had a great time mixin this one, found a cool plugin I didnt know I had, some modulation saturation delay thing, red and rockin.
I may have overlooked some details as its extremely hot in here by now, heatwave - time for a good break and a cold pepsi
Actually my computer fans make more noise than the music. Nearly
OBS: New mix post 15 !
Ahhh man, I love this! Great balance/levels, compression on the vocals is beautiful (this was really special for me), and spectral balance/separation is gorgeous. Mastering is very transparent, any limiting you're doing is completely inaudible, and the vocal harshness/sibilance, well... I dunno how you pulled it off, but it's great. I love the different EQs/depths on the counterpoint chorus vocals, too. Really, an awesome mix.
The only things I didn't like... there's quite a bit much wetness on the vocal in relation to the rest of the mix. It's not really muddying it up or dragging it or anything like that, it just feels a bit much to my taste. And I'm pretty sure the loops were separated the way they are for stereo fiddling like you used, but it was a bit uncomfortable for me when the heavier snare-sh drums come in. I think it'd be kinda disorienting in headphones but I didn't check. This could very well be a personal taste thing, too. This is excellent work, I'm really impressed.
Thank you thank you !
Actually it was posted way before i thought it was finished as a work in progress, but then again sometimes we dont know where to stop and this awful heatwave may have done one good thing here.
I got pulled away with the quarternote delay, as I found a plugin I really like I didnt know I had ...
So I forgot about other delays and verbs, just left it as it were.
For the BV eq I used a technique I invented today :-)
When doubled one vocal part goes through eq and comp, other goes trough SSL LMC-1 and a locut, both goes to bus with a yamaha compressor and eq.
The lowest bv also had a send to a saturation bus. I didnt care about tuning it as most of it sounded cool
For the mastering its a compressor preset I took from a Waves renaissance comp that wont open on my daw anymore, dont you just love it when you buy something and they tell you you cant get a new pass code for it ... Anyway I use the same setting on my mastering comp, pretty slow attck and lon release, and only workin 1 max 2dB. On limiter I pulld about 2dB and that it. had a little M/S thing goin too, sides locut 120 with 12dB slope, 39Hz locut on master eq. And some loq hiband boosting too.
Glad you like it - made my day - thx man !
How'd you get the vocal sibilance under control so well? I spent as much time trying to fix that as anything else. Except that bass maybe
Fishfillet spitfish plugin on leadvocal.
hi and locut on 2nd leadvocal and through SSL LMC-1
Fishfillet deesser also on bv bus. Thats it :-)
Great sounding mix,nice solid and smooth.
Yep you and vox fx ,they just get the better of you lol
I think that's the one thing that spoils a lot of your mixes.
Thx and thx again for the reminder "less is more" also goes for vocal effects
There may be a revision 2 on this one based on you guys advice.
Thank you !
I just figure the mix as a whole should be wetter than the vocal in most circumstances, in terms of room effects, although the very wet vocals with the telephone eq are amazingly effective. It's a great sound in pop music. In this case in particular, the delay is so saturated on the lead vocal that it sorta blurs the line between a delay and a verb with a very long tail. The same effect turned down to just above inaudibility... Well I think the tonal effect would be great because it's already quite enhanced but overdone. And big verbs pushed waaaay back always make a vocal sound even more up front than they do dry.
I like this mix Niels ,great balance between instruments as usual , I like the vocal effects ,maybe a touch softer as Alan and Pauli already said
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Sounds great also to me. Main thing is that I forget to analyze what you've done and start to listen for the song. And that's the mixers main job. So my comments are quite sparse.
I like how the drums move in stereo field.
With this mix you maybe could try to torture yourself a bit and try to give slightly more air to vocals. For example sharp boost somewhere between 12-16 k.
Haven't tried this, but you gave me an inspiration to try it soon. If I do it, I'll come with new comments with new perspective.