MikeTalbot wrote:Scott
Not so much a bad mix - more like no mix - I honestly didn't even realize there was a vocal till late in the game. Kind of liked the tune though.
As the worst recording guy in this galactic quadrant I don't think you have to take any criticism from me too seriously though.
There is a reason I haven't posted any new music - I should be shot for taking God given song writing skills and turning out sh*t that would have gotten me the hook in simpler times. Everything I record sounds like mush - good gear, fine instruments, good songs - asshole trying to record. there ought to be a law...
Talbot
LOL Just why do think I team up with others>?
Surely not because I need help writing my own material(s), it's because my mixing and mastering in a word, "sucks".
You find people of a like ear and work with them or someone that their music is tolerable to your palette.
I gravitate to keys players because they generally know what I am talking about with little explanation.
I gravitate to people who can mix and master well. The proof is always in the pudding.
Sure I dabble a little bit production-wise but I find outside in the cold, most good artists can create readily. They cannot however, mix and master. (The hardest thing to find are keys players, followed by good bass players. Guitarists and drummers are a dime a dozen. Vocalists are like a bad sandwich; the more talent they have, the more sh*t you have to eat.)
If you've written something you want to record, I suggest you look to see who can help you that is close by as the hours go by very quickly and paying for someone to help is a terrible joke of the worst variety.
The best help you'll ever get is from someone who is what you are not strong in and likes what you are doing without trying to change your music for something that they like better than what you are doing currently.
It's kind of rare, but it's possible.
Later on, the producers know better than to stick their greasy fingers in your mix unless they want to lose one or more.
"Don't f**k with the artist and no one has to get hurt" lol
And for the record, I take all criticisms seriously...fair or unfair, "it is what it is". The only thing you can ever ask is that they tell you "what they really feel about the work in question".
