Four Grahams - DWM Mix & Master

[davidwmontgomery]

This was a fun song. I've mixed this one using only stock plug-ins and didn't like what I came up with, so I came back a month or so later to try with what I normally use. I then took the stems (Drums, gars, etc) and fed them through my API 3124+ just to see what would happen. And wow... It added some great weight and beef to the tracks.

I have 3 "mixes" up. The first is a Mastered version. The "final product" if you will, and the next two are the mixes (not mastered) one the stock mix digitally summed, and the next is individually stem "printed" through my API pre's then digitally summed in Ableton.

I do feel that I could go back and make the song a bit more dynamic, i feel that the performance is a little flat. Its just all out all the time. The chorus doest punch like one should... I could go back and automate that, but I won't.

Curious to hear what you think about the mix though!

[Shul]

Hello david

*vocal has a resonating freq. at 0:28 .. where he says crazYYYYYYYY and meEEEEEEEE@# use a narrow Q to cut it off.
*Toms are sounding too muddy and with an excess of lows..
*Guitars are sounding ok
*snare is sounding too soft for me
*Balance overall is pretty solid.

Keep it up I'm sure you can improve it.