Piece Of Me - Really liked it !

[marcelsemelka]

Hi guys,
this is my third mix I posted on this board.
First mix was "Broken Man" by "Speaking Softly", second was "Devil's Words" by "Actions".
Feel free to check that out, too

I really like that song. Not my genre I would listen to the whole day, but those E-Guitars have some energy, man...
Did some basic things, low cut here and there, especially the vocals, that already have some effects on them, had some nasty low end stuff on them.

Guitars have been compressed and pushed to dominate the mix. I think, that sounds pretty good for this genre of music.

Accoustic Drums have been recorded pretty good, only the snare I mixed some of the sample based track into it.

All in all, the mix is pretty loud with only little dynamics (and that while I am a huge fan of dynamics), but for that genre of music I really like the outcome.

What I did in a list:
- Some basic EQs on the stems to clean up (Low/Hi Cuts etc.)
- Basic volume and panorama mixing (some automation on the stems (like intro spreading from mid to stereo, some guitar automation)
- Compressed E-Guitars and Bass
- Vocals already had effects (room) on them, only low cutted them for a clean up and stereo widned one of the stems

All done in Cubase in approx 3-4 hrs

I really would like to get some comments from you guys and/or (constructive) criticism.

Regards,
Marcel