The Mountains Call my Name

[Paulo]

Nice rocker guys, it's great.

[soulfrontier]

Hey Tricia you sound great! Nice rock song, great performance, kudos to you all!

[Tricia41]

Thanks so much !

[Zax]

Great collaboration you all!!   

Mix sound really good in my phones.  I can hear everything pretty clearly.

Tricia, your vocals sound great!

Frank

[Tricia41]

Thanks Frank. I played this one last week at an acoustic open mic in an ice cream shop. Haha people could relate to these lyrics I think. 

[rightonthemark]

I can't leave well enough alone  
i keep coming back to this tune because i keep hearing a little voice saying tweak this & tweak that...come on...you can do it...
so here's my latest attempt.
my personal issue with the last mix was it still sounded a bit muddy to me.
so this is brighter & I think features the lead vocals a little more/better.
let me know what y'all think.

here's what i did & why...
eq on lead vox & a little volume boost (trying to get them to cut through a little more without having them just sit on top or way out front without losing the warmth)
eq on rhythm guitars (just to make them less mid-rangey)
eq on bass and a little volume cut and added just a tad of distortion (to get it to cut through a little more & not be so boomy)
eq on kick drum and a little volume cut (to give it thump but not be so boomy)
eq and volume cut on overhead & room mics on drums (trying to tame the crashes without losing the ambiance and fullness).

[AndyG6508]

Hi Mark,

I will listen to the new mix and get back soonest!
Andy

[Tricia41]

It sounds pretty cool Mark. I can only listen on my iPhone speaker at the moment.

[AndyG6508]

HI Mark,

Listened to the new mix, and there's a lot of improvement specially in the guitars and the vocals.

However, I think a few tweaks on the bottom end maybe required? Listening on smalll/average speakers the bottom end sounds a bit light, with the snare a bit splashy and the bass low.

A bit more work there and this should be pretty solid I would think.

Cheers
Andy

[rightonthemark]

HI Mark,

Listened to the new mix, and there's a lot of improvement specially in the guitars and the vocals.

However, I think a few tweaks on the bottom end maybe required? Listening on smalll/average speakers the bottom end sounds a bit light, with the snare a bit splashy and the bass low.

A bit more work there and this should be pretty solid I would think.

Cheers
Andy

yeah. i did some more listening last night and realized i cut too much bottom end out and took away the warmth it had.
instead of tweaking I'm thinking i shoukd start from scratch.
i guess my big issue is that this is a great song and my mix is just okay.
clearly I've made some improvements with my mixing but i want my mix to be as great as the song.
that might be a tall order but I'm gonna keep plugging away.

[rightonthemark]

finally. a mix i like & hopefully does this great song justice.
i started over instead of tweaking it to death.
with critiques through each step from AndyG i think we nailed it.
this is my final mix --- & i mean it this time 

thanks again for letting me be a part & sorry for taking so long to get the mix right.

[Tricia41]

Sounds great Mark! I'll place it in the first post when I get to my PC. Thanks for all the effort!

[Albino]

Another good interpretation    But I think I prefer the first version, the one I got a wav file of.
It reminds me of Janes Addiction  which is by far not a bad thing

[CosmicDolphin]

Nice lyrics Tricia  Some good performances too, Steve is always good value on drums

This one sounds like something is a little off. I think it's the guitars...they sound a bit out of time, I suspect someone's played to a bed track that doesn't quite line up.

I quite like mix 1 & 3 so I'm glad you ditched the 2nd one as it seemed like a backward step from the first.

CD

[Tricia41]

Thanks for the comments Mark!