(20-06-2016, 02:01 PM)Dangerous Wrote: Nice mix Daniel,
Wondering if the snare is slightly too loud and possibly dry sounding. Maybe some snare reverb to help it sit in the mix a bit better. Can be a tough thing to judge all the same. Just a thought.

Great Work
Dave

(21-06-2016, 09:51 PM)loweche6 Wrote: Almost 95% of the time, my mistakes are glaring mistakes that I only pickup on after bouncing. It's amazing what our ears can adjust to while mixing, but take our heads out of that zone, and BAM, there's your mistake, dummy!

I agree with Dave, I think the snare is too dry. On your whole kit, give this a try. I love adding a small room reverb on the drums, and parallel process that with a long reverb (and sometimes I feed the small room directly into the large room verb, as well as sending it directly to main or guitar buss). I can hear a longer verb on the drums at parts, but I think adding the small room will add a richness to the tone of your drums. If you're doing this already, maybe bring up the level of the small room a touch, or bring the send to the large room up a bit.

I think your drums may not be too loud, but all your guitars could come up a bit. You voice seems to be sitting properly above the drums. I think you just have to play with the gits some more.


Something I did on the bass was to add sustain with a transient shaper. It felt too staccato for the song for me.

Nice work so far! Maybe a bit more long term automation for movement of the song. Again, mostly in the guitars, to provide some push between some sections, and within verses, also for movement.

You have some pretty good tones set up, now it's time to varnish, buff, varnish, buff, wax, buff, and polish! :-D

Draper

(22-06-2016, 03:52 AM)RyanThompson Wrote: Nice stuff. Definitely agree the snares a bit dry, mainly in the less busy intro, id want to hear a little sauce on the snare...the sauce could back down during the denser part of the arrangement. I was going nuts on a bounce earlier today, there was a twidgle in the mixdown that I swear on my life you cant even hear it when playing the session file. Very unsettling to hear actual differences from the session to the mixdown, i dont know if thats a common thing.

Id like to hear more vocal. I feel like your vocal level is in the realm of where reference mixes can hang at, so i dont think youre way off base where youve got it now, but id like a little more of it. Think it could drive a little harder.

Overall really nice work. Thanks for sharing.

(23-06-2016, 05:50 AM)hanibal005 Wrote: The mix is good but perhaps a bit too safe. It's like there aren't any major spotlights.