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YOU CROSSED THE LINE, ONE TOO MANY TIMES (BKM's mix) - BKM - 13-03-2017 Hi everyone, As an avid metalhead, I felt like tackling this one, especially after having mixed two rather "tame" songs lately. I made it a habit to write down things I learned during the mix, so here's some thoughts on this one:
As always, I really appreciate any and all comments. While I'm confident that this one turned out pretty okay, there's always much room to improve RE: YOU CROSSED THE LINE, ONE TOO MANY TIMES (BKM's mix) - BKM - 14-03-2017 Okay, so after taking another good listen this morning, I noticed two things: 1) the vox at some points got drowned out 2) I might have been overzealous with those 100 Hz cuts after yesterdays long mastering session. I brough some of that meaty 100 back in and went back into the mix to turn the vocals up in general but also automate them a bit more to bring out some of the details. At the same time, I took out just a smidge of 2k because I thought it was a bit paper-y sounding. I also messed around a bit more with the loudness part of my mastering chain. The limiter was pumping a bit, so I engaged another very transparent compressor at a 1:1.2 ratio before it to 1) shapen the transients a bit and 2) to bring out the low level details a bit more. This added a good amount of glue and fatness and also brought up the final volume by another 0.5 dB. (I don't consider myself part of the loudness war but I do find it really interesting to see how one would arrive at such a result. I actually think the track sounds less ... stuffed now despite being louder.) |