After reading Johnny's comments about the Better Than What You Get At Home EP, I had a listen myself. The sound is muddy and doesn't portray any sense of intensity. It is also very narrow and just not "finished". This unfinished sound is something Johnny and I have encountered before and can occur even if the panning is perfect and there is no compression on the drums (and bass). So could this album be spiced up a bit? Well I attempted to find out.
The vocals are the one thing recorded well, but they lack the nice glossy finish that makes a CD stand out. Now Tristin can really sing, so its a shame that she is not brought forward with some sparkle. So I loaded Pardon Me up and tried to add some presence and width to the vocals. Sure enough, the vocals come out beautiful. The cymbals/hihat however couldn't take this extra pezzaz and started to distort. The drums aren't something fixable with what is on the album - they are fucked no matter what. Pristine vocals and a messed drum sound don't really fit together nicely.
After knocking the distortion back to a level that was tolerable, it was time to tackle the bass. The bass in the original was so heavy that I couldn't actually listen to the music at any volume without the bass "bottoming out". The constat "pop" that comes not only destroys the cool stuff going on, but the distortion afterwards on headphones was also problematic. The "bottoming out" comes from the bass drum, and the bass was just leveled too high. Some simple EQing pulled the two down to a fair level. The compression that Johnny spoke of still makes the bass drum "pop", but not nearly as badly.
That was all that was really "fixable", if it can be called that. The lack of panning really hurts the width and fullness of the recording, the compression affects the sound, and the poor EQing before the stereo mix means that it's tough to even get one aspect of the song to sound fantastic. The best that occurs is a moderate compromise between faults.
It's too bad because the band and their music kicks, but it's not something that I can fix. Well, it's fixable, but that would require re-recording and whatnot (which I think would be worth it).
Monday, April 24, 2006
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