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MekaPhil - Alive (Yet Free) - LukasLawler - 21-07-2021
Hey all!
I decided to try and mix this song. Used Death and Darkness SDX on kick and snare (nothing wrong with original tracks, just wanted to try out Death and Darkness).
RE: MekaPhil - Alive (Yet Free) - aftercutrecords - 22-07-2021
WOWZERS those kick and toms. Very deep there.
1) I LOVE the filtering in the first verse
2) The kick and snare work well with this track.
3) I think the guitars sound really good!
4) Good vocal blend!
5) THANK you for giving the vocals a great amount of attention. They sound really good most of the time!
6) I can't get over how well you mixed the screams. I sound pretty great in those haha.
Here's some stuff that could really use work:
1) The kick's 70-80hz area is REALLY overbearing. Without so much of that, the mix gets a lot cleaner.
2) The kick could probably be brought down and the snare could come up.
3) I feel like the high is a WEE bit blanketed. You could probably turn up everything between 5k and 20khz in their own instruments (like maybe 5k on vocals or guitars, 7-10k on kick snare and toms respectively, and then a high shelf on the whole mix over that just for air) and it'll sound great. That area is pretty wide open.
4) The synths in the verses are a bit louder than the vocals. It works during the filtered part of verse 1 but aside from that, it sounds too loud. This is a very common mistake I've heard, though it doesn't sound as bad here as it usually does.
I hope those points of critique help you out! I really enjoyed your mix and especially the choices you made to differentiate it from the others. Your attention to details is definitely well noted! Thank you very much
