Love, love, LOVE!!! This is so good for so many reasons, Paul!! The song and performance are great, the sounds are clean and clear and punchy and have a great sense of space and vibe, and the dad-son combo is the icing on the beautiful “stuff that really matters in life” cake! 🍰
“Gentle Weezer” 😂 – great observation, @shimmerisland! I love Weezer and Rivers’ solo “demos” albums are an absolute treat if you haven’t heard them. Working w them on their Red Album was one of my fav experiences as an engineer. They’re all so smart and fun and hilarious.
@-PT you know I was hearing all kinds of fun little bonus earcandy add-ons to lift diff sections lolol, but I absolutely appreciate this as it is – capturing a performance of great song played live by a great band! (That bass riff towards the end?! I was all, “woah!”)
My only mix curiosity that I would be keen to try if I were playing around with it would be to try muting the general room reverb to see what it’s like if the vocal and “regular rhythm instruments” are bone dry, vocal right upfront, no sauce; and the only saucy surprise would be those killing slide guitar parts that have the strong echo/verb on them. Basically, just upping the ante on the contrast btwn dry AF and surprisingly-verbed-out solo guitar riffs.
And there’s a good chance I’d try that and then be like, “nah, it was cool as it was”. But I would at least try it and see. 🥰
PS – looks like the tags on this thread disappeared! I was excited to see some clever/irreverant comedy gold, @JLew!