Indie Rock, The strokes-ish kinda mix, critique please?

Zinc-house · 27th March 2009

Here's a track ive just produced and mixed. im quite new to this genre so opinions/critique would be great.

Thanks Guys.

Rich.

TBarrnes · 27th March 2009

Cool song. Who is the group? I love it.
Drums sound nice and snappy. I am not listening on my studio monitors, so I might not be hearing the whole picture.
Tell about the recording chain....What did you use on the guitars? What amps? Where is the band out of?
I would definitely buy it.

Zinc-house · 27th March 2009

thanks barrnes! glad you like it, the band is called Fennel seeds from north wales, Uk. they're a new band. First time recording. Pretty damn good band tho!

The guitar chain was a fender tele into orange Ad 30 mic'ed with a single sm57. Left guitar channel had a maxon od9 tubescreamer infront of it also. mic pre was a focusrite isa428.

TBarrnes · 27th March 2009

Cool!
I loaded it into my ipod!

warmer · 27th March 2009

cool track, and you can hear a welsh accent in there. vocal capture sounds just right for the track.

Zinc-house · 27th March 2009

Cheers Man. Anyone else got any opinions?

ldosiecki · 27th March 2009

Overall I think it was well done. Great job

A couple small details that I heard - (These are just my opinions, you might hear something different.)

The acoustic guitar in the intro has a little too much string noise. That could have been just the guitar itself or you might have miked it too close to the neck of the guitar.

From a production standpoint I think it sounds a little empty. More held out melodic vocal harmonies would fill it out nicely I think. I did like how non-overproduced it sounds though. That gives a great natural vibe.

Mixing wise - I thought the drums were a little bit too up front and the guitar tracks were too far in the back.

Zinc-house · 27th March 2009

Thanx for the crit.
I agree about the harmonies, but the band were adamant to keep it as natural as possible. The non-overproduced vibe was exactly what we were going for. Was abit of a change for me as the projects i usually work on have big and polished productions.
i did try to bring the drums down a touch while mixing, but the song just didnt seem to drive or punch the way i wanted it to when they were lower.

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27th March 2009	#2
TBarrnes Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 91	Cool song. Who is the group? I love it. Drums sound nice and snappy. I am not listening on my studio monitors, so I might not be hearing the whole picture. Tell about the recording chain....What did you use on the guitars? What amps? Where is the band out of? I would definitely buy it.

27th March 2009	#3
Zinc-house Gear Head Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wales, UK Posts: 35 Thread Starter	thanks barrnes! glad you like it, the band is called Fennel seeds from north wales, Uk. they're a new band. First time recording. Pretty damn good band tho! The guitar chain was a fender tele into orange Ad 30 mic'ed with a single sm57. Left guitar channel had a maxon od9 tubescreamer infront of it also. mic pre was a focusrite isa428.

27th March 2009	#5
warmer Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London, UK Posts: 600	cool track, and you can hear a welsh accent in there. vocal capture sounds just right for the track.

27th March 2009	#7
ldosiecki Gear interested Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Madison Posts: 7	Overall I think it was well done. Great job A couple small details that I heard - (These are just my opinions, you might hear something different.) The acoustic guitar in the intro has a little too much string noise. That could have been just the guitar itself or you might have miked it too close to the neck of the guitar. From a production standpoint I think it sounds a little empty. More held out melodic vocal harmonies would fill it out nicely I think. I did like how non-overproduced it sounds though. That gives a great natural vibe. Mixing wise - I thought the drums were a little bit too up front and the guitar tracks were too far in the back.