| quote: | Originally posted by gerrycueto
still is too compressed for an acoustic tune... it could have been done better... yeah, it sounds like you did it the fast route... did you filter the guitar? or anything for that matter? sometimes a great acoustic track can be polished up with a little bit of minor EQing... instead of having to add great deal of processing...
Most people haven't commented about it because they are listening to the track with dance music ears, and dance music is heavily compressed, but if an acoustic rock person were to hear it, he'd have to agree that the track is too compressed for the genre, or compressed with the wrong settings.
The track is great don't get me wrong, but the vocals just don't go. Autotuned tech vocals never mixed well with laidback acoustic rock, and probably never will...If you wanna keep the acoustic feel and the techy vocals, I'd suggest listening to Top40 radio. Usually in the techy vocoder verses, you'll hear a synthpop type of beat, and when the natural chorus comes on, the track switches to instruments that rely on live musicians...
The delay effects on the vocals are extremely superfluous... Why did you put them?
A metronome is extremely key when producing any kind of remix especially to an EDM track. The vocals seem to dodge the time of the track... I know you were trying to be realistic, but in this case you should have stuck to a locked computer time. In a live band session, the vocalist must always follow what the players are doing, when they slow down, he/she must slow doing their singing as well, same goes with speeding up, so must the players fit with what the vocalist is singing... This interdependance the players and singers have among each other is what makes a good band. What I hear here sounds like if the vocalist is doing her time, and you're just doing yours. Remixing is as legitimate an artorm as playing in a band, you've gotta find that common ground between your music and the song you're remixing. You've got to put the original artist's vision into perspective as well as putting yours. Remixing isn't about taking a song and doing whatever you want to it, in an attempt to make your remix more important than the original song.
I don't see how an acoustic remix can be impossible for this song. I believe it can be done, but you've failed to see Delerium's perspective, that's why this track failed as a remix. Although would be great as an instrumental... or with original vocals for that matter. |
Have you ever heard the original? They ARE the original vocals...the vocoded ones...from their OWN remix package...from DELERIUM themselves...as is the GUITAR  So there was nothing I could do to stop them being vocoded im afraid !
As for the rest of your post, I actually feel fairly offended...
I do not mind your constructive critisims, i embrace them. But for someone to tell me that I have "failed" in remixing the track is a bit of a slap in the face, at least the track is finished?!
You say that "remixing isn't about taking a track and doing whatever you want to it", i have to disagree. Thats the beauty of it! I feel when im remixing a track, that what I am doing is what I would have done given that I had made the melodys etc etc. My own personal perspective on a track.
As for EQing etc i not a total dummy  Yea im not amazing at mastering, but im learning still...i like to think i am progressing :S lol
Sorry to sound an arsehole but I was a bit offended by the nature of your post
Shep
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