Piece of Me EB Mix

[molonlabe23]

Here is my version. I automated the panning a bit to keep the guitars a little tighter in the verses and exploded some of them wide during the chorus's and instrumental breaks. With a stereo imager they still sound big without the mix falling a part in mono. I also used a DeEsser on the Overheads and Room mic's to calm the crashes down a bit. I multed the double kick parts so I could have independent control of the release settings on my compressor to time it to the quick hits. I did a bunch of fader rides on the vocals and bass and a little with the guitars. I rode the master fader for some slight dynamic changes between the verses, instrument breaks and Chorus's with a bump on the ending to push it a little harder. My bass and kick are slightly darker than the reference mix, either from a lack of skill or different tools used to get the job done.

This was mixed in Studio One pro with the console shaper active. I used mostly stock plugins with a few from Waves API collection for color. Along with FXpansion"s Free SSl style buss compressor just kissing the needle. I also used HoRNet"s gain stage plugin which is a must have plugin for $5.00. It will auto adjust the gain on each track to -18DB.
I was very conservative with the compression in the mix. The majority of the compression you hear was from the mastering. I'm not really set up for mastering so if this mix falls apart it would be in my mastering skills.

Any Feedback is welcome.

Cheers,