Hiya.
Firstly, welcome to to the forums! There's a lot of people just joining up recently (including myself!) so it is getting very busy here - which is a good thing. Such a wealth of knowledge and experience from all over the world meeting up in the one spot!
Couple of things to look at with your mix.
This one's easy - At the start there's the left over reverb tail of a vocal that triggered the effect just as you started printing the track. Have a look around for any stray audio lurking around the start of the song and clean it up.
Now, into the mix itself!
I'm finding it hard to clearly hear everything as there's a lot of 'boom' in this version, and from what I can gather it's because of the choice of reverb and the elements that are being sent to it. The kick drum, in particular, doesn't need to be sent to the reverb channel much to give it the impression of being in the same space as the rest of the kit, so back off the kick's send to the effects channel a fair way.
You can also put an equaliser across the effects channel and use a low frequency shelf to drop the level of everything below about 200Hz by 8-12dB which will also clean it up a lot.
You'll be able to hear the bass much better once all that low frequency reverb isn't masking it anymore as well.
Give that a try and see how it sounds - the song should then be much easier to listen to and you'll have a better time of hearing the rest of the elements to know whether they fit well into the mix.
Listening *through* the bottom end murk, the rest of the instruments and vocals seem to be well placed, but it will be much easier to confirm this once the boom has been removed.
Hope to hear another version from you soon!
Kind regards,
Dags
Firstly, welcome to to the forums! There's a lot of people just joining up recently (including myself!) so it is getting very busy here - which is a good thing. Such a wealth of knowledge and experience from all over the world meeting up in the one spot!
Couple of things to look at with your mix.
This one's easy - At the start there's the left over reverb tail of a vocal that triggered the effect just as you started printing the track. Have a look around for any stray audio lurking around the start of the song and clean it up.
Now, into the mix itself!
I'm finding it hard to clearly hear everything as there's a lot of 'boom' in this version, and from what I can gather it's because of the choice of reverb and the elements that are being sent to it. The kick drum, in particular, doesn't need to be sent to the reverb channel much to give it the impression of being in the same space as the rest of the kit, so back off the kick's send to the effects channel a fair way.
You can also put an equaliser across the effects channel and use a low frequency shelf to drop the level of everything below about 200Hz by 8-12dB which will also clean it up a lot.
You'll be able to hear the bass much better once all that low frequency reverb isn't masking it anymore as well.
Give that a try and see how it sounds - the song should then be much easier to listen to and you'll have a better time of hearing the rest of the elements to know whether they fit well into the mix.
Listening *through* the bottom end murk, the rest of the instruments and vocals seem to be well placed, but it will be much easier to confirm this once the boom has been removed.
Hope to hear another version from you soon!
Kind regards,
Dags
So many songs, so little time!