(07-06-2023, 05:18 AM)Quathamer Wrote: Yo,

Interesting comment about the kit sounding as if its snapped to the grid, because I found that it wasn't even close. I spent a good while just snapping stuff to the grid, especially the drums. But I also needed to snap all the other rhythm instruments to the grid as well, like the bass, acoustics and rhythm guitars. Made a massive difference.

Good mix, by the way. It's a nice earthy mix, and I like where you put the drums. Tasteful effects as well. I'm personally a big fan of hard panning instruments one side and effects on the other (especially guitars).

Has your mix been mastered?


Hey quathamer thanks for the feedback back!
you know I thought I may be eating my words with that comment. It came to mind when first listening to mike seniors mix. Never investigated it though  
I hear you on the effects, as of late I’ve been messing with the CLA four delays and verbs thing. 
that along with mixing at 96k pretty much smashes the cpu for adding additional panned effects. 
I’m going to see if panning the sends opposite the guits helps with that. 

it’s not mastered professionally, just stuff on the master buss.  
The chain is an EQ doing a few small cuts into a compressor then a pultec EQ with a small, low and high boost, going into another EQ, then a clipper and finally tapping a limiter. Also, running a parallel compressor on the master that’s slightly mixed in. 

Cheers! 

(08-06-2023, 01:25 AM)Quathamer Wrote: Cool. I do some similar work on my 2 buss, but I do subtle work and a little more of it.

For my 2 buss, I first put on a comp with slow attack fast release (1.5db reduction at the most), then it's mostly EQ work. I do some critical work on an FFQ3 EQ (no more than 1db changes), then multi-band trickery to clean up my bass frequencies (1db at the most). Then I go into an elysia museq to shape the low-mids, then into a klanghelm MJUCjr (free comp) to warm up the signal a bit (no gain reduction - just a pass through). Then I go into an SPL passive EQ to do a final boost of the low lows and the high highs. Then a DeEsser to catch the high-transients in the sum-channel (1.5bd). Then into an L2 to nip the transients (1.5db at the most). By the time I get to the L2, I find that I can easily get the level to -8 LUFS, without the need for a clipper.

I used to use a clipper before the limiter, and still do for some circumstances (like I have drum-focussed mix), but I don't like clipping if I can avoid it, because it can sometimes turn my kicks and bass into farts.

So, this sounds like a lot, but it's all so subtle that only when everything is put together do you get a really nice mastered sound that doesn't take away from the tone or vibe of the mix. It also doesn't do so much that it tries to "fix the mix"

(09-06-2023, 07:19 PM)Mixinthecloud Wrote: With songs this well produced it is easy to offer unlimited numbers of valid interpretations. This is an excellent example. A very well stated and organic mix.

I will third the MJUCjr plugin (the free one). It has been part of my bass guitar chain for quite some time, although not in this mix. It is a great tool along with their paid versions.

(09-06-2023, 11:43 PM)Roy Wrote: The mix works for me.

(19-06-2023, 09:46 AM)Jambon-beurre Wrote: Insanely crushed and messy.