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My first non-electronic mix - itsjustapeak - 28-09-2013 Hi there, first of all: Thanks to Mike Senior for the great book and the overwhelming collection of multitracks. And of course thanks to the performing musicians for this fine piece of music. ![]() I've been been making and mixing music with my computer for a very long time now (with small to none success ![]() So this is my first attempt to mix "handmade" music. I don't currently own a proper monitoring system, so i used my cheap Creative 2.1 speakers and my Beyerdynamic DT770 phones as reference. Any comments and of course tips are greatly appreciated (though i'm a little bit nervous about it... ![]() Anyway. Thanks in adavance for your time! ![]() RE: My first non-electronic mix - bmullen - 28-09-2013 Very nice for your first go at this type of mixing. Very nice use of the stereo field and good overall balance in my opinion. I would suggest trying to achieve more clarity and punch with the snare and also a bit more clarity with the vocals .. might be the reverb choice, not sure. You could probably bring the backup vocals up a tad, too. RE: My first non-electronic mix - itsjustapeak - 28-09-2013 Hey bmullen, thx for your review. I didn't want to write it in my OP, because i didn't want to draw the attention to it, but these were also my thoughts regarding the snare and the vocal. ![]() It would make the track sound a little bit more "live" as well. Which i tried to achieve because i think that's the overall feel of the song to me. I could imagine a band having a big time while playing the song. Espacially the pianist and the singer. ![]() But i wasn't able to fix that to my satisfaction the ways i tried it. I didn't think about choosing another reverb. Thx for that tipp! I am definetly going to try that. I used very little reverb overall. I am not confident enough with the "correct" use up to now, since it makes my mixes sound blurry and too roomy and up to now i wasn't really able to use reverb to place different parts "in the room" via different predelays. Something to work on. ![]() Thanx again for taking the time. ![]() |