Temporary Happiness

[Dangerous]

Hi Dave,

A few comments about V2.
Your mix sounds good, you achieved a pleasant balance here. I like the powerful guitar sound.
The only thing I'm not too found of is the lows/low-mids which are a bit loud and muffled to my ears :
- The low freqs are really boomy on my subwoofer. I tried cutting 2-3 dB at 50 and 100Hz with a narrow Q and it seems to help a bit.
- I see that you've mono-ed the low frequencies under ~100Hz (no bass nor kick in the side channel) and that's a smart choice. But personally I would have set the cut-off freq even higher, between 175-200Hz, which helps reduce some "muffle" on the sides and adds definition and clarity to the mix, particularly to the guitars.

Hope that helps !
Erick

Thanks Erick,

Very helpful indeed.

I'm not surprised by the sub 100hz issues. My monitoring is poor in this region and I know that I boosted the bass guitar in this sub area also (trying to add some fullness). I reckon this might what you are hearing.

Also an interesting point with the side channel. I will have a play here and see how far I can take it. I know from the past that I have to be careful not to thin out the panned guitars too much though. This is usually my set point.

Thanks for the pointers.

Dave