21-05-2016, 05:12 AM
I'll note that a couple of mixes here dropped the sleigh bells on the intro entirely.
That banjo is tough to handle, ain't it?
I had to dig into an EQ and knock that upper note down a tad to get it to stop stabbing at me every time he hit it and that helped it blend with the mandolin a bit better.
Sounds like you too had trouble figuring out what to do with the tin whistle. It's a nice addition but it's sort of uninteresting most of the time and doesn't make you want to bring it up too high. Shame too because it's reasonably well played and a nice sound.
Overall, I don't think this is a bad mix. Might bring up the lead vocal a little bit towards the end to help him stay over the background vocals. I also notice you did fairly wide panning on them. I debated that but don't like to pan vocals past about a third either way but I guess that can work for background, especially if they're supposed to be more "crowd" type sounds. Man, every time I feel like I'm doing reasonably well and getting pretty decent sounding mixes, I get a multi-track like this one and just think to myself, "Who am I trying to kid? I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing." I'm sure others have felt the same.
That banjo is tough to handle, ain't it?
I had to dig into an EQ and knock that upper note down a tad to get it to stop stabbing at me every time he hit it and that helped it blend with the mandolin a bit better.
Sounds like you too had trouble figuring out what to do with the tin whistle. It's a nice addition but it's sort of uninteresting most of the time and doesn't make you want to bring it up too high. Shame too because it's reasonably well played and a nice sound.
Overall, I don't think this is a bad mix. Might bring up the lead vocal a little bit towards the end to help him stay over the background vocals. I also notice you did fairly wide panning on them. I debated that but don't like to pan vocals past about a third either way but I guess that can work for background, especially if they're supposed to be more "crowd" type sounds. Man, every time I feel like I'm doing reasonably well and getting pretty decent sounding mixes, I get a multi-track like this one and just think to myself, "Who am I trying to kid? I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing." I'm sure others have felt the same.
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