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Hi Tom - Thank you for listening and commenting. I believe you listened to the original post last night. I uploaded a new version shortly after your comments. Interesting comment on the piano and drums. I wish I had more control over the piano, but it was recorded live on a real piano. I was having trouble getting it to be more present on the recorded track as more of a Lead instrument. Adding more reverb would have only pushed it back in the mix more. I like the tone of the drums, so I didn't really want to mess with them. Is what it is, I guess, unless we retrack the piano. The song does really kick into a nice groove at the Solo section of the song and seems to carry on to the end. In my view, its all performance. Its like the band hit a nice pocket and stayed in it from there on out. I like the arrangement as is, however.
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Gary - I much appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this mix. The left guitar seems to have gotten much notice. I am not sure why exactly. It's my ES-335 through a familiar amp setting for me, on many of our tunes. I will try changing it up a bit and see if that helps. I didn't really mix this song for a long period of time, but the song has been in the works for several months, waiting on my band members to finish tracking their respective tracks. I will take the Beatlish as a compliment! ?
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Wookie - Thanks for your comments brother. Yes, this intro is really different for us. It is definitely an odd mixture between overdriven guitar tone and clean piano. I found it oddly interesting. I will mess around a little with re-amping my left channel electric guitar tone, maybe a different amp or less overdrive will help bring them together in a more pleasing way.
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Mark - Thank you for listening and commenting. Starting with the drums, bass and lead vocal, then bringing everything else up to the correct level around them, is pretty much how I have mixed for the last 25 years. I'm sure with some relatively minor tweaks, this mix will be up to the level of our typical songs.
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Nigel - Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this song. I will play around some more with the guitar track on the left. It was the original instrument track that was the basis for the song. Seems like in different ways, it is bothering everyone in one way or another. Maybe slightly lower in volume will solve that problem. Maybe try a few different things.
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David- Thank you for listening and commenting brother. The Beatles were a huge influence on me in my early life, so they tend to find their way into most of my music. I had many influences of course, but they were a foundation. I liked the piano track that Reece came up with as well. I found it quite interesting playing against the electric guitars. It reminded me of "rain" in the way that he played the part at the beginning and then reentering at the end.
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Jack- Thank you for listening and commenting. I will take this into consideration.
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It a Rickenbacker 4003
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Nice song. Seems like the drums could come up a bit.
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I have also very much picked up a U2 vibe. Great work all around. I particularly love the drums, well done. The video is very professional and ads a lot to the song. Nice job, Nigel!
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A new Scandalous Grace song with the band. Let me know what you think of this mix. Performed by Scandalous Grace Words & Music: Michael Hanson Sean Peifer: BG Vox, Electric Rhythm, Guitar Solo. Michael Hanson: Lead Vocal, Bass, Electric Rhythm, Drum Programming, Mixing and mastering. Reece Bain: Keys and BGVs. https://soundcloud.com/michaeljhanson/rain-31
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Actually, I think they have earned the right to play Live as long as they would like. I’ve thought about switching to a completely Blues genre. Nobody seems to question the ability of old Blues guys to perform their art. In fact, they seem to acquire more respect as they age. At my age, could I start up a Blues artist career.......well.....Dream On.
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Fred - Thank you for listening and commenting! Just for clarification, there is not any delay on the acoustic guitar tracks. There are two separate acoustic tracks recorded independently, a true double track. Both are panned about 50-60% left and right, with no plug ins added, only a little EQ to taste. Any reverb is from the room that Sean recorded the acoustic guitar in. It could be that the slight variations between the 2 tracks comes across as delay, but it is actually double tracking.
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Treesha - Thank you for listening again and confirming the improvements to the mix; that is a huge help.
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I have tweaked the Lead Vocals slightly on this song and posted a new mix at the same link above. Basically, I changed reverbs to something that I feel sounds a little clearer. I also tweaked EQ just a touch to in an effort to make the Lead Vocal more understandable. Hopefully....this version is an improvement. Let me know your thoughts.
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You are a New World Man! The photo makes me a little Gi(e)ddy.
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Very nice vocal! Just a tad hot for me, it could sit down in the mix just a bit. Also just slightly more reverb than I prefer, but that is a personal preference.
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You have succeeded in the perfect feel for.... "evil clown". Well done!
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rowdy new tune-"The Day They Robbed the Bank of England"
michaelhanson replied to bats brew's topic in Songs
I'm listening, thinking this sounds like typical Bat production....waiting for the vocals....waiting. I'm slow sometimes but it took me a while to figure out that this was an instrumental. Great work, excellent mix as usual. I'm not a huge fan of instrumentals, but I made it all the way to the end of the song; which says a lot. -
I didn't take the test, but I have been tested by Audiologists half a dozen times. I have a graph that actually is charted showing me where my hearing has suffered some loss. My loss is probably due to my youth, a combination of working in a very loud factory environment and an over abundance of shooting fire arms. My Dad was an extreme outdoors man and we shot a lot while I was a teen into my early 20's. The graph pretty much depicts this, with a huge dip in the high mids. I seem to hear lower and low mids well; also not too bad in the higher range. I am 59 closing down on 60. Just this year during the pandemic, I decided to try hearing aids. Women's voices can be a challenge sometimes, even discounting selective hearing. ? Being trapped in the home for over a year, with my wife having to deal with me, I gave in and have been wearing them religiously for the last 9 months. Ed, I understand you comment about the distraction completely. Things that I don't necessarily want to hear are elevated and can become a distraction. Sometimes now my wife will say, I don't think those things are working because you seem to not hear me that well. In which I will reply, I'm sorry but that bird over there is out producing you. Overall, however, I hear much more of what she says and can hear other voices much better in that high mid range. They are terrible for playing guitar, however. Nothing sounds even close to natural. The Audiologist even has programmed several custom settings for me to use while playing guitar, in an effort to make the tone more natural. They are better, but still don't sound great. I have been using them while mixing, that seems OK. I treat them as another system to check audio mixes. I will take them out to hear the mix and put them back in to see what the mix sounds like; similar to testing on different speakers and systems.
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Hi David- Thank you for coming back and giving it another listen. That's really good to know that this time you were able to make out the lyrics. This song was written and sung by Sean Peifer, one of our founding members of the band. Sean has an excellent voice! If this was myself singing, you would probably say..."hey, you sound a lot like Petty." Sean often asks me to do the mixing for his songs, as I think he really just prefers to write and play on the songs and not get into the production headaches that go with each piece. I love the mixing process, so I look forward to working on his songs.
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Hey Paul- Thank you greatly for listening and commenting. Really happy to hear that you liked the song. Sean's guitar solo work is always stellar and I am a huge fan of his playing. This is his song, but I know he always makes the songs that I have written better, just by the work he does on electric guitar.
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Hi Treesha- Thank you for the listen and comments. I think it's always a challenge when a song goes from single instrument to full band, in and out, through out a song. When we go full band, not every instrument can be as intimate as it was on its own. You are correct, the acoustic riff plays through out the song, but is less intimate as full band comes in. In fact, it may be the Bass that your hearing during full band, as the Bass line mimics that riff through out. I wish I knew a way to introduce the full band, without masking some of the other instruments that are also playing; even while using EQ and panning to attempt to give each its own space.
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Wookie- Thank you greatly for checking out this mix. I have played with the vocal levels a little, but have not posted a new mix. I find that I can't really raise the levels of the vocals without them getting, in my opinion, too loud. I am not a fan of the lead vocal sitting on top of a mix, but prefer it to be surrounded, to some degree, by the instrumentation. I feel like the issue may just be in the way Sean sings the lyrics so that they kind of flow together. Definitely open to more comments on the subject.