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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,
Lukas

Nice mix man! Did you use parallel compression only in vocals or in everything?

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

Cheers,
Lukas