Help With Making A Song!: Can't Get It Perfect

By mattysen March 8, 2010 11 Comments

UPDATE!: -- I HAVE FINALIZED THE MIX!!! YAY!  
   After hours, weeks and about a month I have finally mastered this bad boy! It still isn't quite perfect but I don't think any amount of mixing will take it further, looking past that it's pretty god damn good now (not intentionally trying to sound arrogant) and I'm happy with it. Either that or I've spend so long doing this I've become insane. I do consider this probably my best song ever made my me and probably will be for awhile. Criticism please! 

    

   
 

Also duders, I need to come up with a better name, the current one sucks ass.   

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UPDATE!: Had another go at the mixing of the suggested points from the comments, minor update though, as the mixing has been worked on in slight notches and whatnot. A warmer (for better or worse) more clear mix I guess. The vocals however, I couldn't get the extra boost of presence that's in the MEG song probably due to a bad recording from the microphone. Anyway give it a listen and see what you think. I'm leaving the old mix there to show you where I've gone from, I can't really tell which mix is better but I have a back-up file of the previous mix to go back to. 
 
    

  
 
 
I know I've been posting alot of music blogs recently but I've managed to sneak myself a small part in a gig, only a three-song-set, two from my band and one from my solo alias. Point being this is the one I'm going to do on my half 
    I've worked quite a while on this one, it's kind of my "secret weapon" of the soon to be EP I'm going to release (eventually). It's probably my best song I've done albeit, in the genre of electro-popness. But there's still a handful of things I can't put my finger on, the mixing? The layers? I'm not quite sure.  
I'll also warn you I am not a decent vocalist at all, having to use Autotune when I'm not sure how to use it. And I know theres some slight vocal and bass hiccups in this file of the song, but there just glitches really so try to ignore them.          
I'l get around to every comment if I'm not asleep :P 
 
I guess in comparison to something I want to achieve It would be something like this 

 ...Yes it is a little queer, but the producer Yasutaka Nakata is probably one of the worlds best in my eyes (also another good name of a song by MEG). It might be abit harsh to compare myself to a world class producer but there you go anyway -- just to show what I'm aiming for.  

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