05-09-2016, 08:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2016, 08:26 PM by JadeWilliamson.)
(05-09-2016, 11:21 AM)Detra Wrote: I'm used to mixing rap music
8k is the ticket! Obviously use your ears to find what you would deem the sweet spot per performance. Sometimes it's 6k, sometimes it's 10k. It depends on the mic, the singer, the room, and a million other things that add up very quickly.
Make sure you carve out some space in the other tracks, especially the hi hats if they're on their own track. I've only worked on two rap projects ever and neither time was I lucky enough to get stems. It's always just a bounce of the instrumental that some dude made and there's no way to get a multitrack mix down. If you carve out space over a whole instrumental like that, you might just feel there's a brightness missing that vocals alone won't make up for.
Look at me rambling.
Also if you're gonna boost those frequencies on the guitars, you should probably dip them out a bit in the other tracks as necessary. You can add a tight Q for each frequency on each different track and see if it gets muddy or whistly when you turn it up. If it does you'll know to carve space there so that the guitars can shine. This is clearly a guitar and singer song, with other things as accompaniment.
Anyway, listening to your mix again I'm still a fan. If you go back and mix it again I'd love to hear it with that brighter vocal!