The rough mix came together reasonably quickly but then took hours and hours to bring it home. I started noticing that the snare sound during the chorus was really inconsistent. Virtually every beat had a different timbre or loudness and trying to hone in a consistent sound took a lot of effort.
Thanks for listening, feedback welcomed
Some nice things going on here.... very nice eq and treatment of the acoustic guitars.... feel the reverb is a bit much and sort of detached from the mix a little... it seems to sit behind the mix and not with it? particularly on the snare and vocals. less and a slower attack on the piano compression would help too i think. A slower attack and higher amount of compression and removal of some 125-250hz on the bass would help too.... slower attack on a fretless bass really helps the 'yawn' of the instrument. Some kind of stereo enhancement above 600hz or so on the bass would help to pull it into the mix a bit more too.....
(03-01-2016, 06:44 PM)Ms-Mixes Wrote: [ -> ]Some nice things going on here.... very nice eq and treatment of the acoustic guitars.... feel the reverb is a bit much and sort of detached from the mix a little... it seems to sit behind the mix and not with it? particularly on the snare and vocals. less and a slower attack on the piano compression would help too i think. A slower attack and higher amount of compression and removal of some 125-250hz on the bass would help too.... slower attack on a fretless bass really helps the 'yawn' of the instrument. Some kind of stereo enhancement above 600hz or so on the bass would help to pull it into the mix a bit more too.....
Thx for listening. Totally agree with your observations.
This is a pretty old mix so not surprised reverb isn't quite up to scratch. In fact, i think it was probably one of the first 1/2 dozen mixes i ever did so it's probably full of mistakes and errors
cheers, Simon