18-04-2014, 09:36 PM
Unfortunately, cakewalk products are all very poorly programmed and buddy, and Sonar 7 Home Studio is horrendous in that respect. I tried to figure sidechain compression out for 3 months, only to find that S7HS has no support for that, and that's become an extremely important part of my mixing since making the switch.
You can always count of me for a detailed listen, friend. This mix is deceptively tricky, and since we don't have the band to work with and guide us as to their intentions, Personal Taste reigns supreme over many elements of mix processing, I think. So possibly it's not distance from the mix that you need, you may just not agree with my sonic preferences, and you may have referenced something completely different (based on your taste) than what I did, which is to be expected considering that the band isn't here and therefore hasn't supplied us with references.
One thing I'd like to ask you about: You mentioned on my mix that the bass guitar wasn't coming through enough for you and was too heavy in the 200 to 300 department. When I compare our mixes side by side and volume match (I tend to keep my peaks lower) the bass on my mix sounds a lot louder, and I also savagely cut in that range on both the bass and guitars, along with highpassing the side channel at 250 kH. I think something is going on with the room mic, maybe I should highpass that up to 200? 250? it's at 100 at the moment.
You can always count of me for a detailed listen, friend. This mix is deceptively tricky, and since we don't have the band to work with and guide us as to their intentions, Personal Taste reigns supreme over many elements of mix processing, I think. So possibly it's not distance from the mix that you need, you may just not agree with my sonic preferences, and you may have referenced something completely different (based on your taste) than what I did, which is to be expected considering that the band isn't here and therefore hasn't supplied us with references.
One thing I'd like to ask you about: You mentioned on my mix that the bass guitar wasn't coming through enough for you and was too heavy in the 200 to 300 department. When I compare our mixes side by side and volume match (I tend to keep my peaks lower) the bass on my mix sounds a lot louder, and I also savagely cut in that range on both the bass and guitars, along with highpassing the side channel at 250 kH. I think something is going on with the room mic, maybe I should highpass that up to 200? 250? it's at 100 at the moment.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!