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"Blisters" Mix Feedback please :)
Hi! Fun song here, looking for some mix feedback (short song haha). Thanks so much!
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Dude, this is awesome! I’m listening on headphones at the moment and will check it out in the studio tomorrow, but it sounds sick in the headphones! Great work! So much fun ear candy and arranging, it’s got booty and sparkle, the singer sounds great, and it’s a killer song – sounds like a hit! I’ll give this another listen on the bigs when I get a chance.
Only thing that stood out to me is I really wanted a loud, chunky, 8th-note, no-accent tambourine during the section at 1:35 (post-chorus?) to give it a lift and some party energy for that section.
Who’s the artist? Did u produce and co-write too? Bravo! 👏
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Sweet! Thanks Dana. I’ll try the Tambo thing. and yes, produce and co-write as well
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Sick, man – great work!
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Thanks fam!
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sorry 😅
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Haha – all good!
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Hi Michael!
I really enjoyed that! Not much to add in terms of critique from me! Just wanted to chime in and say that I feel like that mix rocks so hard! I hope to be able to achieve the clarity in my mixes like that sometime in the future! The balance of the instruments and the frequencies and all the sounds you got are so great!
When the snare drum came in with that dark tone that hit me as being a bit weird sonically, but then you filtered it up to unveil the regular sound, very interesting and cool!
Keep them hits coming! 🔥
JLew
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Thanks Jesse! Appreciate you giving it a listen
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Michael,
I think the MP community is largely sleeping on this song. I think it’s a well constructed, intelligent pop song. As the kids say, “Hooky as A to the double F.” Do the kids still talk like that or not? Nonetheless, there’s a lot of good to grab hold of here.
The arrangement grows organically from simple guitar and voice to the full blown angst of the female protagonist. The story unfolds in accessible words and layers of instruments. Gorgeous BGVs in the arrangement, perfectly layered in. So well done. I like the use of stops and starts to build the song to a dramatic peak chorus. The dynamics of the song work well throughout
My mix feedback is the following. I wish you had a real drummer to match the dynamics.. The loop works for fleshing out the song but the aggressiveness that works later seemingly overwhelmed the intro when you went to the half time filtered sounds. The half time feel was the right instinct but the low passed kick / snare was too jarring for my ear. I took an aggressive approach to Ringo- the-drummer’s entrance. (See the attached remix.)
I dropped the bass player during the bridge (1:51) to create a bigger mood swing. (8th notes on the bass is just lazy after grooving hard) The tempo becomes driven by the low frequency syncopated (one, two and three and four) toms. Interesting and more audible. Bass fades back in for the end of the bridge to help build the drama into the big stop at (2:22)
The gems uncovered at (2:25) are my biggest observation. Underneath the bass and guitars was a gigantic hole for the tom fill to drive through, clearing the musical muck away for the vocal to be intelligible, then the bass to drop HARD on the 1 leading into the re-entrance of the guitar and out we go. That’s how I heard it.
YMMV depending on your vehicle. Mine has two bumper stickers, one says ” Less is more and more is better.” The other one says “The aliens are here to help.” That’s how the adults talk.
PT
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Thanks for the feedback! There is live drums haha, I’m playing. Looking forward to listening to your remix!
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Michael,
My handiwork is just above Blisters to MP.
Stem separations into all vocals, all bass guit, all drums/perc and all others instruments lumped together.That gives me some degree of flexibility to rethink arrangements.
PT
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Michael,
The more I listen the more I love this pop gem. It led me to this even newer interpretation.
The BGV and Ooh loh ohs were so stereo in the vocal stem separation I derived that I could separate the middle from the sides and grab a hold of them and make ’em a little louder where I thought they could shine. Mid side processing with a +4 dB shelf on the sides only and the Oh oh ohs were easy to extract and be made louder. I would love your or anybody’s thoughts on the arrangement/mix that differs from your offering. That return from the breakdown at 2:22 is just so much cleaner, accessible, and powerful to my ear. Can you dig it?
PT
Obviously, I have a bunch of free time.
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