Allen Stone - Naturally MIXEDbyRICKY

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Just uploaded a new version of this beautiful song. I think it sounds nice, fat, and warm. Let me know what you think.

beautiful mix! I have a few Acoustica plugins that I haven't used in a while because my computer hates them lol

Very nice transients and sounds especially on the snare. The bass sounds really big as well. If there was anything I would have added, maybe some heavy saturation on the Keys just barely audible, and only in the side Info. Beaware a big saturation boost will need a 3kish cut on those keys. I think the Keys are a very important factor in this song, and your transients sound nice to me, just a little more full sounding grit in the body would be interesting

I've got the ultramarine(Fairchild and Pultec stuff) and Pink(API stuff)

The pink Preamps are probably what I use the most. They do something that makes a sound slightly fuller, little louder and tames the lows while somewhat retaining transients like nothing else will. I see why they get used on guitar mostly. The acoustica plugin comes with 8 different preamps to choose from and I pretty much only use any of them for vocals if I remember right.

The pink Compressor is amazing. My computer usually hates even 1 instance of it, but from my experience it has great transients and somewhat saturates those transients as well. I've used it on drums many times and the shmod knob was magic whatever it did once the threshold settings were just right. 

The Fairchild(Ultramarine) emulation I pretty much mostly used on Guitars. It has a very soft low mid saturation that boosts and smooths the signal. I plan on using it more for some horn tones and things of that nature next time I get to it  

I actually use Nebula more than anything. I have some very nice reverbs that sound unlike anything I've came across. However, I can only use 1 of these plugins with nothing else going, so basically if I'm halfway through a mix, there is NO way I could possible run this plugin which is usually when I need it. So I render it down but also introduces Aliasing(which I've mixed long enough it doesn't bother me) and I shape it with EQ as needed. 10/10 that's the most real sounding reverb I've heard from any source so far. Other than that I tend to reach towards my slate reverbs if I want a nice digital tone(Which I've been doing more recently)

Let me know what you got and how you used it. I'm curious to know