The Dangerous Inner Circle

[Dangerous]

Sounds good Dave, a polished almost 80's sounding mix with the snare verb.

I noticed that the vocals are very compressed sounding and really dry. It seems like they're fighting to dominate the mix. I would add some more reverb and a short mono delay just to help put the vocals more into the mix.

Yeah, definitely hitting the compressor too hard. I have got some delay and verb going, just not enough. Will take your advice with the next bounce.

The drums sound great, punchy and full sounding. The room is a cool effect, but the snare seems to lack some density and body to it. Adding some low end saturation would help with that without using too much eq overall.

Adding saturation Great idea, never thought of doing that. I reckon this will help nail down the snare and give it that extra weight for sure.

While the mix does sound good, it seem somewhat sterile and lacks a certain level of dirt and crunch. I found using a driving a console emulation plugin just on the edge of break up and hit it with some compression from an ask buss comp emulation and some tape saturation gave it some punch and grit without compromising clarity.

I mainly mix with reaper stock plugs so I don't have any console emulation plugins on hand. I have however got a subtle tape sat running on the master. I will have a go at adding a parallel processing chain to the mix to try and throw a bit of dirt around. As long as I can keep it sounding natural and real.

Overall your mix sounds good, it needs some refining.

Cheers,
Dcp

Thanks for checking out the mix and for the helpful suggestions

Dave