Probably good idea to pan both the OHs and guitars fully to sides to create some width.

You'll probably want to compress the bass DI really hard in order to blend it well with the rest of the band, Di basses pop out really easily out of these kind of recording where everything's bleeding into one another but none to the bass.

Leakage (and handling it) on the vocal mics will determine the quality of the final recording. Your vocal mics are essentially also drum mics so don't start mixing the drums with the vocal mics muted.

I think the orchestra sounds just fine (perhaps there a bit too much verb on them IMO). I feel many of the other elements aren't in their place, the drums are lacking bottom end oomph and you could easily get away with more compression on the vocals (perhaps a bit of distortion à la Spike Stent to keep them on top of the mix). As a learning process you probably ought to try to match the sonics of Hurts' first album Happiness (which is better sounding than their second effort, more punchier). Bright vocals, punchy drums and wide orchestration. Rarely it's the orchestra itself that sounds punchy per se but many of the other elements in a cinematic pop song.

My personal favorites in a "punchy orchestral" genre are Björk's Homogenic and Vespertine albums. In both albums it's the drums (more in the former) and especially the vocals (which have been given an intensive sound) which make that punchy sound IMO.

You seem to be correct. This one previews (with or without the quotations) just fine.

Quote from: JohnSuitcase on June 05, 2014, 06:47:11 PM

OK, I removed the ad management mod, and it seems better from here...

It seems disabling the ad management mod fixed the issue. As long as I keep the post short enough.

It seems disabling the ad management mod fixed the issue. The preview is working great here. Also when I replied to your PM my browser didnt hang when I sent the message. I wonder if its a certain version of AMM causing the hangs (you cant run this site without the ads of course).

When I add this red text to this message, preview stops working. Nothing to do with the color but the length of the post.

The "other" apostrophe ´ (which is the one you´d place on top of vowels) seems to work fine with preview.

There´s also a possibility that it´s not just the apo. My keyboard is Finnish, so my apo lies just next to enter button:

http://frontype.com/keyboarding/540px-Computer-keyboard-Sweden.svg.png

Ah, nope it´s not, the USA keyboard has the apo in the same place.

I´m having no troubles whatsoever previewing this post.

Let's see.

Ten minutes and counting when trying to preview the above text. But if it cannot be fixed, it's not the end of the world; one can always edit a submitted post if there's a typo

To me the word sounds like someone is derping on twitter.