"Marquette County Line" - with HORNS

[Barry Seymour]

This is new territory for me; I've never mixed horns before. Any feedback would be welcome.

I know the solos need work - I've asked them for a few more takes. I'm asking about the mixing.

Thanks!

 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Barry Seymour

[KSband]

There is so much reverb/delay on the guitar that it's hard to tell what is happening with the mix. 

[Barry Seymour]

1 hour ago, KSband said:

There is so much reverb/delay on the guitar that it's hard to tell what is happening with the mix. 

I originally recorded this without horns. I'll back it off and see if it helps clean things up.

 

[Leadfoot]

Love the lyric! Sounds like a good ol boogie song! The mix sounds pretty good to me. A couple things I would do is bump the rhythm guitars up by about a half a dB, and give the lead guitar a little high mid, then you might need to cut the lead track by a half to one dB after bumping the high mid. 

[Bajan Blue]

Hi Barry - sounds pretty good - only thing I would say is that to me the bass sounded a bit boxy  - might well have been my system, who knows!!

Otherwise all cool

Nigel

 

[Barry Seymour]

FINALLY. This was a big one for me.

 

[DeeringAmps]

Much enjoyed Barry! As always, great storytelling.

?'s ?

I'm guessing these are shots from back in the day?

t

one little crit, you're overdoing the drive a bit on the one guitar (the mid-rangey strat?)

[SUPAREELS]

Tight and IMO good mix .. If I was listening live I'd have no crits ... slapping me hands like girl and laughing ...I guess I like it a lot ?

Steve

[Barry Seymour]

20 hours ago, DeeringAmps said:

Much enjoyed Barry! As always, great storytelling.

?'s ?

I'm guessing these are shots from back in the day?

t

one little crit, you're overdoing the drive a bit on the one guitar (the mid-rangey strat?)

Too late! It's out!  I turned it up to 11. ?

And yeah, those pix are from FIFTY YEARS AGO. ?
 

Edited January 3, 2023 by Barry Seymour

[Barry Seymour]

6 hours ago, Supa Reels said:

Tight and IMO good mix .. If I was listening live I'd have no crits ... slapping me hands like girl and laughing ...I guess I like it a lot ?

Steve

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know. Gave me a chuckle.

 

[PhonoBrainer]

I feel like I've been in that band. Lyrics great, vocals great, horn lines work a treat. Are the horns going into a plate reverb? They sound smooth up top, very very nice.

Here's hoping you get your lottery reunion.

cheers,

-Tom

 

[Jesse Screed]

F and F

got dang

a little

 

who did that hornsssszzzzz

iz u ok?

 

awwawawawawawwa

elvis li8ves11!!

 

do't let htem tkea ur cajobalz

this is fuxxicki ng

oxxen

[Barry Seymour]

On 1/3/2023 at 8:22 PM, PhonoBrainer said:

I feel like I've been in that band. Lyrics great, vocals great, horn lines work a treat. Are the horns going into a plate reverb? They sound smooth up top, very very nice.

Here's hoping you get your lottery reunion.

cheers,

-Tom

 

Thanks!

I had two horn players who tracked their parts at home; the alto sax player did his bit, then I tweaked and fixed it where needed. Then the trumpet player played his three parts using that as a reference track. I have them all on separate tracks but they're going through one bus, which I applied compression. I centered all the horns but then used a free plugin called 'wider' to give it a sort of faux separation; it gives the horns a more intimate, unified feel, oddly enough.

[steve@baselines.com]

Absolutely incredible - brought back so many memories of my own...not the least of which was that $20 on the table after lugging home equipment at 3AM.  Thanks for a great thing.

[Jesse Screed]

had to listen again

AAAOOOWWWWWWWW

honky tonkin

 

word

how can you afford to pay all those horn player?

 

Lordy

oh man

cut in any key!

 

3 am

doot doot doot

[Barry Seymour]

Thank you! These are all musicians from my high school rock band. A bassist, a sax player and a trumpeter. For the next song we're adding another trumpet player and an actual drummer.