to listen to this much after mixdown, but any opinions or advice is always awesome bc well you guys know a ton that I definantly do not.:rock:

www.soundclick.com/jayum
 
I'm guessing guitars are POD or gearbox? sounds like it

tone sounds good and works, but I'd give it a tad less gain for it to sound a bit less gearbox-ish and a bit rawer/more natural

I feel the bass sounds a tad too... bassy/round, a bit more bite wouldn't hurt... oh, and the guitars are too low in the mix

snare sounds too dark, IMO

just my opinion, and all of it sounds much worse than it actually is, overall, good job! :)
 
The second guitar parts are lost in the background, guitars in general need to come up. I agree that the bass need a little more definition too. Sounding good man...
 
Thanks guys. I am slowly getting the grasp of this stuff. It is indeed a pod. Its the POD X3. Cant really record an amp right now due to being in a small neighborhood.
 
I think I'm picking up on some of the phonetic humor in your handles. If that's the case, "Jayum" is funny as hell.

Everyone hears differently and I wouldn't qualify myself as knowing a ton.. but here's my take.

The snare has ballz, but my brain wishes for a little more airy-ness/snap/crack/top end on these headphones. The snare kinda reminds me of the sample Swano used as a replacement on the first Bloodbath LP (I think he said it was an Alesis drum machine snare? I dunno). I still like your snare tho.

The snare, when more by itself, has a lot of verb. If you're not already, I'd recommend figuring out a way in your setup (envelope/automation) to not have the reverb be so present during the harder/busier parts where you don't really hear the reverb anyway and it just would muddy the mix more... This would especially be useful if you find yourself reverbing the snare like that on other songs/projects. it all adds up.

My brain also wants a tad less buzzy/fuzzy frequencies on the guitars and more (even if only by way of cutting the fuzz a tad) of the frquencies that are musical and convey the notes being played. With the fuzziness there, I kinda feel like I'm chewing a rubber band when you play really low notes.. but some of that's a matter of (musical) taste.

Your mix definately has a nice overall "warm" feel... which is something I'm trying to do with my mixes these days as well.

I wish the bass were a little more than a chord-rooter.. but that's a matter of arrangment and (as always) taste.

The guitar twiddly ambience at 1:04 is the shit. Works beautiful as the "B" idea in your composition. Real good work that you've started.
Definantly making fun of the people who like to say "man them boys JAYUM!!!!" Shit cracks me up. Anyways thanks for the input. I can never seem to find a happy area where I have just enough pop in the snare and also just enough bottom end to give it some thickness. But I really dig this one I guess haha.