Where is the cowbell guy when you need him?!

Sorry I havn't gotton around to doing a mix, just dealing with the summer time blues.

Justin, I emailed my mix to you...

J

Jeff -

Bravo! Nice job! I have bolded your name along with Brent's in the contest to indicate both of you are leading the pack right now. Your mix, like Brents, indicates a lot of careful listening and editing work. Here are my comments...

-nice autotuning work on the vocal
-nice new drum track but perhaps a bit low in the mix, what drum plugin/program did you use?
-nice editing, I particularly like how you re-arranged the part with the lead guitar
-nice background vocal, what program did you use?
-bass seems a little low level in the mix
-eq/comp/reverb on vocal sounds nice
-nice organ work although the very end of the song sounds like you lost steam and just wanted to finish up quickly
- I like the way the guitar is mixed and that you used delay on it
-acoustic guitar sounds nice in this mix
-what happened to the piano? Did you cut it on purpose?

Overall, you're a contender along with Brent's mix. Please comment more on what you did, what gear you used etc. here in this thread.

Thanks Justin,
I usually mix the drums up some.. but I was a little unsure about how Strike would mix. I think it needs a little more kick.
I'll comment on the other things when I get home.. Funny;.. when I hit that end note.. I said to myself.. Im tired! I gotta sleep.

J

Ahh I had a feeling you were using Digidesign Strike. It does feel a little robotic. I think with a bit more more tweaking you could fool almost anyone. Well, 'cept maybe Nick and Jeremy.

And by the way, considering this mix competition idea started with Nick vs. Jeremy - their mixes are conspicuously absent. Oh well, I 'm guessing Nick must be on vacation this week. Jeremy is likely curled up with a blanket someplace while tightly gripping his word clock cables.

Yeah that was my first time using strike. Its great in some respects and others.. well, very imiting. You either use all their patterns or not. IT does not break them down for you. Oh well, I am just getting lazy. This is showing me a weakness in my lowend here. Now I have to figure it out. I actually moved every thing back to where I had it in my room and trying to figure out where the hole is. It never ends.

Jeff

Nice job Jeff

That's ok. We'll just take your sig's word for it.

Thank Brent...

J