<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> First of all: thank you very much. You've taken a lot of time on this, and I appreciate it :-)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/6/3 Jostein Chr. Andersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jostein@vait.se">jostein@vait.se</a>></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
recording and mix, it starts with the sources. It's very many playing mistakes<br>
here, from bad timing and missing notes in bass to a lot of mistakes on the<br>
guitar playing. My guess is that you are not used to play to a metronome or<br>
drum machine and that the recording situation is new for you? I hear a lot of<br>
talent in the guitar playing, so I believe you are much better than what I<br>
hear on the tracks. Please, don't stop playing, do more practicing to<br></blockquote><div> </div><div> Totally guilty on this. It's not really that I'm not used to play to a drum machine, more like I'm quite lazy and didn't work enough on the riffs. What you have is the first or second take of everything, and it shows. Besides, I'm a total newbie playing bass (only use it from time to time to add some backing, like in this song), so I've probably made all the mistakes in the world. Twice.</div>
<div><br></div><div> But that's the idea! I wanted to put something quickly and see what happened if I "let it loose", so to speak. Mind you, it's not that I could do it much better if I tried ;-) But part of the idea was not fretting too much over it, because in my experience, if I don't do something soon with these things, they'll remain in my hard disk forever.</div>
<div><br></div><div> In short: no problem with your criticisms, they're very fair. Don't hesitate in pointing them to me; I won't be annoyed as long as you're gentle enough ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>
Now, regarding the mix: it's awesome! Everything sounds way more clear and defined. I'll have to review what you've done to see if I can learn something. Regarding what you said about echoes and reverbs, I'm a bit puzzled: the original guitar sound only has a slight reverb, and the echo was added with Ardour. Did I something wrong, that it was not possible to remove it?</div>
<div><br></div><div> This is being quite a good experience, so I expect to release all my next music like this (did I hear a shudder from the masses?). If you liked to clean up this mess, be prepared for more in the future :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br> Roberto Suárez Soto<br><br>