{"id":585,"date":"2019-11-18T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/?p=585"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:17:14","slug":"malvey-prototype-1-feedback-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/2019\/11\/18\/malvey-prototype-1-feedback-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Malvey &#8211; Prototype 1 Feedback Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first prototype was a demo I recorded and mixed. I will go over some of the feedback I received and  how I am reacting to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To much distortion on the vocals. They don&#8217;t sound human.<ul><li>I need to consider how accessible I want the project to sound. Making the vocals sound more clear could make it sound better to a larger audience. I need to consider and balance how I want the project will sound with &#8220;pop&#8221; production. I don&#8217;t want this to be inaccessible to the average music listener. I lowered the made the vocals more clean in the newest mix. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Make the vocal passages closer together to make the song more engaging. <ul><li>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll change the structure of this song, but this is a good thing to keep in mind as I continue writing songs.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The drums sound distant.<ul><li>Right now the drums are electronic, I will have a real drummer rerecord it next month. There is reverb on the drums which gives them a distant feel. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>There isn&#8217;t enough low end (bass).<ul><li>I was not happy with the bass tone. I was having a lot of trouble getting it to sound right. I checked out some books about mixing from the library and tried different approaches to mixing the bass. I highly compressed the low end of the bass to reduce some of the problems I was having with it. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first prototype was a demo I recorded and mixed. I will go over some of the feedback I received and how I am reacting to it. To much distortion on the vocals. They don&#8217;t sound human. I need to consider how accessible I want the project to sound. Making the vocals sound more clear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/2019\/11\/18\/malvey-prototype-1-feedback-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malvey &#8211; Prototype 1 Feedback Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prototypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ault.immtcnj.com\/thesis_fall_19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}