Song dedicated to Mom - need mix critiques.

UnderTheGroove · 17th August 2006, 09:20 PM

My mom is getting married and asked me to write her a song as a wedding gift. So this is what my songwriting partner (the vocalist) and I came up with. Since this has a lot of meaning, I thought I would get some opinions on the mix. I'd like to get some constructive criticism of anything that could be done better. Thanks for checking it out!

Color My World

not_so_new · 17th August 2006, 09:58 PM

Nice mix man. I might be tempted to add a db or two to the vocals and maybe do a little more viding of the lead vox, some words are pretty low.

A little tip to help here, take your monitor level WAY down to the point where you can just hear the music and make your vocal rides at that level. Anything that is too loud will stick out like a cactus plant on a beach and anything that is too soft will get swallowed up in the mix pretty quickly.

Again, nice tones and mix, good song too..

polishpunker · 17th August 2006, 10:16 PM

Mix is really good. Song is really good...my friend and I are writing in this style of music now. I love it. One thing that could give this song a more powerful feel. Change the 1st two measures of drums. A big crash/kick hit on beat one for the first measure. On the second measure do a build up on the snare/floor tom/kick drum (1+2+3+) then a snare fill on 4 +. Thats the way I hear the song. It will bring it into the chorus a lot better. But I say again...catchy song, really really pretty. I like the strings in the middle. Nothing bad about this song at all. Keep it up.

UnderTheGroove · 18th August 2006, 09:07 PM

Thanks for the input. I'm going to make some tweaks.

polishpunker · 20th August 2006, 05:09 AM

Can you put up another mp3 after you make the tweaks? I would like to here how it came out.

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17th August 2006, 09:20 PM	#1
UnderTheGroove Gear interested Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 13	Song dedicated to Mom - need mix critiques. My mom is getting married and asked me to write her a song as a wedding gift. So this is what my songwriting partner (the vocalist) and I came up with. Since this has a lot of meaning, I thought I would get some opinions on the mix. I'd like to get some constructive criticism of anything that could be done better. Thanks for checking it out! Color My World

17th August 2006, 09:58 PM	#2
not_so_new Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,590	Nice mix man. I might be tempted to add a db or two to the vocals and maybe do a little more viding of the lead vox, some words are pretty low. A little tip to help here, take your monitor level WAY down to the point where you can just hear the music and make your vocal rides at that level. Anything that is too loud will stick out like a cactus plant on a beach and anything that is too soft will get swallowed up in the mix pretty quickly. Again, nice tones and mix, good song too.. __________________ Michael

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17th August 2006, 10:16 PM	#3
polishpunker Gear interested Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bethlehem, PA Posts: 13	Mix is really good. Song is really good...my friend and I are writing in this style of music now. I love it. One thing that could give this song a more powerful feel. Change the 1st two measures of drums. A big crash/kick hit on beat one for the first measure. On the second measure do a build up on the snare/floor tom/kick drum (1+2+3+) then a snare fill on 4 +. Thats the way I hear the song. It will bring it into the chorus a lot better. But I say again...catchy song, really really pretty. I like the strings in the middle. Nothing bad about this song at all. Keep it up.

18th August 2006, 09:07 PM	#4
UnderTheGroove Gear interested Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 13	Thanks for the input. I'm going to make some tweaks.

20th August 2006, 05:09 AM	#5
polishpunker Gear interested Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bethlehem, PA Posts: 13	Can you put up another mp3 after you make the tweaks? I would like to here how it came out.