Fytakyte - Too Much

[mikej]

Hi!

Thanks for checking out the mix and for the detailed comments.

I don't like the drums, the snare just isn't there. Ironically although it's buried in the mix the 300hz resonance is super audible and annoying to my ear.

I don't think the snare needs to be that upfront in this track.  Saying that  I might have a look at rebalancing things a bit.  I can probably fix the resonance issue though....

Hi-hat's sticking out too much.

Can't say I noticed any issues with them to be honest, but I'll give it another listen with that in mind.

I'm not sure what it is with the vocals, it sounds a bit like a compressor with supper fast attack/release times distorting the signal. You can hear that in the first line where instead of "she" it's "sh-sh-sh-she" which already makes the listener go like 'okay what's going on here' in the first seconds. It also happens later in the song a few times.

I wasn't sure what it was either, but yeah you are right! 

I like a fast comp on the vocal but I don't think that's doing it...  Actual issue I suspect is the de-esser threshold.  In theory it should be worse in the second mix than the first.  The esses were bothering me on some IEMs I have that are a bit hot in that area, so I hit it a bit too hard with the de-esser before deciding I would be better off going through and ducking them manually.  Seems I forgot to back off the de-esser afterwards. We shall see.

The main vocal is boxy in ~300-400 hz range. In the context of a whole mix it's actually not that bad, but ie. 01:55 at "boy, i love you too much" it becomes super apparent. 

I feel a little more on the lower end of a vocal can give it more up front feel, rather than necessarily being 'boxy' as such.  Can't say it bothers me, but saying that I'll check out that section and maybe try it high-passed a little more to see if I like it.

The whole mix feels a bit overcompressed, but to my surprise not as much as I'd expect from something that peaks at -3.4LUFS. This is insane. I can't imagine reaching this sort of loudness without killing the dynamics. Especially in a song like this.

I opted to push into the compression quite a bit on the chorus sections for this one, but even so the compressor isn't doing that much I don't think.  I think the library mix peaks around -4 LUFS or so, so I don't think it's that insane really.  It's only momentarily, it's not as if it's pinned at -3.4 LUFS for the whole thing.  I can always back off of course.  Maybe not so easy to go the other way if the mix can't take it.  Thing is if people have been living with a 'louder' mix already... 

The instrument tracks seem to be fine, but as I have already mentioned in another post they already sound good on their own so(..) I can't give you credit for that haha

I think it's a mix that needs more work

So it would seem.  Hopefully I'll have a bit of time later to delve into it a bit.  Not sure I can promise a decent snare though, but I'll give it a go . (I have been known to nail it in the past on the odd occasion....).



Cheers!