Sea Of Leaves - 1st pass

[FytaKyte]

Hey man,
Thanks for all your help.
I'm mixing myself in circles here haha.

I was trying to focus on your consistent note on the low-end.
I think I may have buggered some stuff up in the progress.
That area of the full, tight, low-end w/o mud has been an issue for me in the past. Perhaps you have a technique or approach I should be looking at?

Anyway, I addressed your notes.
The vocal reverb was from the CLA Vocals plugin (no pre delay or eq settings). So I did it a little different, bussing the reverb out and using a sample-delay ahead of it.

The cymbals are... better, I think.
It's really tough. It's not he overheads - its that there's so much bleed of the crash into the outer-kick mic. I don't know how you approached this, but this is quite troublesome for me.

I took a listen to your mix, really awesome dude. Punchy, full, and dynamic. the changes in energy as you go from verse to pre chorus to chorus really makes the chorus seem "earned." Really well done. And the way the bass sits with the kick is rockin! Not to toot, but it seems like a very CLA approach to the song. very cool.

Thanks again.

Glad you liked my mix - thank you for the kind compliment!...

With your new one, I think you've taken a couple of steps forward and maybe one back... but hey, that's progress!

The cymbals sound more controlled, and the bass is definitely fuller. If you can get the kick & bass to compliment one another better via eq (carve out a spot in lows of the bass around 80-100 for the kick to sit in) you might find that the low end will gel together better.

I would venture to say that, although there is better clarity & fullness in your latest mix, the mix previous to this one "glued" together better... Have you done something to the snare in this one? It seems to poke out a bit too much.

The vocals are clearer now, but I think you could just turn the reverb down some to get the vocals to feel more part of the music.

Pauli had some good suggestions on how to deal with the bleed from the outside kick mic....Here's my method - I put a gate on the outside kick, but I triggered the gate from the inside kick mic track via the outside kick's gate's sidechain. That, in combination with low passing it really did the trick.

Hope that helps!