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Hmm. Gave it a go .

Update 1.0:

Decided to re visit - A few things were bothering me and I wanted to try and make it a bit smoother.

As the raw tracks are so good, I have found that this is a really great track to experiment with. Things like balance and different plugins, etc, as you can really hear what is going on. I feel you really do have to tread carefully to hopefully enhance what is there to taste, rather than making things subjectively worse.

- Fixed clashing snares in the drum & loop track that was really bugging me on every other snare hit.
- Re balanced the mix to attempt to get a more smooth mix.
- Touch of eq and compression here and there to smooth out the bass and hi-hat, etc.
- Tried to add some hopefully subtle overall ambience on the mix bus as I have never tried this before, but felt it might work here. I think it might make it a touch too warm (I did eq out the low end of the reverb) but I quite like the overall effect I think.

Update: 1.1 - Different limiter, not hit quite as hard...

Cheers!

I like the tone of your bass.. sounds very full.

Hi!

Thanks for the listen and comments.

I am thinking today that the low bass might need to be tamed a bit with a touch of C6 or something on the low end? I am also feeling the need to do something about the hi-hat. Also I suspect that first solo needs to be sweetened a touch too or something? Maybe needs a touch more tape/tube/analog style bus processing or similar?. It's a really tough challenge to get that 'Jeff Lorber' really smooth yet present sound, especially in the midrange. I think Jeff mixes his stuff on an SSL so might be a direction to try there I guess with this. This is a really great musical track. I need to give it another try.

Cheers!

Hi,

Ok, gave it another go. Mix 1.0 added. Added some notes in first post.

Cheers!

Smooth, Mike. Very nice.
Using some reverb on the master buss was a good thought for this to put everything together. I only put reverb on the bass so I could get it to lay better against the exiting effects and to give a bit more depth with the volume I wanted.

Hi!

Thanks for giving it a listen. I might be able to get it a bit more smooth, we'll see...

Can't remember which mix it was, but I recall you mentioned that you detected some pumping, or similar. From a few other comments I think the limiter I was using was causing me some issues that I didn't spot. I used the same one on this mix, so you've given me an idea to swap it out for something else.

Cheers!

Not really a fair or controlled test, but 1.1 is a different limiter, and a little more sensible I think?

1.0 is -11.8. LUFS, loudness range 3.1, dBTP +0.5 (!)
1.1 is -14.6 LUFS, loudness range 3.1, dbTB -0.1

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Hey,

the 1.1 version sounds very nice, it was really interesting to listen to your mix