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Secretariat: 'Over The Top' (critiques plz)
#1
Hey guys,

this is my mix of Secretariat: 'Over The Top'.

I wanted a drum sound with lots of ambience but still enough smack. Lots of compression and saturation gave me the sound i was looking for. It might be a bit much though...
As for the guitars. I wanted darker, low-mid beefy guitars. Boosted 500Hz quite a bit. Normally a "boxy" frequency but it worked here.
Vocals on the other hand sat in the high-end of the freq sepctrum. (5db high-shelf). And a ton of compression on the vocal, mainly to even out the chages in volume. (Yay, parallel compression)
Bass a bit of tape, eq, and comp. Not much.
Hammond, just eq and chorus.
BG vocals with a doubler and compression.
Thats it.

Overall I think the mix might be to compressed and it should breath more. Please leave feedback.

Cheers,
LukasAngel


.mp3    Secretariat_OverTheTop_v1.mp3 --  (Download: 9.05 MB)


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#2
Nice mix man! Did you use parallel compression only in vocals or in everything?
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#3
Hey there,

thank you for your comment.

I cant remember what I did here exactly but I often use Parallel Compression on Vocals and Drums.
To be honest I almost always use the same preset for TDR Kotelnikov by TDR Labs. It's called "Smasher" and I often blend it 50/50. If I want less agressivness I slow the release down and or blend more of the dry signal in.

Hope that helped Wink

Cheers,
LukasAngel
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