Hello Girls: 90 %
Monday, February 08, 2010 4:47:56 PM
So I've spent some time with it, and as I've decided that "finished is always better than perfect", here's a 90% mixdown of Hello Girls 2010.
Comments are welcome, especially the kind that goes "Yeah, you need to fix A by doing B, m'key?"
Stuff that I've noticed myself is:
- Sloppy timing on the vocals, should be fairly simple to fix in Record
- Perhaps a tad heavy on the ducking
- Climax is anticlimatic
- Previous point perhaps because of too heavy master channel compression
- After the first listen-through on the MacBook-speakers, I can say that there's definitely too heavy handed master compression, you can hear the bass stabline totally drowning when other elements are introduced. Fixing is added to the TODO-list.
I've got under one week (unless I decide to give myself an extension and clean stuff up using Melodyne) to finish the whole project, and all in all it's coming along "OK". I have the cover art "finished", at least a rough version which is probably more than good enough (for being used as small versions on Spotify and iTunes).
Here's the song and the cover idea:
Have a listen if you have the time and give me some pointers. 