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Whisper To A Screeeeeeeeeeam - AZ Mix - azwayne - 02-01-2016
So I felt myself losing control of this mix after working on it for about a week and decided to call it done and just post it. Not satisfied with certain points but I think it still passes. Maybe need a touch more compression on the vocals (not that I'm not already smashing them to paste...) and was having trouble adding punch to the mix, partly because I don't have an interface and wasn't willing to spend hours drawing in fader movements for the guitar bus. (SONAR doesn't read mouse movements that well for rapid fader riding like I was trying to do.)
Oh, and an observation for all you electronic percussion people. If you listen closely, you'll observe that the hi-hat in the overheads appears on one side of the image but in the stereo room mics, it's on the other side. So I opted to go with the mono mic instead, for what little natural ambiance I added. Something to pay attention to if you're making/mixing tracks.
Anyway, give me your opinions. Comments DEFINITELY welcome on this one since I was having trouble figuring a few things out.
RE: Whisper To A Screeeeeeeeeeam - AZ Mix - sysrq - 03-01-2016
Good song, only thing is it needs a different singer with a bit brighter voice.
RE: Whisper To A Screeeeeeeeeeam - AZ Mix - azwayne - 04-01-2016
So I made some tweaks to this and I think I got it to settle down more or less.
I realized that part of my problem was the overheads. There was just way too much shimmer from the cymbals and that was masking stuff. So after fixing that, I added about another 5dB of vocal compression (for a total of like 30+) and made some adjustments to the background vocals. Tweaked the guitar EQ a bit to try to get the balance to feel better, despite the fact that I have them summed to mono and hard panned with a Haas delay in the other channel (down 5dB). I also adjusted the bass compression and reset that level which I feel made a large difference in the overall power.
Anyway, there are not a great deal of changes this version to the prior but I think they were substantive in the end product. Hopefully you lot think this is an improvement.
RE: Whisper To A Screeeeeeeeeeam - AZ Mix - sysrq - 04-01-2016
Thanks nice mix. Guitars sound crunchy enough despite being muffled. Instruments and everything blend quite well together due to fairly correct tonal weighing. Can't hear any ear fatiguing frequencies.