Hold on You - James May

[muthomi]

I enjoyed this song's groove while mixing, superb recordings, and that slide guitar ... too slick

I welcome your feedback on this mix.

Muthomi

[Obelix]

Overall, good sounding mix. Snare drum in this song was the though one. A little bit more low end on bass , and thats it.

[muthomi]

Overall, good sounding mix. Snare drum in this song was the though one. A little bit more low end on bass , and thats it.

Thanks Obelix for giving it a listen.

I didn't quite understand your comment regarding the snare, kindly clarify when you have a moment.

Regarding the bass, I will add some low end on bass and see what that sounds like.

I mixed this on headphones and I don't have studio monitors speakers at the moment. When it came to listening it over the apple earpods it came across as too boomy and dark. Any ideas with that?

[Dangerous]

Hi Muthomi,

Listening to your mix, in it's own right, I think it stands up pretty well, There are although, some tonal issues that I think probably relate back to your use of headphones for the mixing purpose. The main issue for me is a strong build up in the low mids region up to the 500hz mark that's really clouding the mix over.

I have added a version of your track that I've eq-ed a bit to try and balance things up for comparison. I found a -6dB shelving cut up to 530hz with a slight boost at 65hz helped matters. I also removed some harshness at 965hz ,2400hz and 10khz which become apparent when the mids were cleaned up. This is just a rough attempt at correction using my headphones and macbook whist sitting on the couch, so it's far from perfect, but I think you'll get the point. Besides these tonal balance moves are best applied to the individual tracks within the mixing session.

I hope this helps, The mix otherwise is pretty good. Referencing your mix with commercial tracks would be beneficial in this respect.

Dave

[muthomi]

Dave,

Thanks for the recommendations from last week.

I went back to the mix and made another attempt to correct the problems you mentioned. I have attached new mix below. Let me know if it has actually improved.

As for referencing to similar songs, I will definitely look more into that.

Sam