(08-05-2014, 11:14 AM)Spede Wrote: The overall tonality in this mix is very good, apart from the slight muddiness in the kick drum (extremely hard to deal with here) and the slight brightness with the lead vocal.
You could try to put a brickwall limiter (like L1) into the vocal before LA2A emu and catch some of the loudest peaks before LA2A sees them. This way the LA2A will have to do less work with the loud peaks and probably in the end you could apply more overall compression which would level out the vocal even further. Compressing lead vocal is an art where you want to make sure all the quiet nuances will be audible but it'll never jump out and detach from the mix. Oh and it needs to sound good too
Thanks for the tip. Regarding the kick, I was actually wanting a large boomy sound. I guess I might have went overboard with the boomy part.
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