Riff of the Month (RotM) #42 - Chat

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  • steamabacussteamabacus Frets: 1258
    Entered. :bz
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2177
    Entered. :bz

    Added to playlist. That makes 8.
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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723
    edited April 2018
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2177
    edited April 2018
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.

    Your entry sounds good to me. This is just personal taste but I might have used a tad more reverb/ambience. But not too much because the dry'ish sound suits the style.

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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
    Maybe have a bit more spread with the instruments?. It’s all good tho’
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  • flying_pieflying_pie Frets: 1806
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
    Was there anything that you wanted to achieve with your track but couldn't? 
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2177
    Submission deadline is 11:30pm tonight (23rd March 2018).
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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.

    Your entry sounds good to me. This is just personal taste but I might have used a tad more reverb/ambience. But not too much because the dry'ish sound suits the style.

    Yeah I purposely had it dry to get that early Prince feel.

    poopot said:
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
    Maybe have a bit more spread with the instruments?. It’s all good tho’
    How do you spread the instruments?  EQ?  


    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
    Was there anything that you wanted to achieve with your track but couldn't? 
    To make it sound less demo-ish just.  
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  • IMC1980IMC1980 Frets: 141
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.

    Your entry sounds good to me. This is just personal taste but I might have used a tad more reverb/ambience. But not too much because the dry'ish sound suits the style.

    +1 on the reverb, a "room" style reverb on a bus with sends from each bus works for me; it adds depth and allows you to push elements back in the mix with the amount you send to the bus. Mix the bus volume into the master so you can feel it rather than hear it - if you mute reverb bus, you'll notice the mix goes flat - that works for me. Could do another guitar part and pan them left and right for width and maybe a bit of delay on the guitar as well?
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  • flying_pieflying_pie Frets: 1806
    @bingefeller - EQ to better separate the instruments and planning the drums, or even stereo/multitracked guitars can help spread the sound asking with reverb. 

    For me I'd have liked the bass and drums to stand out more along with the guitar. Nice work though. 
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    edited April 2018

    poopot said:
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.
    Maybe have a bit more spread with the instruments?. It’s all good tho’
    How do you spread the instruments?  EQ?  


    You have a full range on the stereo spectrum from hard left through to hard right... pan the instruments so they sit in their own space within the stereo spectrum.

    stick some headphones on and listen to a tune you like, listen to where the various instrument are appearing in your head (if that makes sense).

    Listen to “bambi” by Prince.

    Gtr1 is left of middle

    Drums are fairly middle (but each drum has its own space)

    Bass is slightly right of middle

    Gtr2 is right of middle

    Vocs are slightly left

    Gtr solo replaces vocs


    That’s how I hear it




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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723
    @bingefeller - EQ to better separate the instruments and planning the drums, or even stereo/multitracked guitars can help spread the sound asking with reverb. 

    For me I'd have liked the bass and drums to stand out more along with the guitar. Nice work though. 
    @flying_pie Would that be a case of EQing the drums as one instrument?  Or do you EQ the snare, kick, cymbals all separate?   
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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723

    IMC1980 said:
    Any production tips would be appreciated guys.

    Your entry sounds good to me. This is just personal taste but I might have used a tad more reverb/ambience. But not too much because the dry'ish sound suits the style.

    +1 on the reverb, a "room" style reverb on a bus with sends from each bus works for me; it adds depth and allows you to push elements back in the mix with the amount you send to the bus. Mix the bus volume into the master so you can feel it rather than hear it - if you mute reverb bus, you'll notice the mix goes flat - that works for me. Could do another guitar part and pan them left and right for width and maybe a bit of delay on the guitar as well?
    Thanks, I think the Logic has a master track setup that I could do that all with.   
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  • flying_pieflying_pie Frets: 1806
    @bingefeller - EQ to better separate the instruments and planning the drums, or even stereo/multitracked guitars can help spread the sound asking with reverb. 

    For me I'd have liked the bass and drums to stand out more along with the guitar. Nice work though. 
    @flying_pie Would that be a case of EQing the drums as one instrument?  Or do you EQ the snare, kick, cymbals all separate?   
    I use a simple drum program where the samples are supposedly mix ready and the kit is set up with some panning. I have just been adding a tiny bit of EQ to the whole kit  - I've not yet tried routing kick, snare, cymbals etc to individual tracks which I'm sure would give better results. 
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2177
    Entries closed.

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