Louis Cressy Redux

[Mixinthecloud]

New approach and better results, I hope.

Take a listen, lend an ear and leave comments. All greatly appreciated.

[comatosed]

Love the vocals and the separation in the guitars, maybe a little too much verb on the vocals but I think that's just my personal taste.

My only real critique, the organ seems to get lost in denser parts of the song. I can still here it, just, but it's just not as present as it is at other times. One other small thing was that for me, as a drummer, the drums are panned the wrong way round. At least, for a righty lol

[Mixinthecloud]

Love the vocals and the separation in the guitars, maybe a little too much verb on the vocals but I think that's just my personal taste.

My only real critique, the organ seems to get lost in denser parts of the song. I can still here it, just, but it's just not as present as it is at other times. One other small thing was that for me, as a drummer, the drums are panned the wrong way round. At least, for a righty lol

Two marks for you, my friend. I am still struggling with the environment for the Hammond. I'll get it. Now about the drummer's handed-ness. I think the tracks are samples. Two points. With samples, handed-ness is an option. Second, as a listenier, I mix from the audience perspective so your hi to low, left to right, is the opposite from the audience perspective. However, the musician's perspective in the mix is a valid approach too. Check out the next mix as it will be done with both issues addressed.

Thanks so much for your input.

[Mixinthecloud]

In deference to Comatosed and his/her input I am posting RevA for review.
The Hammond was given a better space and the drums were mixed from a right handed drummers perspective.

[Mixinthecloud]

Put some fresher ears on this again and revamped my mix playback gain staging for the most headroom I could muster. I like the way it pops off the sound field.

Comments are always and greatly appreciated.

[tjmtruth]

New approach and better results, I hope.

Take a listen, lend an ear and leave comments. All greatly appreciated.

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Adam,

Great mix, man! I can hear everything perfectly clear and nice! The very first mix that I am responding to, in my opinion, is your BEST one out of all the ones you have uploaded for this song. Sometimes when we overthink things and go back into a mix too many times we lose some magic.....not always true but many times it is the case. Anyway, this mix is the best. I think the vocal is perfect, love the delay on the guitar in the break/fill section, the organ sounds great too (it got too loud in your final mix).

Side note but with a purpose: I am currently working with a great musician and composer who has played with some of the greatest Jazz musicians in the world, including Bob Mintzer, who has played on some of his songs (I have songs containing Bob Mintzer solos that nobody in the world has heard yet!!!!!!!....but I digress). My point is, that he is an extraordinary organist. He is VERY picky about how the organ sounds in his music. I have mixed his organ making it more consistent and present in a mix and he goes nuts! He is soooooooooooo particular on the volume. The organ, I have learned from him, in a dense song should be weaving in and out in a very natural fashion....it cannot be THERE all the time. His volume curves are unpredictable to me but if I don't follow them, as he played them, I'm in the dog house.

My point above is that in this song too, the organ presents itself as a backdrop at times, and at other times it gives you an ear-candy treat. THAT is the way the organ is supposed to be and I think YOU got that magic from the organ in this first mix.

Other thoughts: Mix balance is great....drums sound great....you got a great sound on the hats and cymbals (I've got to work on those in my mix)......just a great job. I'm digging this, your first mix a lot bro.

Later,

Tom

[Mixinthecloud]

New approach and better results, I hope.

Take a listen, lend an ear and leave comments. All greatly appreciated.

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Adam,

Great mix, man! I can hear everything perfectly clear and nice! The very first mix that I am responding to, in my opinion, is your BEST one out of all the ones you have uploaded for this song. Sometimes when we overthink things and go back into a mix too many times we lose some magic.....not always true but many times it is the case. Anyway, this mix is the best. I think the vocal is perfect, love the delay on the guitar in the break/fill section, the organ sounds great too (it got too loud in your final mix).

Side note but with a purpose: I am currently working with a great musician and composer who has played with some of the greatest Jazz musicians in the world, including Bob Mintzer, who has played on some of his songs (I have songs containing Bob Mintzer solos that nobody in the world has heard yet!!!!!!!....but I digress). My point is, that he is an extraordinary organist. He is VERY picky about how the organ sounds in his music. I have mixed his organ making it more consistent and present in a mix and he goes nuts! He is soooooooooooo particular on the volume. The organ, I have learned from him, in a dense song should be weaving in and out in a very natural fashion....it cannot be THERE all the time. His volume curves are unpredictable to me but if I don't follow them, as he played them, I'm in the dog house.

My point above is that in this song too, the organ presents itself as a backdrop at times, and at other times it gives you an ear-candy treat. THAT is the way the organ is supposed to be and I think YOU got that magic from the organ in this first mix.

Other thoughts: Mix balance is great....drums sound great....you got a great sound on the hats and cymbals (I've got to work on those in my mix)......just a great job. I'm digging this, your first mix a lot bro.

Later,

Tom

Wow. I'm blushing!
Sounds like your organist friend can be a handful. Thanks so much for the encouraging words.

[LukasL]

Really good mix

Only thing bothering me a bit is the right-panned snare verb, it's very noticeable to me and kinda distracts from the music, aswell es mess up the stereo imaging of the snare(at least for me). Also the reverberation sounds very boxy.

Really like the delay on the guitars though, very tasty <3

Lukas

[Mixinthecloud]

Really good mix

Only thing bothering me a bit is the right-panned snare verb, it's very noticeable to me and kinda distracts from the music, aswell es mess up the stereo imaging of the snare(at least for me). Also the reverberation sounds very boxy.

Really like the delay on the guitars though, very tasty <3

Lukas

Yes. On mix 3 the snare reverb appears to be coming from the right only. This is really not the case, but it is masked on the left side somehow. It is not panned or otherwise biased towards a side. But you are right, it is a bit distracting.

[The Wizzards]

Sound good but for me it's a little bit small especially drums IMO this kind of track need to be fat and little bit powerful.