Recently we posted about our new weekly feature, Workshops. This is how it works: you upload your tracks, and each week we publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song. Here’s our second, Chopper by Pan.
There are a couple of rules:
- Friendly, constructive criticism. We’re talking about people’s creative work, and anyone who is destructive and offensive will find their comments deleted — if they slip through moderation, let’s just hope we can catch them before the artist comes around to see your feedback. Negative constructive criticism is welcome. Since we’re only weeding out the offensive stuff, you only get one shot — if you use the comment box to insult people, you’ll find yourself unable to comment at AUDIOTUTS again.
- These comment threads can get pretty darn long. Have a quick read-through of the feedback that’s already been given, and try not to double-up too much.
Easy rules for civilized people to follow. 
Without further ado…
Chopper by Pan
Björgvin writes: “Unpublished track from Icelandic group Pan I was in for years. I am studying at SAE Institute in Madrid and had the master tracks so I am trying my hand at mixing the thing. It was recorded in Protools but mixed in Logic Pro 8. I just want all your opinions about the sound and production of the track, so I can get more ideas as to how I can change it. Thanks.”
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Something wrong with the encoding of the file. Getting warbly sounds.
dude, i hope to god thats an encoding or upload problemo, sounds horrible… all garbled, try to re-upload the tune, cus that gave me headache after 12 sec of listening. at first i thought this was an effect that was trying to be achieved, then i was like wait why the fuck would someone do this on purpose xD.
I’m hearing some fairly heavy phaser on the intro guitar that stops once all the instruments have come in. Is it the intro phaser that you guys are talking about or the whole track?
The whole track is… heavily distorted. Seams like decoder/encoder problem.
definitely something wrong with the encoding on this one. Constant popping noise and random glitches. this is not the phaser effect on the intro guitar.
You’re right — some encoding issues. I was listening on rubbish laptop speakers as I’m traveling and it’s less noticeable, but with headphones it’s definitely audible.
Can you change the sound of the synth in the choruses? I just feel like it needs to go somewhere after the verse. Too much of the same. Tear it up, give it some grit!
You said the guitar phaser is only in the intro. I hear it almost throughout the entire song (constantly panning L>R). Your kick drum needs more bottom end, too. I don’t feel it.
I’m sorry but I can’t hear the encoding issues you’re talking about. I hear no glitches or anything? I’m also streaming the file from the website so I don’t know what it could be…
Well, you can check the track out also at http://www.myspace.com/panband. It’s also there for you to listen. I’d like some comments about the song haha, not about the non-intended glitches ehehehe….
I’ve listened on myspace, I like the song and have some things I could mention, but I think i’ll wait till this version is fixed.
The horrible compression on myspace means I can’t even hear the small details that need changing, properly.
We gonna fix that mp3?
Björgvin — shoot me a high-quality MP3 without the encoding issues and I’ll chuck it up here.
New version from Björgvin is up to listen to.
I’m still getting the same issue.
Then it’s the upload. There’s nothing wrong with the mp3.
I’m guessing that maybe the audio quality of your MP3 is too high for most web browser audio codecs to handle. I’ve had this problem before myself when I decided everything I did would be 24 bit/48 kHz. When you convert your WAV/AIF over to MP3, you have to make sure that you back the resolution off to 44.1 kHz or most web systems will choke on your file.
I’m hearing that encoding noise, too.
Please try what Steve suggested, otherwise this workshop is useless.