Tired original alternative rock song

[PavlovsCat]

An alternative rock song I wrote called "Tired." Despite the title, the track has a good deal of energy. As always, I appreciate constructive criticism and mixing advice from the community. 
 

 

[PhonoBrainer]

Kinda Beatles with the saturated vocal and psychadelic chord changes. Really quite good! Not much to crit, maybe occasionally the high synth line steps on the vocal a little bit, as in 1:18. I loved the organ fill coming in around 1:54, perfect in the mix.

Maybe the vocal could be saturated but also a bit less dry? Is there any reverb or delay on it? It might match the surrounding instruments a bit more? I dunno. It's a really good mix, things sound great. 

Cool song!

cheers,

-Tom

 

 

[PavlovsCat]

8 hours ago, PhonoBrainer said:

Kinda Beatles with the saturated vocal and psychadelic chord changes. Really quite good! Not much to crit, maybe occasionally the high synth line steps on the vocal a little bit, as in 1:18. I loved the organ fill coming in around 1:54, perfect in the mix.

Maybe the vocal could be saturated but also a bit less dry? Is there any reverb or delay on it? It might match the surrounding instruments a bit more? I dunno. It's a really good mix, things sound great. 

Cool song!

cheers,

-Tom

 

 

Thanks for the kind words and the helpful suggestions. I'm definitely going to try doing different things to the vocal. There's an effect chain on the vocal -- using ezMix. I never even thought about trying to mix the vocal like the rest of the instruments, although they're a bit of a mix. Because they're all sample libraries and I got to around 32 tracks, I wasn't using much in the way of effects  beyond what's built into KONTAKT and I used Guitar Rig on some of the guitar sample libraries. I threw ezMix on the lead vocal, Antares Duo on a duplicate of that and then another instance of ezMix for the harmony vocal on the final chorus. I really don't know much about mixing and used Ozone's AI for mastering. 

[mark skinner]

 Peter , Great song ! A couple of tweaks and you'll have this one nailed. But I think it's Fantastic the way it sits and have no crits or valuable suggestions .  This sounds like Tom Petty and Peter D  joined the Beatles.      Enjoyed it ..   mark

[KSband]

Really like your song, great work! Lot's of tasty details in there.  Good hook too. 

[Bajan Blue]

Hi - this is a really good track - love it as it is!!

Cool

Nigel