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Sports Rock Cue Review · 52 Cues - A Production Music and Sync Podcast

• 0:32
  Speaker 1: What is happening everybody?
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: This is Dave Croft, and welcome back to another 52Q's Q review, where I feature a Q written by you, a member of the 52Q's community, and then I provide critiques and feedback, like you might hear from a music supervisor or a potential library.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: And today we are checking out Next man Up, which is a sports rock Q written by one of my guitar heroes, jesse Kerrigan.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: So we are going to take a listen to it and then talk about it on the other side.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know if we were going to get a bucket of fish man there at the end or not, but, jesse, this is absolutely fantastic.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: You know, of course, I am a huge fan of your work and the guitar tones, and correct me if I'm wrong, but this is your helix, right?
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I think you've been doing some tests in the community comparing my actual mic'd cabs versus amp modelers and amp-sams, but I think this is all working really, really well.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: I bring the hats down in the mix a little bit Nice layering.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: I feel like the cymbals could come down in the mix just kind of.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: In general, love going to the toms here.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: There's a high part that I think could come out of the mix just a little bit here and where is the bass?
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: So tons of mix notes because you understand, like sports rock, so this is really really good.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: So I'm not giving you a bunch of form notes, but I'm trying to kind of sort out where the bass is.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like the bass is getting a little bit lost.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just sweeping around 50 hertz.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: The bass guitar is kind of somewhere around here, but I feel like it's just getting lost.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: So it's like we've given all the low ends to the kick, which is fine.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: The kick sounds really nice, but it almost sounds like there's not much of a bass and I wonder if we should go to the right cymbal here Coming out of the hi-hat.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think ride, because these are all nice long tones all throughout here, and so going to a more sustained sound on your cymbals, I think is going to be really, really good.
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: You can even bell and I would punch.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Of course you know me, it's going to be a lot of drum notes I would punch the kick and crash with the lick, like, right there, you even set up the fill, but let's punch it on the end.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels a little square, landing straight on the downbeat right there.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, if you were in the ride cymbal and then came back to the hi-hat here, I think that's going to make this hat part feel a lot more.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: It'll feel like we really returned where we are and those short hi-hat notes really really work.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: You, even though you're playing quarter notes, the short hi-hat notes work because the guitar is playing a lot more energetically throughout here and I feel like the solo part could come out a little bit more.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: And I wonder if you maybe double track it or do some stereo widening here.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those punches there are really really, really nice.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: And as far as the title, I think this is all absolutely working.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Again, you know your way around this and so, other than the lows of the bass getting a little bit lost and I know this was another mastering pass for you I'm just gonna do a little 3K boost.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: So that's a little boost at 3K, that's without it.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe scoop a little bit out of the mids, let's bypass it all together.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's gonna help the snare drum cut a little bit, it's gonna help the sizzle of the guitars cut through a little bit and we'll probably especially if we scoop out around 500 or so leave a little bit more room for the bass and then we inevitably add that bass back.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: But, jesse, thank you so much for sending this along.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Just a ton of guitar or drum mix notes for you, but this is fantastic and I know that this is going to find some love and I know because you've already gotten some love on air.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: So that's really fantastic.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: And if you found that helpful and if you're watching this and you would like feedback on your own cue, then head over to 52Qscom slash coaching and you can order up your own personalized video feedback.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: I'd love to help you out, check out title mix notes, form, structure, everything.
• 9:09
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• 9:12
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• 9:22
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• 9:25
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• 9:35
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• 9:39
  Speaker 1: But that's going to do it for me Until next time, peace.