Lead Inc: 'The Dice'

[thedon]

Hey Don - had a listen to the latest mix on my studio system... still sounding great.

I think you could still go further tightening up the low end. I did a quick experiment: I downloaded your mix and ran it through FabFilter's Pro MB Multiband Comp. After sweeping around the lows, I settled on the area from 50-200hz, compressing by a maximum of around 2.5dB, with a medium/fast attack & release. That certainly brought the lows under control, and took some of the "boomyness" out of the low end. The mix also started to fall more in line with commercial references of similar styles.

However, with the lows somewhat subdued, the high mids and highs started to really dominate and became quite strident, so with a high band starting at around 2.7k and going right up to 20k, I compressed very gently for about 0.5dB of GR with a slow attack and medium/fast release. I also pulled about 0.6dB of overall gain out of that area.

I think it is an improvement, but I'm certain that you would get a better result if you attacked at the track level of the mix.

I've attached an sample of the result below as an mp3 and also attached a screenshot of the ProMB settings.

Wow great improvement in the overall sound,thanks so much for taking the time to have a play around.
Thats a great help for the next version.

Cheers