Southern Sirens: 'Rachel'

[pauli]

A more glued sound, yes. That's a very good way to put it. I'd say bringing the band a little closer together and letting the "room" provide the width more than the individual channels would make the best job of it.

Listening with headphones

Balances and instruments as such sounds good to me. No muddyness, nice separation. So I like it very much. Your avatone investment must have been very good one!

I agree with Pauli, violins sound maybe too bright when accompanying the vox. Maybe more automation there: when behind vox, the violins could be more saturated, and when the solo starts, main solo instrument could step forward (saturation off).

Bg vocals sound great with stereo effect, but I wonder if they are too separate from the band. They could be just perfect with fuller band/arrangement, but with so sparse instrumentation they sound too separate to me. I think Pauli was referreing also to this effect.

You have separated all the instruments very well. But are they too separated. I think this genre would benefit of more glued sound. The illusion of band playing together is quite important for the audience of this style.