Colour me Red mixed by Dcp

[joelonsdale]

The music sounds very underwhelming when it kicks in - you probably need to make the acoustic intro sound WORSE than the music to redress the balance. Note sure that electric guitar sound is working - sounds like a broken amp! Love the Leslie effect on the keys though... I like the slap on the vocal too. I think the guitars need work, but the rest sounds great!

I'm already running the intro guitars through Izotope Vinyl on the most degraded settings, how do I get any worse than that?! They're already distorted and filtered to hell! The electric guitars are actually the clean DIs run through Softube Saturation Knob and a RedWirez Marshall 1960a Cab impulse. The acoustics are actually pretty heavely processed with EQ, I wanted them to be moreso the "air" around the electrics, hence why they're scooped out so much. It allows the broken sound of the electrics have it's space in the center.

Thanks for the critique,
Dcp

You can try to reduce the size of the intro guitars with subtractive EQ (low and high cut for instance), using a mono instead of a stereo reverb or panning the guitar to one side. My humble opinion is that the intro guitar currently sounds more aggressive, louder and more impressive than the whole band when they come in and making the intro guitar sound smaller is probably the solution. By the way, "destroying" audio can make it sound great - like a guitar amp does - so perhaps find another way to achieve your goal...