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[Dan Wilson]

Hi Joni,

I enjoyed the track. I really liked the clarity of the lead guitar. If I was going to give any criticism, I would say lower the ride cymbal a bit. Keep them coming.

 

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rallyboy101,

Thanks for all of your advice. Maybe in the future I will get the song mastered by a professional. It getting to the point of wanting to replace things in the song to make if “better” like the rhythm guitar I played on the left side. I am a drummer not a guitar player, it is really just me having a little fun in my studio.

For now I am going to step away from this song and take the stuff I learned and apply it to another song.

Really enjoyed listening to Shane MacGowan’s Lonesome Highway.

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rallyboy,

Thanks again for your comments I really appreciate it. I remixed the song again and tried bringing in the guitars in a bit and moved the organ part off centre to open room up for the vocals. Funny thing is my brother did do the backup vocals. I guess being brothers we sound a little too much alike.

I have heard your songs and I really enjoyed the tunes. Can’t wait to hear the finished version of “Somewhere Far Away”

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rallyboy,

Really liked the song. The BGV at 2 and 4 minutes where very nice I think they really fit with the dreamy feel you are trying to evoke seems like you could visit it once more within the body of the song. As for the middle section why not explore using the vibrato guitar there, as an example listen to what you were doing at around 3 minutes. If I could given one small constructive criticism – that is to fade the morse code part a little earlier since it is more straight time and the rest of the song has more swing to it, I think it takes away from the groove of the song.

I hope I haven’t offended with what I wrote above.

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rallyboy,

I enjoyed listening to the tune. I like how you balanced the mix, I could hear every instrument without anyone overpowering the others.

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rallyboy101,

First of all, thank you for the constructive criticism, I really appreciate it. After reading it, I played around with the mix a bit more. Hopefully it moved in the right direction.
The bass is a DI p-bass played by my brother. The chain is DI into MOTU 828x into logic x. Plugins include the waves Puigtech Eqs and IK Black76 and White 2A with a bit of parallel compression.

Any further constructive criticism will be most appreciated.

Cheers
Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for the advice, especially about the entry/passing words and the level of the vocals relative to the music. I will look closer at this and arrangement suggestions on the next song.

Your constructive criticisms was what I was hoping for.

Cheers

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rasmus,

The method you described is a lot more elegant compared to the what I described, I will be using your method it in the future.

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Rasmus_5,

I run logic 10.4.1 and quickly set up a loop with SD3 as a plugin as you did to make sure what I am going to suggest will work. In Logic I selected the multi-output option in SD3 and created multi busses in Logic. In the SD3 mixer I bussed all of the kick mics to a single bus, in this case bus 3/4. So far everything is as you set it up.

Now in Logic, I set the kick bus channel to output 3/4 of logic. When you do this, a 3/4 Output fader appears between the Stereo output fader and Master fader. I checked to make sure only the kick drum was playing in this bus only.

Press bounce on the 3/4 Output fader (bottom). A dialog box will pop up, select 24 PCM and on the right of the dialog box there is an option to include file in your project. Check this box.

After logic completes the bounce open your browsers, the little box in the upper right hand corner (image of camera, notes, film) where logic contains the links to the various files in your project. Your newly bounced tracks will be in there.

Now drag these files from there onto/ into your arrange page and drop them on the correct bar. Now you should have your drums bussed out as you wanted them. Hope this made sense.

Dan

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

[Dan Wilson]

Hi Scott,

Absolutely, but what if you say wanted to use two different eq or compressor settings on your top and bottom snare mics. You could at present send each mic to a different stereo bus in SD2 and the out to logic (DAW) but you end up with a bunch of stereo busses for mono mics. I am merely suggesting if one could access their third party plugins within SD2 it would be much more elegant.
I suppose then, of course, people would ask that they be able to access the kick track in SD2 from the bass compressor so they could duck the bass in the their DAW. I realize it is a never ending “how about…”. This was only a thought after using SD2 and truly liking the end result, but to get there is was just a little cumbersome.

Dan Wilson

Logic X, SD3, SD2, iMac

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