Finlay - 'Same Kind Of Life' Mix

[bigmuffpi]

Hi there, i'm just registered to this community and i choose this song to try the Brauer "multibus technique" in ITB.
I choose to keep the drums pretty dry except the snare/claps which has some ambient. Added a couple of cymbals in reverse, hi-pass ed the synth bass track at 80hz to give room for the kick drum and the toms which i boost at about 100hz and cutting 3db at about 350/400hz to get rid of the muddy tone.
A little shelf to the leadvox to add air, comp with a GR of about 2/3db with 4:1 ratio,medium attack fast release) and then sanded to the delay and plate reverb aux. The backing vocals was duplicated adding 30ms of delay to the 2nd one and panned L>R to get a stereo sound.
I have also eqed the piano tracks boosting 2db at 4khz and cutting 3db @ 600/700hz. All the tracks (minus the leadvocals) was routed to a dummy output and then sended post fader to the ABCD busses to mixing into compression.
Last, the ABCD and the leadvox was routed to the main bus with a compressor to glue the mix.
The mix was not mastered.
Ref 0dbvu/-18dbfs
Let me know what do you think about!
Cheers

[loupi]

great balance! it sounds to me though as if something is holding back the mix, not allowing it to breath, maybe the mainbuscompressor? the mainvocal maybe a little thin and harsh, but it stands out great.

[bigmuffpi]

thanks for your comment loupi. i'll try to reduce the amount of GR in the mainbus comp or maybe raise the attack time of it. Also, i noticed too that harshness in the main vocal so i 'll hunt and find the freq to attenuate.