Rap:New tracks by Poet Laureatte

heathen · 20th February 2006

Anyone feel free to comment,good or bad.Waddayathink?

I did some remixes,same tracks but with some analog comps and eq.(if ur interested that is).

guerillamixer · 20th February 2006

I like PL-2.

The train wreck in PL-1 put me off a little

IMHO the beats could do with some tightening up, but if its all about
northern lights then maybe not...

heathen · 20th February 2006

Hey thanks for the comments, yeah a little more mixing is in order,I will remix the drums maybe some parrallel comping is in needed, though a bit of smoothness is what I'm after in these 2 tracks, still getting used to my new stereo output chain too. What did you mean by the train wreck though,just interested.
Anymore comments please.

guerillamixer · 21st February 2006

I mean the beat fot the second mc is out of time with the the first when it first comes in.

heathen · 23rd February 2006

Different flow I guess.Ya gotta have changes.

butterfly · 24th February 2006

Beats are nice particularly liked the second, bass sounds really tight, rap needs some really tight compressed doubles and triples.

heathen · 26th February 2006

I tried to convince him of that for these tracks but.....he's pretty keen on giving it more of a live type of flow instead of making tha vox sound too dominant and detracting from the beats as its a pretty fast track, I agree with him now too.
Was only a rough mix,sounding much better now after some avalon ad2055 eq and al smart comp on the vox and beats and some pendulum limiting on the loops.
The mic he uses is a $50 akg mic.I even gave him a rode condenser to do the vox with but he likes his akg for the dirt factor. Even the loops were tracked with the same mic carefully placed in front of his home stereo speakers(uh huh,im serious).Sounds cool eh.Though the beats are done with an akai mpc2000. We'll be getting a bass player (Craig Calhoun) to do a few lines too.
I dunno ,everything always just seems to work in the end when we finish projects,they usually sound great no matter how they were tracked.Though I do my best to convince all people who I mix and produce for to bring thier tracks sounding as clean as possible but..... Poet Laureattes tracks usually always work in the end,I just make em work.
!st album will be released in Australia in April this year ,2nd is almost finished too and will be released in October somewhere abouts on "Reverberation Records" (check website for info)
Revised mixes posted in the first post.

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20th February 2006	#2
guerillamixer Gear nut Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 139	I like PL-2. The train wreck in PL-1 put me off a little IMHO the beats could do with some tightening up, but if its all about northern lights then maybe not...

20th February 2006	#3
heathen Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,525 Thread Starter	Hey thanks for the comments, yeah a little more mixing is in order,I will remix the drums maybe some parrallel comping is in needed, though a bit of smoothness is what I'm after in these 2 tracks, still getting used to my new stereo output chain too. What did you mean by the train wreck though,just interested. Anymore comments please.

21st February 2006	#4
guerillamixer Gear nut Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 139	I mean the beat fot the second mc is out of time with the the first when it first comes in.

23rd February 2006	#5
heathen Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,525 Thread Starter	Different flow I guess.Ya gotta have changes.

24th February 2006	#6
butterfly Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: uk Posts: 1,279	Beats are nice particularly liked the second, bass sounds really tight, rap needs some really tight compressed doubles and triples.

26th February 2006	#7
heathen Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,525 Thread Starter	I tried to convince him of that for these tracks but.....he's pretty keen on giving it more of a live type of flow instead of making tha vox sound too dominant and detracting from the beats as its a pretty fast track, I agree with him now too. Was only a rough mix,sounding much better now after some avalon ad2055 eq and al smart comp on the vox and beats and some pendulum limiting on the loops. The mic he uses is a $50 akg mic.I even gave him a rode condenser to do the vox with but he likes his akg for the dirt factor. Even the loops were tracked with the same mic carefully placed in front of his home stereo speakers(uh huh,im serious).Sounds cool eh.Though the beats are done with an akai mpc2000. We'll be getting a bass player (Craig Calhoun) to do a few lines too. I dunno ,everything always just seems to work in the end when we finish projects,they usually sound great no matter how they were tracked.Though I do my best to convince all people who I mix and produce for to bring thier tracks sounding as clean as possible but..... Poet Laureattes tracks usually always work in the end,I just make em work. !st album will be released in Australia in April this year ,2nd is almost finished too and will be released in October somewhere abouts on "Reverberation Records" (check website for info) Revised mixes posted in the first post.