Workshop #256: Enchantress by Rick Kelly
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Workshop #256: Enchantress by Rick Kelly

on Nov 3rd 2012 with 3 comments

This track has been submitted for your friendly, constructive criticism. What useful feedback can you give the artist? The floor is yours to talk about the track and how they can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.

Description of the track:

Rick Kelly, Chicago based jazz guitarist and composer.

Artist’s website: soundlift.com/band/music.php?id=113485

Terms of Use: Users can stream the track for the purposes of giving feedback but cannot download or redistribute it.

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  • DexterG

    This is really good overall. Just a few things you might want to consider.
    I understand that this is a solo guitar song, but I think the guitar is too far forward in the mix; it doesn’t sit with the rest of the instruments well. I would pull the guitar back some.
    I also think the track has too much ambience and reverb. This can muddy your sound overall and as a mixer, it can cause you to think that you have to turn the featured instrument up and up and up in order for it to cut though. Pulling back on the ambience on each of your tracks and overall will help things sit together better.
    The only comment I would have on the arrangement would be that I think there is an overuse of crash/china cymbals. There are a few spots in the song where the successive hits of the crash work really well; at other times, hitting the crash at the beginning of every phrase just distracts from the main melody line.

  • Jordan Santiago

    I agree with Dexter G. I think something like a wood block or a bongo would nicely fill in those occasional areas where the cymbals are overused.

  • Tryggvasson

    I love the song, I think the production quality is great, overall, I think the ambient is just fine, it really fits the song and is quite necessary. What I would suggeset is to make the kick a bit more audible and turn the bass a bit louder (maybe eq it a little if it covers anything else, once louder, I don’t know). That’s it. Great song!