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larrykane · 24th March 2008

The gear sounds great! and Ithink it's a very neat piece.
IMHO there are musician things making the engineers job harder.
I was fishing for the groove a few seconds too long in the intro.
at 0:17 the vox phrase " nobody dies" the no of nobody sounds odd like a bad anteres formant and the phrase is not locked in rhythmically, compare it to the well done next similar phrase in the same verse. Something has to carry me the listener through and I think here the burden lies on the vocalist. at 1:02 the guitar groove drifts away from the bass (or bass tone if it's not a traditional bass)
Engineer thing-at 1:38 "we as a people" gets kinda hot.
Although it didn't strike me until 2:30(ish) the left side hand drum is either a tiny bit hot or dry or panned too hard.
Alternatively, I think you could ignore all this and just add another rhythmic locked in guitar part to carry the listener from beginning to end.

24th March 2008	#29
larrykane Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2008 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 547	The gear sounds great! and Ithink it's a very neat piece. IMHO there are musician things making the engineers job harder. I was fishing for the groove a few seconds too long in the intro. at 0:17 the vox phrase " nobody dies" the no of nobody sounds odd like a bad anteres formant and the phrase is not locked in rhythmically, compare it to the well done next similar phrase in the same verse. Something has to carry me the listener through and I think here the burden lies on the vocalist. at 1:02 the guitar groove drifts away from the bass (or bass tone if it's not a traditional bass) Engineer thing-at 1:38 "we as a people" gets kinda hot. Although it didn't strike me until 2:30(ish) the left side hand drum is either a tiny bit hot or dry or panned too hard. Alternatively, I think you could ignore all this and just add another rhythmic locked in guitar part to carry the listener from beginning to end. __________________ other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?