Blues Bastards - Sugar - a lower calorie mix by boomaga

[boomaga]

Just curious, how many languages do you speak? I've found this to be a very international forum and that's what makes it great. And everyone tries their best to communicate in a common language. As an American, I'm glad it's English even though I speak it as poor as anyone. Luckily my Bronx accent doesn't come through. That said, I can't express anything in the native language of a lot of of the most prolific posters. I can't speak Japanese or Russian. And I'm sure I'd butcher Australian as Dangerous Dave would acknowledge (yes I know it's english, I wish 'barrack' would gain ground in the US. I'd root for it! (why all the laughter?))

As for the mix, it's a bit dry and brittle. I never felt the vocal needed tuning but on causal listening I don't hear any artifacts from doing so but also no improvement. I miss the bridge vocals. The snare is a bit up front and on top of everything. The bass guitar is a little anemic. It feels generally empty and I think some of the synths and strings would fill in the space better. Overall it just feels very...light. It's not horrible but the mix doesn't barrack (see above) the song very much.

   ... Okay, so, again, my having a bit of fun once again has been taken as with dead seriousness by you.  So: step one, removing the funneh misheard lyrics.  
     You know there IS a serious point being made about enunciation, about lyric writing and singing being a storytelling medium, and that unintelligible lyrics can hamper a song's success.   I couldn't begin to sing anything in Suomi, but then again, I'm NOT TRYING to sing a rock ballad in Suomi.   If  the Blues Bastards are singing for their home market, fine, if they're singing a Spanglish style mix of Suomi and English, fine.   It seems to me he was trying to sing completely in English for each line, though, and there are sung lyrics that I sincerely didn't know what the intended words were even having isolated the vocal track and listened many times.   I'm not DOGGING him for not speaking perfect English, my God.  With their educational system any average Finn is automatically going to be smarter than me, I can guarantee that.  It's got nothing to do with what languages he or I or you speak.  Lyrics are part of producing.   This is a ballad type song that leans heavily on the vocal part, highlights it.   Misheard lyrics are a concern for a producer.   
    The tuning is worth it.       
   I've noticed you mix very wet.   A lot of mixers on this forum mix just sopping wet.   I don't like so much reverb.   Muddy, soaking wet mixes predominate.   Sorry, it just sounds bad to me.     I hated the "Down down down down,"  I did add as much of the synths and strings as was appropriate.   I don't trust my monitoring system so the high-mids might be too prominent conversely the low end underpowered.

    I don't know what "barrack" means.   Slang from military barracks ?    "mix doesn't barrack"   whut ?  Help a native English speaker out. 

fwiw  I do speak some German, French, several years of Japanese, took enough Latin to get by.   I've been trying to Duolingo Chinese but it's my first time at a tonal language and I suck, it just won't stick.