01-06-2015, 11:18 PM
Hi there, when I listened to the first version I thought it was a reasonable balance but yes, a bit over-compressed so snare and kick were pushed too far back and had lost a lot of their transient impact. I also thought it was quite bass light. Overall though pretty decent.
I'm just not sure what happened with version two though. It sounds like you've put the entire mix through a 70Hz high-pass filter and also massively boosted the treble. It's very, very thin and to be honest quite painful to listen to. To give some statistical backing to this, I ran your version 2 and Foo Fighter's The Pretender through Voxengo's Curve EQ spectrum match and these are the points it came out with - first column is frequency points, second column is dB gain. So it's suggesting a 19dB (!!) boost at 65Hz and a cut of anything between -6 and -12 dB between 3-15kHz. That's huge.
32.21 15.71
40.87 18.34
51.86 18.54
65.81 19.29
83.51 12.17
105.97 1.85
134.47 -3.6
170.63 -3.77
216.53 2.03
274.76 -3.49
348.67 -3.25
442.44 0.1
561.44 2.84
712.45 -0.39
904.07 -0.37
1,147.23 -5.89
1,455.79 -0.98
1,847.34 -0.26
2,344.2 -4.39
2,974.7 -4.45
3,774.78 -6.16
4,790.05 -9.54
6,078.39 -12.93
7,713.24 -10.61
9,787.8 -10.52
12,420.34 -9.53
15,760.93 -11.79
20,000 -2.98
I think you either really need to address your monitoring situation (which seems to be massively bass-heavy/treble light) and/or make much more use of reference tracks when mixing. As I said above, balance-wise things are sounding fine between individual instruments, but the overall tonal balance is way out.
Sorry if this sounds brutal, it's not meant to! I do think you've got some fairly major issues that need addressing though and I hope this helps you towards sorting them out.
I'm just not sure what happened with version two though. It sounds like you've put the entire mix through a 70Hz high-pass filter and also massively boosted the treble. It's very, very thin and to be honest quite painful to listen to. To give some statistical backing to this, I ran your version 2 and Foo Fighter's The Pretender through Voxengo's Curve EQ spectrum match and these are the points it came out with - first column is frequency points, second column is dB gain. So it's suggesting a 19dB (!!) boost at 65Hz and a cut of anything between -6 and -12 dB between 3-15kHz. That's huge.
32.21 15.71
40.87 18.34
51.86 18.54
65.81 19.29
83.51 12.17
105.97 1.85
134.47 -3.6
170.63 -3.77
216.53 2.03
274.76 -3.49
348.67 -3.25
442.44 0.1
561.44 2.84
712.45 -0.39
904.07 -0.37
1,147.23 -5.89
1,455.79 -0.98
1,847.34 -0.26
2,344.2 -4.39
2,974.7 -4.45
3,774.78 -6.16
4,790.05 -9.54
6,078.39 -12.93
7,713.24 -10.61
9,787.8 -10.52
12,420.34 -9.53
15,760.93 -11.79
20,000 -2.98
I think you either really need to address your monitoring situation (which seems to be massively bass-heavy/treble light) and/or make much more use of reference tracks when mixing. As I said above, balance-wise things are sounding fine between individual instruments, but the overall tonal balance is way out.
Sorry if this sounds brutal, it's not meant to! I do think you've got some fairly major issues that need addressing though and I hope this helps you towards sorting them out.