Colour Me Red - my mix

[Herb Felho]

Solid balance here

The only thing I see wrong from my perspective is the lack of body in the guitars. It sounds like you took a lot of the mids out.
For example if we take the bass as reference and compare how that works with guitars, the guitars are really thin sounding.
So if I mute the bass track the overall mix will have no mid base to stand on.

I could be wrong.. maybe the brights are enhanced and it's making me feel like some mids are missing.


anyways this is a taste thing i supposed because I overdid it the mids in my mix but I honestly feel like this is lacking in that area..
everything else is good.

Hey Shul, thanks for the comment, appreciate it!

Now, I guess it´s an actively discussed topic how much low mids you allow to reside in your mixes. And since this is also a highly subjective one like you said there are of course no "rules" that anyone has to follow. Like we discussed your mix is more on the warmer mid heavy side, so assuming you are used to the sound your own mix a lot obviously other mixes may seem to lack those qualities even more.
So for me when in doubt I like to reference my mixes to pro level mixes a lot and see what´s going on there in terms of frequency content. And when you do that you will see that there is a very strong tendency to slim and crisp low end and low mids to gain overall clarity, so I would rather be geared to that and I´m pretty sure I´m not too far off, at least in terms of overall tonality. Not claiming to be able to compete with the top level guys of course, but we all try our best...

Thanks again!
Herb