24-04-2012, 09:04 PM
Quote:one down alot moor to go
You're not kidding! You've been busy, I see. Still, on the basis of this mix I have to say that your practice appears to be paying dividends, because this is an extremely confident balancing job, and there are also lots of nice sounds in here. I definitely prefer this to the preview mix on most counts. You've delivered a lovely vocal sound, and with a great sense of blend to the mix in a general sense, as well as a nice 'opening out' of the atmosphere for the hook -- the latter very well judged, and presumably involving some kind of effects-level automation? The electric guitar solo fits very nicely into the track too, which isn't as easy as you've made it sound.
As far as any criticism goes, I'd say my main quibble would be that the piano really takes a hit from phase-cancellation -- it all but disappears from the choruses in mono, for instance. Those acoustic guitar fills (the first one heard around 0:05) sound rather too thin for me as well, which feels like a shame given the meatiness I can hear in the raw recordings here. In fact, I think that the acoustic guitars could have generally filled out the track's overall sound more, giving it a touch more body. As it is, they sound a bit over-filtered somehow, and the rhythmic drive of the production as a whole feels a bit weaker than I'd like as a result.
Still, those a both pretty small issues in the grand scheme of things. Nice stuff!