Jamie Kent: 'All-American Mutt' kapu mix

[dcp10200]

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Well, I had a phase when I thought I liked more dynamic sound, but that never really 'did it for me', and to be honest for me it was more of an illusion conjured by blindly trusting authoritarian figures. For me the breathe is distorting parallel compression which brings up all the mess and noise. I leave versions when I consider I've made bigger changes, but my updates are generally just 'dB here and Hz there' type of tweaking. For the record on the latest Colton Benjamin thread I put two version. ^_^

I'm going to agree with Adam here, listening to your mix for the intro up to the first verse it sounds punchy, albeit it has an AM Radio distortion and muddiness to it, after the first chorus however is where the mix loses it's impact. I like a bit of push to my mixes as well, this kind of song however needs to "simmer" more during the verses and be more open sounding rather than constantly sounding pushed.

I found that a -3 dB scoop at 250, -2.5 dB scoop at 400 , and a Pul Tec style cut at 300 was enough to open up those verse sections and keep it clear through out the track. Parallel compression is a possibility for the drums here but I wouldn't recommend it because of the more sparce nature of these multis, it's super easy to overdo and a lot of times just adds mud to tracks like this (it's an overrated technique because every "Mixing tricks"/"Producer" channel and forum on the internet seems to think its the best thing ever and needs to be done on every mix).

I can't really say much more, overall I like the mix, that acoustic sounds great, it just needs less obvious compression, something just to keep the peaks down rather than add aggression and power.

Cheers and hope this helps,
Doug