Tears in the Rain

[pauli]

You're right about the upper end fatigue here, while I listen with fresh ears. The steel string guitars on this mix are very difficult to balance and it sounds like I gave them too much priority in the high mids. The shaker should probably be panned more centrally so it's less distracting.

Your point about experience as a player equating to the innate ability to mix that instrument is well taken and I hope I didn't come off that way. The means by which experience "assists" me here is that I hear some unnatural tonal properties in the instruments to which others would be passively aware but unsure, and only because attempting to record acoustic guitars without learning a bit about mic placement taught me some bitter lessons.

The main issue I'm hearing on my mix right now is that there's a looooot of pick noise that I probably "got used to" and eventually ignored while trying to sort out other more pressing issues with tone... and it's a compression issue as much as an EQ issue. Instinct tells me a slight HF roll-off and faster attack times would resolve the issue, but I've found these guitars somewhat unresponsive to normal mixing techniques so I'm sure it'll be more complicated than that.

Cheers for feedback.. I'll go give the multi another look.