A Psych/electonic band I just worked with!

[slowcentury]

I have never submitted anything in this forum before. So I figured it was about time! Here's a psychedelic? electronic? band I just worked with from my home town. This was pretty difficult to mix due to technical problems with the electronics due to a stolen laptop but we made due. The vocals are a wee high for my tastes, but that's what they wanted. This was done on an extremely tight budget and in less than ideal spaces, but im pretty happy with the results! Fantastic live band! Enjoy!
http://feralchildren.bandcamp.com/album/sunson

[ricercar.record]

dude, i dig this! I would agree the vocals are a bit too high and up front, during certain sections in the mix but not to the point that it's too distracting or takes away from the song as a whole so that's ok. I really like the stereo vocals sections and the verbs and delays you used sound awesome! I'd love to know what you used for the vocals (mic, compression, eq, delays, verbs, anything). I am finishing up mixing an album for an indie rock 3 piece group right now that was recorded by the band in a similar fashion, in a non-ideal acoustic environment with their limited equipment and track count, so I had to pull some tricks in mixing and do the best I could with what I was given. I'll post some of the tracks here when we get em mastered. Any insight into the mic setup on the drums would be interesting to know too.

[Gregg Juke]

I thought it was coolio too. It sounds a bit like a young Bono singing with a 60's era Texas Psychadelic band, with a heavy alt/ambient edge. Cool music, nicely recorded/produced (maybe as if Brian Eno had been involved!).

I didn't think the vocals were too hot, and I'm usually a "the vocals are too hot" guy; but, it really all depends on what you're listening on. On my little Dell computer speakers, it sounds fine.

GJ

[slowcentury]

For me im totally a vocals in the mix kinda guy, so to mix with the vocals more up front weirds me out. Its what the client wanted so i ran with it. Its funny I was teasing the singer about "Bonoing" his vocals up so thats a totally apt comparison. As far as the vocal sound, its all a Heil PR30 into a Univeral Audio DCS pre I used the Waves SSL strip and on occasion a limiter to even things out a bit more. As far as reverbs and delays it changed depending on the song, a lot of the delay is just my Diamond Memory Lane JR guitar pedal, it worked awesome!

[Nick Sevilla]

Cool.
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