Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb full cover (macman)

[macman01]

Remastered:
It may sound a bit better now
find it here
http://homepage.mac.com/mstow/FileSharing2.html





Watch out for volume if you have headphones on. the mix is still quite *hot* in volume I have it pretty much optimized for my system ...so just be cautious.
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A post or two back I posted a cover of "Another Brick in the Wall" and I referred to the fact that this is the "summer of George" or more aptly the summer of Floyd. I have always loved Floyd and find I can get some extremely authentic tones using my GNX3000. So I figured ....why not cover some Floyd songs to highlight the GNX3000' capabilities.

I wanted to attempt this one before moving onto posting covers of other bands.

http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/pa...finallead_.mp3


I am still blending the final mix. That is a very long process so I wanted to take a step back and post what I have and see what you guys think of it. Also if I spend any more time glued to my computer with Headphones on then I think my wife is gonna go ape****

I did Vox and Guitars using my lovely GNX3000 a mentioned above.

Any pointers etc would help a lot as I continue to mix and get this ready. I put it on my ipod and it plays back ok. I burnt it to CD and played it in my car and it sounds like it may need some polish and mixing. However I have a cheap ford focus and the CD player in it ain't great. So therefore maybe what I am hearing through my ipod may be a better reflection of how the mix is.

Anyways as always I look forward to hearing from you all. This has been an extremely valuable learning forum for me as I am very new to recording.

Mark.

[BleedingPinky]

Sounded great here macman! Nice and moody stuff, yeah!

[macman01]

thx Bleedin Pinky

with regards the volume of the track ...should I lower the master track volume a touch before mixdown or was this volume in the mp3 I posted above about right??

thx

[saulhudson]

Sounds pretty damn good to me, if anything I'd maybe back off a little on the reverb,(On the vocals.) and it'd sound pretty cool if you could use a vocal delay on points like where the vocal starts, (E.G. Hello, hello ,hello?) but hey I think this is really cool, one of my favourite Floyd tracks!
Incidentally, if you want a good backing for this with a nice clean ending, as opposed to a fade out, I have one if you want it?

[rezamozaffarinia]

Great job on this macman , vocals & guitars are both very nice , the mix on the other hand needs work as you mentioned .

Pink floyd songs usually have a very distinguishable production , mosty low volume , lots of headroom & small amounts of overall compression etc., but before thinking about those issues ,there are a few Basic , standard things that you might want to consider ,as i can hear in your track you have a big Frequency overlap among individual instruments, try to get each track as clean as possible try a mono approach to make them sit better in the mix , use all 3 channels , avoid stereo imaging on the backing instruments . this will clean up the place a bit so can vox can sit in dead center(eg.) and snand out, same with lead guitars.

best of luck
Regards
rez.

[aitch]

I didn't really have any trouble with volume. maybe a little too much reverb. The singing was good.. The dark parts have a RW feel to it. I liked the guitar tone.. specially in the second solo.

this was really good!!

[Scott Parnell]

sounds great to me macman! wtg!

[Sling Shot]

I simply don't only judge songs on how close they sound to the original, that being said ,,,EXCELLENT !!!!!!!

[macman01]

Thx guys:
Sling Shot - I appreciate the kind words bro

Scott - Ditto mate

Rythameen & Naifuzan - I will attempt that scream!

I am mastering it some more and getting nice results on this one!