After a summer away from the Studio finally the onset of winter has opened up some recording time. To get re-aquainted I picked up on familiar ground from a Drum track we’d laid down back in the Spring and this is the result… Yes, it’s a standard but it goes over well at our live shows so we wanted to track a clean Studio version. It’s a preliminary mix and will likely be refined later, hoping to finish off a couple of albums this winter… Now that AI does everything better than I can it kinda takes the pressure off…
Well done. Excellent interpretation of that old classic song. Just 3 instruments. Bass guitar gives a solid foundation, together with drums.
(Haha, for me it’s just the opposite, I would add more room to everything. A matter of personal taste, of course).
Ah, and I do hope AI will never be able to handle authentic blues
Compared to the 101 Eastbound from the other thread, this one sounds rather boomy/muddy to me.
Drums: did you take out the low-end on the reverb bus after the reverb plugin?
Vocals: they sound great to my ears. I wouldn’t change anything there.
Bass: I think, it’s too loud a bit.
Guitar: could use some more brightness/presence (highs) and maybe a little less low-end.
(YMMV of course)
Well while I wholeheartedly agree that 101 Eastbound sounds phenomenal why would they sound similar at all? Completely different genres, completely different historical context… Does modern metal sound like Led Zeppelin or Sabbath or vice versa. I give you full credit for doing an excellent job with your metal and hard rock productions, you have an absolutely terrific ear for that but I personally mix songs in the context of what has influenced me from (often very old) artists and recordings that I like, what you hear as mistakes are not oversights but choices… It’s a trio and the bass is really the foundation and the guitar is using the neck pickup specifically for the round tone of the humbucker… Listen to BB King or Little Milton or in a modern sense Marcus King, just like metal has it’s signature sounds so do Blues.
I always appreciate feedback and advice because we all need another pair of ears sometimes but I don’t make any mixing decisions lightly, I’m often coming from a context that has nothing to do with how contemporary music is mixed, I’m personally not really a fan of that, I feel we’ve gained a lot of potential fidelity and lost a lot of spontaneous magic in the last 40+ years… (just an opinion).
I totally agree with @GMaq. Genres are completely different, and so are the tones of the instruments required… Take the bass, in my case it’s a very crisp and bright slap tone that would make no sense on this blues song whatsoever.
All in all, I think there are no “right” or “wrong” sounds, there are sounds that fit or don’t fit a context.
@slash Everybody would have mixed it differently… Look at me and @peter.zenk for instance, we would have gone in opposite directions!
