Beauty Full of Soul - beauty contest!

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Ok, some time ago I posted a version of this (01o), prompting Dave S of this forum to offer to do a remix (Rev2) - thanks, mate. He used an LCR approach (where everything is panned hard l/r/c, nothing in between - right, Dave?) and what a difference it made. Having heard the possibilities, I decided I wanted another go myself and the result is a05.

So, whaddya think? It’s not really a beauty contest, just the juxtaposition of two approaches to the same song, for comment. But that doesn’t mean that no one’s allowed to express a preference, of course.

Click on the Cactus Juice link in the sig to get to the tunes. [Edit] And then click here http://davesmithmusic.com/ to see how the same files sound on his site. :open_mouth:

Cheers,
C

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Hi Duncan

I don’t think the myspace encoding is doing the sound justice, at least not the streams I just listened to. Both files sounded narrow and warbly. I have uploaded my own mix to my blog.

http://davesmithmusic.com/

If you would like you can send me your mp3 and I’ll put it up there temporarily.

Cheers

Edit: Both mixes available at the link above

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You should have that in your inbox now, Dave. Thanks.

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Christ, you’re not kidding! You wouldn’t believe it’s the same mix, would you?

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Cool song, Duncan, I really like it. Wow, Dave, you really know what you’re doing. Just a few things I would complain about:

  1. Make it longer, I don’t think it needs whole new sections, maybe just a variation on the main riff with some tremolo guitar over it in the middle
  2. Selective de-esser on the acoustic guitar to lessen the string squeaks?
  3. There’s an obvious break between recorded sections at -0:17 (as your player counts it) where two bits are pasted together.
  4. Assume you’ll get to cleaning up the ending.
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Ah, er, yes of course, wondered how long it would take you all to notice that… Glad you like it and yes, it does need to be a bit longer - well, more varied…