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Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - plasticdish - 15-02-2019 Hello. Here is my first mix for this song. I guess maybe it's a lot of compression in my mix. Please, feel free to give it a listen and critique. Would love to hear what you think about my mix. I really want to become better in mixing. Thank you. RE: Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - Herb Felho - 15-02-2019 Hi, a warm and fat sounding mix, just the way I like it! :-) Not bad at all, but if you want some suggestions on what could be improved, here´s my opinion: Like you guessed there seem to be some problems with the compression settings in deed. Hard to say if it´s bus compression or on individual channels. You can hear the initial crash cymbal is extremely influenced by compression, probably on the drum bus, it gets ducked initially then comes back up slowly. You always hear it on the cymbals first when there is too much compression going on on the drum bus. They start sounding overprocessed and unnatural pretty quickly. Instead I would rather compress the drums individually or alternatively set up two drum busses, one "transient bus" for shells (like snare, kick and toms), and one for cymbals/overheads and leave the latter one alone. Also, if applying compression, you could probably do better with setting the attack and release times. Because if not done correctly you will either have too much attack/punch or too little from wrong attack times, or pumping from wrong release times. I would assume, the release time on the drum bus is set too long, and the attack times on some other compressors mostly pretty short/fast since the mix generally could sound a bit punchier, what you will get if you set attack times slower and let more of the transients through. It takes a while to "hear" compression, respectively what´s wrong with it, but when you just started mixing it´s probably enough to just "see" compression for now. Meaning, whatever compressor you try to dial in: Always watch the gain reduction meter, you don´t want it to move to much or even get slammed completely. Hope that helps! RE: Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - plasticdish - 15-02-2019 (15-02-2019, 07:13 PM)Herb Felho Wrote: Hi, Hello, Herb Felho. And thank you so much for such a detailed review. It's really helpful for me. So I'll pay attention to compression settings. Especially, attack and release times. I felt, that there're some problems with compression settings, but couldn't realize, what exactly wrong. So I should train to listen to compression. I appreciate your time. Thank you! RE: Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - plasticdish - 07-03-2019 Here is a few words about my mix. Please, sorry for my English) The main idea behind this mix was to translate the vocal part in the best way. About a technical part: Now, after the contest, I feel, that the my mix slightly overcompressed. If I could do it again, I would give some more dynamic to this mix. I’ve used all the recorded tracks. And also I’ve added sampled kick to have more low end. I’ve panned guitars to left and right, to have more space in the center for vocal. I’ve used parallel processing (added some saturation on mids) for bass guitar to make it more audible in the mix. And I’ve used a lot of automation for the different parts of song. It’s about delay, reverb and balance. Also I’ve used a lot of compression on groups. E.g. for drums, guitars, percussions, back vocals. It’s nothing really interesting about my master section. But I can say, that I’ve used SLL EQ on my master. I now, it’s not correct and you have to solve problems, doing changes on individual tracks, but I like how it sounds in this song. I think it gives interesting colour to the mix. Also there were tape emulation, compressor and limiter. It’s hard to describe all the details about mix. So you can download a project (Logic Pro X). Thank you! RE: Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - Mike Senior - 12-03-2019 Hi plasticdish -- nice warm lead-vocal sound and plenty of nifty effects touches here! Strong balance, sensible overall tonality (maybe a little less 130Hz?), and decent stereo width too, so this is clearly a strong contender from the start. Some specific thoughts:
Thanks for posting -- and congratulations on finding such favour with Hannes himself! ![]() RE: Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better (PlasticDish Mix) - plasticdish - 12-03-2019 Mike, thank you so much for such a detailed feedback. Thanks again for this contest and great opportunity to improve our knowledge. It's really priceless. And of course, many thanks to Hannes Keseberg and Mixerman. |