My Mix Actions: 'Devil's Words'

[Inisor]

Hi Mike,

I'll appreciate your comments.

Good Luck!

[Mike Senior]

The vocals are coming through pretty clearly here, so that's good, but overall it sounds as if you've pushed several aspects of this mix a bit too far. The upper octaves are reaching saturation point, and I suspect that HF boosts on the cymbals and percussion (and everything else!) are the culprits there. It sounds like you might be EQ'ing a bit too much in Solo, rather than judging things in context. As is it, the HF arms-race has left your low end feeling weak and flabby, and I can hardly feel the kick at all, where it feels that the kick should really drive a track like this along.

I think it might also help you to back off some of the longer reverb effects you're using, and put in a few shorter ones instead. At the moment the reverb tails are washing out the mix slightly, and distancing everything from the listener too much for this style, but the effects still haven't really given a good sense of blend -- it's the shorter early-reflections patches that tend to do that better.