Who I Am Mix

[Pedaling Prince]

Hi

Realy Nice Page,

hope u enjoy my first mix (without master)

OK, whoa dude! What in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did you do to the drums?! I thought the last mix I heard was too punchy; with this one I just about tripped scrambling for the volume control when the drums started (I tend to walk around the room when listening to a mix).

My first recommendation is to drop ANY processing you applied to the drums, aside from any low frequency boost you applied to the kick; THAT sounded good, aside from a little too much of the kicks "skin" impact which you might tame a little. And dial the level of the drums overall back a notch or two; they should "punch" but not THAT much...

Second, the fiddle, banjo, actually ALL the backing instruments were WAY too low in the mix. Yes, with star vocal performances like these it's important to keep them out front but again there's such thing as too much of a good thing; the instruments are begging for higher levels for more presence.

Speaking of the vocals, that was the plus side. Aside from the backing vocals being a little too low I'm impressed with the stereo "space" you managed to give that single backing vocal; how did you do that?