We Feel Alright

[pauli]

I'm sorry, but I don't keep this Project anymore, so I can't tell you exactly what I did because my memory is not that good. But one of the things I can tell you is that I compare all the time the instruments' spectrum that play in the same range, so there is no conflict. So maybe that's why you hear everything so clear.

Another thing I do for making things wider is a stereo widener. I don't use it on the whole mix, but mainly on synths and pads. Maybe this will give you a hint about how to achieve a similar sound.

And again, I still like your snare better than mine

Oh, cool. I had the same idea about stereo widening for the pad and the sweeps, but I went for an autopan instead (I like those ). The effect is a lot more dramatic on the sweeps, but there's a teeny bit of it on the pad. My idea was to use the pad more as a textural layer underneath the mix, letting it poke out here and there with the autopanning, but mostly using it to fill out the harmonic density a bit. Sounds a little TOO dense for me though!

I squeeze the boogers out of the bottom half of the bass and the kick drum to even them out a bit, so it's possible that I simply took it too far... there's also a mastering style compressor right before the limiter because I was trying to get the 2 to 4 kH to take a chill pill, and there's some bass boost there that I'm regretting at the moment.