7 Dec
2004
7 Dec
'04
9:33 a.m.
Hi Reuben:
Interesting piece. The singer is very good, I'd say he's the reason
they'll get signed. The song's difficult to judge, I think the singer is
just a tad too far back in the mix when things get fuller, and I lose
the lyrics then. Playing is very good though, my compliments to the
band. The lead at the end is not coming out very clearly here, but
that's a minor point.
I really like that singer's voice, there's just a hint of Steve Perry
that works well for him.
Btw, perhaps we should mention exactly what we're using to audition
each other's music. After leaving the computer the sound here is routed
from a Yamaha DMP11 mixer to a QSC 100-watt power amp and on to a pair
of Yorkville YSM-1 studio monitors. The YSMs aren't that great, but
they're fairly flat and do sound good in the room here.
Nice work, Reuben !
Best,
dp
Reuben Martin wrote:
Here's one of a set of songs I recorded for a band
at the university I attend. They needed to record 4 songs for a demo to send to a producer
at some studio in Nashville before they went there to record. Anyway, the recording was
done with Adobe Audition because it was not my computer, and we were using a Motu firewire
unit. I did the mixing and mastering on ardour and jamin though, which isn't saying
much given I had to do all four songs in about an hour and a half. It doesn't sound
bad though, and shows you can mix decent quality stuff with Linux software when you're
pressed for time. (It would have taken forever with Audition, that program SUCKS for
mixing) The recording isn't very clean, the Yamaha M3000 has very noisy preamps. BTW
this was recorded in a very live auditorium, so all reverb is natural.
This band is about to get signed from what I hear, and I since I don't think most
record labels like stuff from their bands floating around, try to keep this on the DL.
Anyways, see what you think. The band BTW is called "Jackson Waters".
http://www.jacksonwaters.com
http://students.jbu.edu/martinr/JW_Demo.ogg
-Reuben