Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
We are down with the Hiroshima Day mix. We listened on living room system with the subs. It filled the room in a good way and we felt center stage in front of a kick a$s hard rock band.
We just kicked back, turned it up, and listened to the "totality" of the song - like it had just popped up on one of our Apple Music radio stations and we knew nothing about the production.
From that perspective it sounded really good. Reference songs, a zillion opinions...yep it all helps and in particular from the well informed (without them I would've bailed years ago smile ). But as I learn more about this production thing, even when narrowed down to a specific genre, it is such a huge tent. Too much this, too little that, right or wrong, ad infinitum. It makes my head spin.
And as Al alluded to it's never finished...just abandoned.
Pardon the old phart ramble.
Bud

Thank you Bud,
A good ramble is always the best preamble.
It seems the consensus is the the Hiroshima Day Mix, (fj, you two, Al, Misha), and I'm with that too. I was being nudged to "fill the gaps" sonically & in the arrangement at another place and followed through on the reccos to hear the result. That's the Warmer mix. I can hear, in my head, a slightly glassy reverb of a mastered version and that'll need some of the fragile top end and space of the consensus version.
I'll get tired of trying soon enough, do something spontaneously and send it for mastering before living with it long enough and will then wear the results...it's almost always that way with me.

Cheers
rayc
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