New Mix

[Pedaling Prince]

Hello!

My name is Marcus.

Sorry, my English is not so good and it must therefore be converted to Google, I hope that we still understand well.
I was on the page and the song was really great!
Short and loaded into the sequencer

I would if the mixer and the other says it interesting how he has handled the bass drum, I like the sound of the bass drum, which has such a nice splash in it, tell me please how you should manage it, you cool be out here in the forum.

Here is my mix look forward to your feedback.

Ps: The previewmix like it very much.

OK. Not sure how well this will translate through Google, which worries me because I don't want to offend you; a lot of what I have to say is positive but that might be lost in the translation. So let me try to keep this simple:

You need to start over from square one with this mix but not because it sounds bad, only because it's not an appropriate sound for COUNTRY.

Honestly, I LOVED the sound of the drums here, and the pounding bass sounded excellent, but they both sounded more appropriate to heavy rock than country. You might try this approach on some of the material in the Rock/Punk/Metal section of the site; it'd likely sound pretty awesome on some of THOSE tracks.

Speaking of which, what exactly did you do to the drums, anyway? How did you get the nice full "punch" from the snare?

There was one small problem, though. Everything felt collapsed to the center; did you pan ANYTHING or did you mix everything dead center?

To fix that, you might try this:

First, listen to the drum overheads, try to determine where each drum is in the stereo image, then pan the positions of each of the close mics as close as you can get them to those positions; that should give you a good stereo balance on the drums.

Now look at the individual instrument tracks and imagine in your mind's eye a stage where each of those tracks represents a performer; make sure your performers are spread comfortably on your mental "stage." Now, adjust the pan on each track until each instrument is in the place where you picture that performer in your mind.

Vocals, of course, will be dead center. Use a smooth reverb on them, something that sounds like the reverb on a concert hall stage. Keep it subtle; if you can hear it clearly when you solo the track but not when you're playing your entire mix you've probably got it perfect.

Now, once you do all that, to get that open country sound here's what you might try:

Now the only compression or EQ you should apply at this stage is to the vocals. A gentle compression ratio of 2:1 with a threshold around -15 or so should be enough. Then you might "air" the vocals a little with an EQ boost around 12 kHz or so (just five to 10 dB) and cut back a bit (three to five dB) around 300-350 kHz.

Also on the vocals you'll want to apply a high pass filter around 80 Hz to get rid of any "rumble" from the mic noise or air conditioning used in the studio; it'll help clear some space in the frequency spread for your bass and kick drum.

Now try running the whole mix without applying ANY processing to ANY of the remaining tracks, no EQ, no compression, no reverb, nothing. Given the quality of these tracks (these were a Telefunken microphone demo) that may be all you'll need to do, other than balancing the instruments against the vocal.

If it sounds a bit too flat, try using the reverb you're using for the vocal as a send effect and put ALL the tracks through it, as if they were all on the same stage with the vocalist. Again, just try to keep the reverb effect subtle. It should be almost subliminal; it's just there to give some "presence."

If you decide to try this, I'd love to hear the results.