20-02-2018, 01:00 PM
Hi Lukas,
Wow, love this song, I'll put it in the list of stuff to mix
So I start listening to the track and there's this cool guitar. I expect the track to explode when the drums come in, and it doesn't. At least until the vocals come up, the drums should be a lot bigger and badder than they are. There's no bass, so it feels like there's an empty space that the kick could fill better. The snare could have a lot more ring and openness to it. It feels small somehow. It needs space, tail, dirtiness... Bring up that supercrushed room! Pump it up!!
The guitar that enters later in the intro, the more funky one, seems a bit out of control, a little harsh and loud. The voice is definitely buried by the guitars, checked in mono as well. Probably it's not a volume issue, but the guitars having much more "meat" than the voice. In my opinion, the guitars are secondary to the voice anyway.
The mix has good separation and just little balance problems, but I'm missing like a ton of meat down there.
Dunno what references are you using, but check out anything from Living Color to see what I mean.
Good job overall, a little conservative though.
Cheers!
Wow, love this song, I'll put it in the list of stuff to mix
So I start listening to the track and there's this cool guitar. I expect the track to explode when the drums come in, and it doesn't. At least until the vocals come up, the drums should be a lot bigger and badder than they are. There's no bass, so it feels like there's an empty space that the kick could fill better. The snare could have a lot more ring and openness to it. It feels small somehow. It needs space, tail, dirtiness... Bring up that supercrushed room! Pump it up!!
The guitar that enters later in the intro, the more funky one, seems a bit out of control, a little harsh and loud. The voice is definitely buried by the guitars, checked in mono as well. Probably it's not a volume issue, but the guitars having much more "meat" than the voice. In my opinion, the guitars are secondary to the voice anyway.
The mix has good separation and just little balance problems, but I'm missing like a ton of meat down there.
Dunno what references are you using, but check out anything from Living Color to see what I mean.
Good job overall, a little conservative though.
Cheers!
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