@LostBoy - Hi Leo, wonderful songwriting, love the organ and some of the drum fills, (listened on apple earbuds...)
I can hear the vintage element, the overall construction of the song is perfect.
I really wrestled with the mix on this as I wanted to make it sound a little rough around the edges with saturation, but man does that stuff make your mix sound harsh and brittle...sigh...so this is where I've landed for now. I hope you like it? Lyrics ok? Melody? Vocal volume? Is that triangle a touch too loud?? All thoughts are welcome and thanks.
I agree with
@MonnoDB about some of the Rhodes fills sound a little MIDI'ish, and the brass a little bit so. Maybe reduce the number of fills and embellishments that are adding interest throughout, it kind of takes away the focus from the vocal melody.
If anything I thought the bass Gtr could be a little more 'flabby' and a touch saturated, (as if going through an old, well toured bassman)
Some of the drum fills are also little out of context, they might benefit from being really simple, with just simple, but different end of groove fills.
The Vocals are spot on, nice EQ and at the right level in the mix.
The vintage vibe is a very bright thing Leo, part of this maybe is due to the gear they used and that they had to carve a chunk of wax to make a vinyl disk, the more bass the deeper they had to go, the deeper it went the more likely the needle would skip to the next groove..
I've toyed with some of the earlier genres, and Boy (or Lost Boy, I should say) you're right, the sound is bright TG12345 desk is super bright, so there is a lot of harshness around, funny though loads of people are yearning for that analogue gear, but it was warm and noisey. I understand the tricks that your ears have been playing....you kind of get sucked into a new level of brightness, and then everything sounds too bright, trust your ears, but keep an eye on the spectrum analyser, such as voxengo span, that'll tell you what's going on, but if it sounds right, it probably is.
But despite all that, it was the songs that were just superb, like this one.
Hope this helps
