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Originally Posted by brandondrury
I'm not sure if the bass guitar is really adding anything in this particular case. In non-drum situation, the bass has to add more mood to the tune. In a drum situation, the bass can get away with just hitting root notes to fill out the bottom.
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Yeah i had some trouble with the bass. First off, i certainly wasn't hitting root notes. The bass was actually fast and i've attached the bass track sample so you can see what i mean. When soloed, the bass sounded pretty high range for what kind of sounds most people create with bass tracks. I think your right about the low end of the guitar being the reason i had trouble/confliction
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Originally Posted by brandondrury
Have you used any compression? I'd DEFINITELY put a compressor on the vocal, bass, and maybe the guitar too (the guitar is trickier). I wouldn't be shy about hitting the vocal fairly aggressively.
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YES! I sing LOUD! there was a heavy compressor on the vocals and i had thought it worked out okay. My biggest trouble when mixing this was getting the right volume for the vocals throughout the whole song with compression, individual clip gains, and the right master volume. I know nothing about bass and guitar compression although i did put a mild threshold on both of them.
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Originally Posted by brandondrury
Was this all tracked live? I'm not big on the way the acoustic jumps out at times. While a LITTLE dynamics is a great thing, this gets into "chaos" level.
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No this was not tracked live. As for the guitar dynamics, i think what your saying just reinforces the fact that i have level issue.
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Originally Posted by brandondrury
The vocals aren't bad, but I'd probably want a little something on them in terms of ambiance. Even if you want the dry sound, I would intentionally soak the thing in reverb or delay (on the short side) and then start pulling it back until you aren't sure if the effect is on there or not but you miss the effect if you mute.
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I had a compressor, equalizer (to take off the highs), mild chorus, and reverb (again, mild). I know exactly what you mean by slowly taking the effect off until it's almost unnoticeable. That's actually what i did, but overall i was looking for a dry, yet w**m sound.