Touch of Grey - Kinda suits me anyway

I have got a bit bogged down with this and could do with a bit of advice - mostly on the overall sound and specifically the drums and bass Livedead played the drums but I am about halfway through trying to mix them. I played everything else, and I know about the bum notes. I am going to repair the bass if it's okay-ish, and I am certainly going to sing it again, add a harmony and a hammond organ or similar. I just don't want to do any more until I get the backing nice and solid Oh yeah it's going to out before the crappy ending refrain Cheers for all comments Remastered

At them moment in my monitors everything is out-of-mix and the Right and left Guitars also seem to be modulating in volume and for this style seem a little too far left and right and dry. Drop all other faders but the Bass and drums and just work on those getting them to sound nice and balanced against each other.Then bring the Rhythm guitars back in and get those set against your rhythm section block.Then you can bring the vocals back in. HTH :)

Drums sound great to me Ted. I can't hear the bass too much but nothing stands out as wrong with it. Of course the thing with bass is how it interacts with the guitars. At present I might want to try low-passing the bass to keep it out of the way of the lower end of the guitars but that can only be done when you have all your other stuff in there. Nice track mate - a lot of nice material there. I have a hunch your hardest decisions are going to be what to leave out . . .

Surprised you don't hear the bass much Spike, I wouldn't want it any louder in my monitors/headphones. Yeah the drums area sub mix of 16 tracks Livedead sent me - my puter starts to complain at around 30 tracks and 60 plugins, and I don't wnat to make lots of drum mixes - although I can always come back to them when I get everything else rendered - so that's why I was asking I hear you about low passing the bass Spike, it is low passed already because I remember you talking about that in another thread but I didn't remember where you passed it - I LP'd this bass at about 2.3 KHz mabe that's higher than where you would do it. Any way my main worry is whether the bass is sitting with the drums, because this track, indeed any Grateful Dead track will sound cluttered and busy, but that's how they are supposed to sound - that's one reason they are such an acquired taste - but once acquired - never forgotton

wow, you sound a lot like jerry! jeff dinces

singing, i meant... guitar solos do not quite match jerry's inimitable style. bass drum is sucking in a bit, perhaps due to overzealous compression? that kinda swamps the bass guitar, so i would look at that relationship (rhythem section). overall, imo, the mood is appropriate; i did enjoy it. jeff dinces

You got talent! I liked this very much, thanks TedW.