Entertain Ourselves To Death

[JD01]

OK, here's Mix 4. Re-tracked all of the guitars, parts of the backing vocal to eliminate pops/clicks (which were actually caused by over compression).

Any tips to finish this mix off would be great.

Entertain Ourselves To Death Mix 4.mp3

[rayc]

That's a cool rework & remix James.
I've had the compression artifact pops recently - changed compressors and all was good.

[vomitHatSteve]

Lead at the beginning seems to have lost something in the new guitar tones. I'm hearing a lot of attack on those notes but not much definition on the notes themselves. You might have to side-chain it with the rhythm guitars or maybe adjust that tone a little.

[JD01]

Lead at the beginning seems to have lost something in the new guitar tones. I'm hearing a lot of attack on those notes but not much definition on the notes themselves. You might have to side-chain it with the rhythm guitars or maybe adjust that tone a little.

Yeah - I tried playing it straight, didn't like it, its a pretty weird riff so needs to sound weird too! I do like having the phaser on it, at first I think I went a bit too mental, then I dialed it back a bit, maybe I took too much of the feedback out. Cheers.

[jonny deep]

Hey JD - I like this, not really like anything else I listen to. The latest mix/retrack lets me hear the vocal a lot better - where's your Welsh accent?!

What are you using for drums?

[JD01]

where's your Welsh accent?!

What are you using for drums?

it pops out now and again! I don't have a particularly strong accent though. I lived in england for 15 years from when I was 18.

Drums are just EZ Drummer but using no effects, reverbs or compression at all from EZD and treating them all myself in Reaper.

[JD01]

OK, mix 5. Retracked lead guitar and slightly remixed vocals - Think I'm about there now

Entertain Ourselves To Death Mix 5.mp3

[musicturtle]

#5 is really good. I like this song a lot as I think I stated before. You have the vocals on this chorus down really well, even got a little growl in there. Nice work man.

[JD01]

Cheers Tony

[rayc]

James,
it's really together now.
So much so that I listened more to the whole - & thought it's a little "cold".
Do you have a warmer plug to experiment with. The PSP Vintage Warmer 2 is free and may be useful.

[JD01]

James,
it's really together now.
So much so that I listened more to the whole - & thought it's a little "cold".
Do you have a warmer plug to experiment with. The PSP Vintage Warmer 2 is free and may be useful.

Do you mean the mix as a whole or just the vocal? I suppose it would be no hassle to stick something like that on either the master buss or just the vocal buss. I don't want to go too mental with VSTs at the moment as I'm hoping to buy a new computer soon so don't want to have to reinstall millions of things. At the moment the only things I use outside standard Reaper stuff is the Focusrite RED3 compressor, EZ Drummer and the Camel Crusher. In a couple of months when I've got the old songs re-tracked I'll upgrade to Superior Drummer anyway.

[rayc]

James,
Across the stereo buss I thought.
There're free versions out there. the free one I have works 100% but the preset has to be reselected each time a project is open as well as a nag dialogue box.
It may just be me though.
https://goaudio.org/pspaudioware-psp-vi ... -download/

[JD01]

Cheers Ray - hopefully I'll get a chance to take a look at this tomorrow or, failing that, next weekend.

[vomitHatSteve]

Yep, that lead sounds a lot better now.

[JD01]

Yep, that lead sounds a lot better now.

Thanks Steve - I might have another tweak or two with this like Ray said, but its pretty much there now.

[JD01]

OK, I've also remixed this over the last few days and I'm generally pretty happy with now, if any of you could have a good listen through on something decent and given me any final pointers that would be great.

Entertain Ourselves To Death.mp3

[vomitHatSteve]

Work environment is noisy, so I can't give it a thorough listen, but it's sounding pretty good

I'll try to remember to re-listen on thursday when I work from home.

[rayc]

There seems to be a combined vocal loud spot at 0.57 "Don't care ???? offe(?) me.." The syllable after care is the loud or odd spot I think.

[WhiskeyJack]

Jdood. I am giving it a spin in the jeep whilst waiting for take out. Sounds pretty well thrown together. All the instrumentation is smooth and sotting well together. Overall i got nothing.

Was there a more aggressolive flange or phaser or something on the intro lead bit when the guitar goes off om its own in previous mixes of this song? It seems tamer than i remember.

Second listen here. I feel like what would be the prechorus backing vox sound more mushed i to the maon vocal amd sligthly more lumpy than the backing vox in the actual chorus? It could just ne how the vocal is delivered more than it is mixed but i can't really tell??

Aside from that i got nothing.

Third listen edit: as back ground music and not objectively listening while driving the snare is rather up front and driving.

Honestly nothing id go back to change unless you wanted to?

[vomitHatSteve]

A/Bing it with the previous mix. I'm not really hearing much difference. Are the bgvox a little quieter in the most recent mix? That's probably an improvement.

Really, you're probably about there. You could fine-tune it forever to increasingly-diminishing-returns.