Bounced everything to some new analog toys and back, did a quick mix with a few plugins and some mastering. Pretty neat track!
EDIT:
Ok so my original post was super confusing, so I'm redoing it.
****analog stem mix***
printed everything through my analog chain, (~4 hours) added a few plugins on certain things (ie lead vocals)... after printing I did a quick 15 minute mix. But then I was worried it had too much lows (I am my own worst enemy sometimes) So I tweaked it some more:
****analog stem mix_butchered lows and few other tweaks etc***
After bouncing everything through analog I put on a old 70s reference and wow-- the bass was different. I matched it to my old reference best I could- using Reaper EQ on a few tracks and master channel I subtracted lows, added more mids and highs. It quickly became too thin, so I made a 3 parallel sub groups in Reaper for instruments, vocals, drums/bass and using ReaComp on each subgroup, gently blended these into the mix. It was a pretty mild change, almost not worth mentioning but probably has more impact than I think. Also I messed with delay on at least one of the tracks, and level of one of the synth tracks.
***MIX 3***
Revisiting this one, since I already did so much work. I took a different approach, more kick focused, more going to center channel. Mastering stage was very heavy handed, so maybe I'll get a chance to redo the mix haha... maybe tell myself to use the reference while mixing? oh well. At least I know what reference I want to use next.
EDIT:
Ok so my original post was super confusing, so I'm redoing it.
****analog stem mix***
printed everything through my analog chain, (~4 hours) added a few plugins on certain things (ie lead vocals)... after printing I did a quick 15 minute mix. But then I was worried it had too much lows (I am my own worst enemy sometimes) So I tweaked it some more:
****analog stem mix_butchered lows and few other tweaks etc***
After bouncing everything through analog I put on a old 70s reference and wow-- the bass was different. I matched it to my old reference best I could- using Reaper EQ on a few tracks and master channel I subtracted lows, added more mids and highs. It quickly became too thin, so I made a 3 parallel sub groups in Reaper for instruments, vocals, drums/bass and using ReaComp on each subgroup, gently blended these into the mix. It was a pretty mild change, almost not worth mentioning but probably has more impact than I think. Also I messed with delay on at least one of the tracks, and level of one of the synth tracks.
***MIX 3***
Revisiting this one, since I already did so much work. I took a different approach, more kick focused, more going to center channel. Mastering stage was very heavy handed, so maybe I'll get a chance to redo the mix haha... maybe tell myself to use the reference while mixing? oh well. At least I know what reference I want to use next.