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My friend just came over from Tokyo to work on his demo. This batch of songs is getting ready to be presented to the labels, we'll see how it goes. He wrote the melody and charts and I sort of "cleaned up" and did the arranging / chorus arranging.

For this song, I stuck to very classic 8 beat rock groove. Voicings are very simple too. It almost sounds like church music, or at least what I remember Christian rock being. Very energetic, positive, simple, and plain.

It was hard to get the overdrive guitar style sound right. It's actually just a low passed saw wave, going through eq->overdrive->eq again. All using Live's bundled effects. It was hard to tune the eq so the sound was powerful, but didn't wash out the lead and chorus.

The lead has lots of comp on it... but I couldn't get rid of my friend's strong "e" vowel. He has a bad habit of starting off vowel sounds with a very strong push.. I tuned a de-esser to the "e" frequency.. still didn't help very much tho..

song download:
http://kensuguro.com.music.s3.amazonaws ... xtrack.mp3

Nice commercial sound Brotha' Man.
I like the mix too. Very Hornsby-ish. Vocals, Snare and Piano on top......
The way you sneak in the Fuzzy Saws was nice too.
I don't know if you have ever mixed using ADT for vocals or drums, but there are lots of good plugs for that. Scope has Neutron's ADT which works very well, especially live w/ CC's on the rate.
Everything sounds fine as is, I am nerely sharing an old commercial trick that has been used forever. The verses are dry and then the Chorus sections can be treated, and when the verse kicks back in it's dry again. Very dynamic and seriously commercial.
Led Zeppelin's drummer Bonham used this on drums with great success.
Anyways it's a damn fine mix as is, and another sign of your journey upwards.

Thanks 4 Sharing It,

thnx, the other track uses a simple slap back echo to make the vocals punchier, I didn't know a double taking effect existed. I would love to use them on the chorus to widen the stereo field a bit. thnx for listening