29-05-2024, 02:28 AM
Hey mate! Just wanted to share some opinions on V4 real quick:
1) The snare is the weakest part of the track and there's a reason for that. It's very white-noisy instead of having a real smack to it. It sounds like a thip, and it should sound more like a thick smack. I would definitely beef it up and carve out a bit of some of the gross sounding bottom snare sound. More top snare with a high shelf boosting the crack at like 6khz and up, less bottom snare mic because that bottom snare just sounds very rattly in your mix.
2) The vocals could be more compressed and maybe saturated more, with some delay on them. Ducking that delay would make a huge difference, too, so that the vocals have maximal intelligibility and then the delay pops out when the vocals aren't present. If you'd like help on that, I'm happy to explain how it works. Overall, they just need some depth.
Other than that, the balances are actually pretty good. You just need some simplicity here. The snare from the first mix iteration sounded much fatter, but still sounded somewhat plasticky. Address the space between 3khz and 5khz in the snare and see why it sounds so noisy and you'll probably get closer to your original vision while also being much cleaner!
1) The snare is the weakest part of the track and there's a reason for that. It's very white-noisy instead of having a real smack to it. It sounds like a thip, and it should sound more like a thick smack. I would definitely beef it up and carve out a bit of some of the gross sounding bottom snare sound. More top snare with a high shelf boosting the crack at like 6khz and up, less bottom snare mic because that bottom snare just sounds very rattly in your mix.
2) The vocals could be more compressed and maybe saturated more, with some delay on them. Ducking that delay would make a huge difference, too, so that the vocals have maximal intelligibility and then the delay pops out when the vocals aren't present. If you'd like help on that, I'm happy to explain how it works. Overall, they just need some depth.
Other than that, the balances are actually pretty good. You just need some simplicity here. The snare from the first mix iteration sounded much fatter, but still sounded somewhat plasticky. Address the space between 3khz and 5khz in the snare and see why it sounds so noisy and you'll probably get closer to your original vision while also being much cleaner!