My first soft rock song - Mix inputs please!

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  1. krp msuic

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    Hey everyone, heres the song https://voca.ro/19dwQlrwC5KU

    what do yall think? il be tracking vocals tomorrow
     
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    It sounds nice.
     
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    Hello @krp music, thank you for this beautiful song.
    Truly beautifully instrumented with a lot of love and heart. Every instrument really shines, stress-free music.

    You are clearly a very talented and creative musician. Keep it up!
     
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    Thanks!
     
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    Thank you so so much pulsewave! i forgot to add the electric guitar part in the previous thread, please check the main post now to listen one more time i added the guitars!! im really excited about this one... my first soft rock track in a long time... thanks again! btw i hope u heard the last one that i was cooking its live now on spotify searcheable as "bhangra swag krp"
     
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    smooth. then it gets kind of hard rockish.
     
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    Melikesit ! :like:...has a bit of 'Sting' vibe to my ears. I can just imagine his vocals coming in.

    ...mix sounds nice and clean to me. That first little percussive pop sounds a bit loud till the rest of the instruments start. Maybe a bit heavy on the distortion on guitar???....but i always say that a mix is personal taste so i would go with how you feel.
     
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    if this would be my song i would :

    -use less distortion
    -double the overdrive guitars, pan left and right,
    -work/fix the solo, play it in the right key, tune guitar.
    -work on the song to be more lively
    -mix later
     
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    When I read Sting I didn't think of the musician, I thought of the film The Sting I saw with my Grandpa at our local cinema.
     
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    Me too minus the Grandpa!
     
  12. mino45

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    I mostly agree with these. I think for my taste it is too much distortion in the second part. The contrast is too big. If you dial back on the distortion a bit, the whole piece will become more consistent and it will fit better into the soft-rock category as a whole.

    The bass notes are off around 1m and 2m20s. The emphasis is on the passing notes instead of the notes that are in the scale I think.

    For my taste, you should try to fill the stereo spectrum more consistently. There are parts where 90% of the sound is coming from the left speaker and the right is basically silent. I would suggest to mix more center to sides instead of left to right. Especially doubling your guitars left and right can help to get a mix that is full and more consistent when it comes to the stereo spectrum.
    As a general rule of thumb, you don't want the overall loudness levels to be vastly different between the left and right channel, the mix as a whole should stay more or less "centered".
    Rather than dropping the right channel and moving everthing to the left, drop the sides and move everything to the center.
     
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