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Access Denied Mix - It's been a while since I've been here - vicenzajay - 29-06-2020
Here's my take. Been quite a while since I've posted here as a lot has happened family-wise in the last 5 months or so.
Notes - busy song (as already noted) with lots going on in the same frequency regions. I chose to leave it fairy busy as an arrangement yet work hard on space placement/pan/stereo width track settings - especially with all the synth tracks. All this had to take (for me) second place to the lead vocal). I really had to concentrate on pinning the bass down. Hard. Especially with the syncopated kick. There are a few places the timing wanders just slightly between the bass and kick, but I left all that alone here.
For space, I chose a large'ish room for a performance vibe. There is also an additional plate for the lead vocal and some percussion plate for the snare and drum room ambient stem.
Given the provided "full" track, I did push this a bit - so levels are about -1.5db once printed. Hope it's worth a listen, and thanks to the artists, etc. for making the song available to mix.