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...apart from that, great song. Perhaps I didn't do enough to honour the 80's vibe ...

Edit v3
I've tried to enhance the 80's vibe a bit. Just because I have time on my hand, I did a complete do-over with the mastering process, and also added some warmth and rolled of some harshness.

(06-04-2020, 07:46 PM)Krabbe Wrote: [ -> ]...apart from that, great song. Perhaps I didn't do enough to honour the 80's vibe ...

Hi!

Well, I enjoyed the mix.

Good overall instrument balance and nice highlighting of the solo, and intro scream, etc.

I feel the mix could do with just a touch more bottom end? Nothing drastic perhaps a gentle low shelf from about 1khz down? Probably about a db or 2 to warm it up just a touch? Could also maybe do with losing 1/2db around 5kish or something?

Just my thoughts. Hopefully you'll get some opinions from those more qualified with this stuff. Nice job overall though I feel.

Cheers!

Hi

Thank you for your input.

I actually thought about it lacking warmth and being a bit to bright side when I listed to it after a break from it. Not that your advise isn't usable, because it is, it is what the mix needs, I decided to go another way and instead applying some M/S EQ and mess around with the limiter settings. In the end, I ended up with v2 being a notch warmer and less harsh. We are talking ½ - 1 dB difference, so it's subtle changes, so they are barely audible

Hi,

I saw you'd posted a revised mix and wanted to wait a bit to check it out, as my ears have been getting quite some use these past days .

I prefer the first mix I think, especially the presence of the guitars and vocals. The vocals and guitar are a touch 'recessed' I think in the 2nd mix. The first mix is fine, I just felt it could do with a touch more weight in the lower end.

Cheers!

yeah, it's quite obviouos. Since I have nothing else to do, I'm gonna look at a v3

Thanks

(09-04-2020, 01:02 PM)mikej Wrote: [ -> ]Hi,

I saw you'd posted a revised mix and wanted to wait a bit to check it out, as my ears have been getting quite some use these past days .

I prefer the first mix I think, especially the presence of the guitars and vocals. The vocals and guitar are a touch 'recessed' I think in the 2nd mix. The first mix is fine, I just felt it could do with a touch more weight in the lower end.

Cheers!

compressed cymbals?

It's been a while since I mixed this, but I think where your problem lies is, you have the overheads too hot so the cymbals are ringing too long in the mix.

What I do is, get the drums they way I want them to sound first, for the whole song.
Then add the bass for the whole song
(that is what drives and holds the song together)
Then add guitars, keyboards, whatever for the whole song
(That makes the cake... Sonically... Then the icing on the cake is...)
Vocals
Then background vocals
Then solos

The trick for the icing is... to fit the vocals, background vocals and solos into the mix, and still be able to hear everything else, and still be able to pick and hear each part throughout the song.
Can you pick out the kick, the bass, ride cymbal, guitar, each background vocalist, whatever?
Or is is buried in the mix?

I spent a few weeks getting the icing on it... Eqs, compressors and limiters.
Getting the vocals right coming out of the first solo without automation was hard...
And the first solo was hard getting all the low runs to fit without ripping your head off when he went for the higher notes.
And if I remember correctly, I buried one part of the drums which had a weird hit.

Here was my stab at it...
https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/show...?tid=30767