Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

It's a great piece of work, but if you really want some constructive criticism here's some 
ideas:

1) Take everything down a touch, just to get some 'space' for it to work in - the sense that 
it's all taking place in a room.

2) Take a little of the vocal volume, but remove all the effects. If you need to shave a little 
of the top end with the EQ, but I suspect you won't need to. The problem with the vocal is 
that the middle and bass ends are washing around in the reverb and bleeding into the 
other instruments at that level, the natural treble tone should cut through nicely when its a 
little quieter and a little cleaner.

3) I can't quite make out your stereo positioning, but I like to arrange all the instruments 
in stereo space as they would appear on stage (or however you imagine the setting) - 
subconsciously it makes everything sound 'right' to the casual listener.

4) Maracas - listen to the percussion only and set the levels as if the drummer and maraca 
player were stood relative to each other. Route them to a Group Fader for the final mix and 
only go back into the maracas if you're not happy with the end result. You could try 
positioing the maracas next to the vocal, as though she were playing them.

5) With only essential effects on individual tracks you can now add the room on your 
Master output track. Just a touch of reverb to bind it all together in the same environment.

6) Now you can go back in and sparingly apply the stereo delay to exactly the phrases you 
want. 

Hope that's not more than you bargained for. As I say, there's really nothing wrong with it 
as it stands, perfectly professional, but that's how I'd do it.

Kind regards,

Nige

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Sean T Lamont <lamont@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi there. I've been working with logic for 2-3 months, having recently
> (re) adopted the apple platform for production, after having used Sonar
> and a hardware mixer for several years, and various other tools before
> that.  I'm currently working on a macbook pro with logic 7.2 and a tascam
> integrated audio & control surface.
> 
> So since I just finished my first full mix, I thought I'd throw it on line
> and get some feedback. I'm pretty sure that both the vocals and the
> maracas are mixed too high.  Everything is either a stock apple loop or a
> logic-based virtual instrument, except the strat and the vocal tracks.
> 
> http://itchy.serv.net/~zeno/CommitToGroove.mp3
> 
> Curious, for anyone who has used logic and a tascam control surface: How
> do you mix the master volume? It's clearly a motorized fader, but I can't
> figure out how to get logic to assign to it in the automation control,
> just the sub-faders. I ended up mixing everything through a secondary
> track and not touching the master fader, just so I could get a track
> bounce.
> 
> I have much to learn, obviously, but I'm happy I was able to go all the
> way through the process.
> 
> 
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