How do you like my mixes and mastering?

[flober1970]

That's my 1st album.

I did by myself, the composition (some 15 years old), arrangements, piano, drums, percussions, sax, mix and mastering.

My friend is a guitar player and as he was working full time, it took us about 2 years too complete the guitar and piano recordings, simultaneously in a live condition. We played over prerecorded midi arrangements.

After that, we watched each other, as we live in Beijing, it is not easy to find musicians, we decided to learn bass and drums!
He would take the bass, as he is used with strings and I the drums.
We also recorded them simultaneously.

Took us an other year and a half to finish all the recordings.

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comments are welcome.

[lacerta]

very good! songs sound pretty damn good. i like the music also, i found myself zoning out to it for a bit. the only thing i have to say sound wise is the drums could sound more acoustic, less v-drum. and more roomy in my opinion. everything was relatively pretty up front on the songs i listened to, i think giving the drums a little distance in the mix would sound cool and add some extra dimension. more air maybe is what im tryin to say, i dunno really... but good job!

[flober1970]

Thanks for the comment.

Glad you like the music.

I have been fighting during the mix to make the drum not too shiny, I used some tape or tube distorsion on cymbals.

You might be right more air on drums would be better.

sounds a bit tight...


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