Voelund: Comfort Lives In Belief

[Pedaling Prince]

I'm very old-school in my approach to mixing. I even like to "limit" myself or pretend certain modern conveniences are not available to me. I also use compression a lot more sparingly than most.

My approach is very similar, though I have no objection to adding an effect when a particular song calls for it. As for compression, I see that as a mixing tool to be used on specific tracks; I never use it in the final master.

I felt that all the mixes I listened to of "Comfort" needed some serious amounts of low cut, which I did on my mix. It will most certainly be a bit brighter and more open than the mixes I listened to. I hope that those of you who listen and critique don't find it too thin.

Actually, I'm afraid I did find it rather thin. I see what you were trying to go for but I think you rolled off far too much of the bass. This song needs a nice phat bass sound; nothing wrong with trying a brighter approach but the bass seems entirely missing in action here...

However, aside from the lack of bass, and aside from the vocals being a little too low in the mix (they really started to get buried towards the middle), I felt the overall balance was excellent, and I loved the stereo panning choices, particularly your guitars. I also loved your surprise of panning the "telephone effect" and regular vocal of "comfort lives in belief" at the end to the left and right was a very surprising and very effective choice.

One interesting thing: rolling off the low frequencies did bring out that deep resonance Voelund's voice.