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First ios track
I've been around a bit but never posted anything before, for lack of anything to post, despite a lot of app buying.
Mainly a guitarist (flamenco/South American) so stuck to what I know. Calexico style brushes in Drumperfect, iFretless guitar and Bass plus my own guitar. Added a TC-11 synth and Thumbjam cello. Looking for advice on mixing and mastering. Thanks.
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Enjoyed this track very much!
Good stuff...!
Good skills. Nice work!
Great!
Nice, enjoyed that!
There's a recent post on audiobus forum about mixing & mastering that will be useful for you, lots of useful info. Thanks for sharing ya tune!
That sounded sweeeet even through my iPhone5's speaker!
Very well done. Felt like I was in an old west movie!
good stuff. I run all my iPhone tracks back into my computer and mix and master with T-Racks. But I make music to sell so it has to be appropriate levels. If you do not mind losing the rights to this track you could sell it as film score audio. Would make an excellent intro for tv/film western shows or documentary.
Nice, I am a big Calexico fan, realy liked the album he did with Iron and Wine.
@Fitz You did ask for mixing advise, I just happened to be in front of my monitors, so here's my 2 pennies, at about 37 seconds being down the bass a bit when your guitar kicks in giving more focus on the great guitar work. Maybe some low cut on the lead guitar. The brushes to be pushed to the backround a slight amount more, with reverb perhaps. Some panning of your strumming, maybe separate into two tracks pan each. Some width in mastering, but I am still learning those techniques as well. These are what I am hearing in my monitoring chain, please take with a grain of salt. this albums first track will kind of describe the sound I'm referring to.
Nice tune, awesome plucking.
Thanks everyone for supportive comments, might go for ios track 2 then!
@higs, yes I've been reading and following up on that post but it's a lot of info. I feel I need to get the most out of each track. I'm using Audio Mastering which doesn't have any presets for individual instruments, which is a shame. I suspect a lot of it is trial and error.
@ShawnLeonhardt, to be honest I'd really like to get into that kind of thing, and would appreciate any advice. For example, what do you mean by appropriate levels?
@WMWM, thanks for the comments. Calexico are one of the best bands I've ever seen live. I particularly like the drummer, which was my main starting point on this.
I don't have any monitors, or even monitor headphones, which I'm going to look into. So I'm missing some of this anyway.
I never changed any volumes during mixing! I did have 2 different strummed guitars, using also the 12 string in Guitarism, panned on either side, but i'm still learning to use that app, so eventually muted it.
Width in panning I don't know how to do. Do you mean in mastering or just moving the panning of different instruments during mixing?
Thanks again for your advice, I really need as much as possible.
A thing that has worked for me is to duplicate the strumming track, mono I'm assuming, pan each a different direction, and offset one a slight bit, season to taste. Not sure which daw your using, but some use a send with delay to accomplish about the same effect. ReRecording the strumming, instead of duplicating it, and then pan, is also a great tactic and the one I prefer. Hope this makes sense.
here is an article from another forum I frequent. And this Is the intended effect. (Love that song)
Auria. I will try different ways to do this, thanks.
My favourite non-Calexico track (they were the rhythm section in Giant Sand at this time) -
@Fitz by appropriate levels I mean various things... Like if you are writing a song for an app you mix and master it to sound good on a smartphone. Usually bass comes out terrible in an iPhone... Unless you have headphones on. So I use Moog or synth bass for app music. Comes through better. Or if you are mixing your piece to be for tv... Make sure it sounds better. Burn you song to a cd and play it in various places. And of course take the mixing advice people give you... There is just so much to it your best bet is to daily practice songwriting and mastering. Daily.