[Voc/Mix Crit] X♡X♡ - 1st Mini Album

[Liana]

01 - Run Devil Run (GP Beatz Version)
02 - Gee
03 - Visual Dreams (Aeria Remix)
04 - MR TAXI (Epitone Remix) [YOUTUBE]
05 - Mistake feat. Bajonjojonjo
[YOUTUBE]
This came about because of the MASSIVE FLAKAGE that was happening in XOXO for a while. We ended up with three songs that just needed some quick covers, so I said "Hey, let's record two more songs and call it a mini album, no big deal." I was going to do two easy songs and then somehow decided on Mistake and then everything took forever. BUT WE HERE NOW.

Some quick comments - both Run Devil Run and Mistake have some timing issues that kind of come from the instrumentals. Kappa helped me out with Mistake as much as she could and thank GOD for that. RDR I just kind of gave up on LOL I might be imagining them too. Also Mistake was recorded with a webcam and recorded quietly. The lack of quality comes from that and me trying to make the instrumental loud enough to be heard at all, and then I compensated with too much reverb on the vocals . . . I'd prefer mixing critiques to be held back on Mistake. I just hope everyone enjoys the overall prettiness. I could have gone with a proper instrumental remake that was a little more consistent rhythmically but ultimately decided I loved the unpluggedness too much.

[Gino]

I haven't even listened to this yet and I know it's flawless as hell. Real critique to come soon.

[TokiDokiHaato]

I love us.  I love your mixing.  I love everyone being a diva.

Gonna go listen to this on repeat for days now.

[ZaKey]

Your mixing is brilliant! And so is everyone from this group. We rocked it BD

[Liana]

Bumping because I finished the Mistake video!!!

[TeruTeruBuggy]

I loved all the tracks in this, but I think Mistake is my favorite despite the bad quality of instrumental.  It really allows you to see just how awesome the vocals in this group are without like SNSD popping up everywhere in other channels.

[Liana]

I loved all the tracks in this, but I think Mistake is my favorite despite the bad quality of instrumental.  It really allows you to see just how awesome the vocals in this group are without like SNSD popping up everywhere in other channels.

None of the other tracks have SNSD in them, everything is 100% our own vocals The ONLY part where I used a vocal rip was right before the "TAKE ME HIYAAA" line in Visual Dreams because I have NO clue how to reproduce that shit lmao but everything else is all us! Well mostly me. DC does some BG stuff in Run Devil Run though. This stuff I was going to talk about and credit on youtube rather than write a novel no one wants to read ever lmao. Oh and the only instances of pitch editing aside from places you hear autotune is the Mr. Taxi chorus because literally half of us made up our own medley for jeukshi jeukshi jeukshi or accidentally sang harmony XD Good job, us. w/e I did it right what am I talking about, us. I give me a gold star. Not that we're like pitch perfect or anything I'm sure it's obvious I didn't pitch edit and anyone who knows me knows I never touch it save for disastahs in group parts BUT I'M STILL PROUD OF ER'RBODY.

[shi2js]

GAHHHH! ive been waiting for this forever. hahahaha!
i like how every song is "different", as in, different from the way SNSD sings it.
i love it! every song is rockin its own theme.
however, i feel like some of our past dubs have been better (vocally).
haha, i also kind of wished that there was a normal version AND a remix version for the songs because of the hectic mixing.
NOT saying that you're a bad mixer, liana, cause you know i love your mixing.
i think it's just the instrumentals that didn't work with our dubs.
by themselves, the instrumentals sound GREAT, but once we add singing to it, the timing gets off....
eh, i dont know what i'm trying to say, hahaha, i think i'm just blabbing now... i'll shut up now, bye

[Liana]

If any timing is off, that is ALL me baby! I try to check and double check but somewhere around hour 20 it all just blurs together. I do want an excuse to talk about why I choose remixes!

After our Oh or even Nu ABO, I haven't been a huge fan of JUST using an instrumental remake. I think it's better to combine a noraebang, a vocal rip, and samples FROM the vocal rip- that's how I made the Hoot and Visual Dreams instrumentals and I really liked the results of that. Remakes just sound empty otherwise. So I would have done that + remixes originally, but here's why I didn't-

Mr. Taxi: THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER MR TAXIS XDDD We started ours the second the song came out but it got bottlenecked and by the time I was ready to work on it, poor Mr. Taxi had been through a lot. See: Zessei Bijin's Mr. Taxi and Line's Mr. Taxi and DC's Mr. Taxi. Like those are AWESOME and we couldn't have been any MORE awesome with our version, but we could be different! It's a lot of fun to just do a song even if it's a bit "overdone" for most, but personally, I have a LOT more fun being different. It's not really srs business, I just get bored doing something Everyone Else Has because I'm a hipster so I was like "Okay wow Mr. Taxi is really tired right now you guys give him a break. He needs his 30 minute lunch. He needs to call his wife."

Run Devil Run - This one is unfortunate. I COULDN'T combine it with a vocal remove + instrumental remake because Kesha's demo version can't be found in true stereo and, thusly, cannot go through a vocal rip, and we couldn't combine the English with the Japanese or Korean BG 'cause. Hot mess city XD I feel like there's an official Run Devil Run instrumental out there SOMEWHERE but I couldn't find it!!! I DID try to find another remix-y instrumental that would have a full sound to it but the weirdly off time one was all I had This version is actually kind of a placeholder one while I scour the internet for one that's more on rhythm. I checked and double checked and I mixed the vocals exactly on rhythm, I will send anyone us mixed with Kesha if you be hatin', we are all singing together, it's that damn instrumental. It's LOVELY and I love the Mortal Kombat thing but I am too rhythmically retarded to figure out what he's got going on there.

Mistake - GUITAR SO PRETTY 

And Visual Dreams and Gee already had alternate versions Gee is so out of place lmao oh well . . .

[shi2js]

haha, i'm not hatin. i like the remixes, and i know EXACTLY what you mean about how there's so many other "Mr. Taxi's"
haha, excuses for remixes accepted xD i was never against them to start with, though

[Liana]

I JUST LIKE TO TALK I'm such a nerd. Seriously I could do commentary on dubs. And you'd have to loop the dub like 5 times for me to say everything. I have to restrain myself ALL THE TIME XD

[Liana]

Bump for Visual Dreams! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xko8S0BPPM4