Originally Posted by B.D.Thomas
Admit it, that's a trick question to get us to listen to your song smile
That's a really good song, full of energy and with a very catchy chorus.
Just this tremolo guitar and how you use the synth pad alone make it already worth listening to.
Excellent!

If you _really_ insist of having a nitpicking feedback, it would be the tremolo guitar (which, together with the vocals, is actually the best part of this song), but it has to fight too much with the drums, bass, and vocals in the center.
I wouldn't put the tremolo directly on the guitar, but rather send the guitar sound to an FX channel where the tremolo is added, and pan the guitar to 1 o'clock and the FX channel with the tremolo to 11 o'clock (or even a bit wider).
The FX channel probably needs a delay (approx. 30 ms) and some EQ to improve the separation of the two channels.

But that's really nitpicking because you asked for it grin

B.D., THANK YOU for the listen and for making me smile. smile No, this wasn't a trick, but I'm beginning to understand that I need to continue to grow as a listener, and the feedback from this post is helping me with that. The mix still sounds a bit wonky to me though.

Your comment on the tremolo guitar is absolutely valid and in line with what I originally planned to do. But after recording the scratch track, I became enamored with how musical the improvised take sounded, and how well it served the song, even though it was (and still is) very, VERY raw. I don't get that on every single guitar take, so I decided to embrace it. What you're hearing is the stereo take from the modeling amp panned slightly left with a stereo delay/reverb to spread the sound a LITTLE across the stereo field. Not perfect by your standards or mine, but...gosh, I still like it a lot. Go figure.

I've made a note on your FX chain recommendations for future reference. smile

Last edited by DC Ron; Yesterday at 04:07 PM.
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