05-05-2015, 04:09 AM
Hi Ben,
Well done for posting a mix. Just wanted to leave a couple of comments, hopefully constructive
First impression was that some of the drum tracks (sounded like the overhead_R track) were too loud - so just work at getting a better balance between this and the rest of the drum kit (eg kick was much quieter) and the other non-drum tracks. It was hard to hear the other instruments with those loud drums. Vocals came over well. I thought you dealt with the excessive brightness (around 4k) of the lead vocal really well.
The overall level of your mix was quite low. While you don't want to overload the mix bus, you probably want to be aiming for a higher level than what you've done. And better to do this during the mix with individual channel faders than just slapping some kind of volume gain on the master bus.
Hope that gives you something to work on!
Cheers
Well done for posting a mix. Just wanted to leave a couple of comments, hopefully constructive
First impression was that some of the drum tracks (sounded like the overhead_R track) were too loud - so just work at getting a better balance between this and the rest of the drum kit (eg kick was much quieter) and the other non-drum tracks. It was hard to hear the other instruments with those loud drums. Vocals came over well. I thought you dealt with the excessive brightness (around 4k) of the lead vocal really well.
The overall level of your mix was quite low. While you don't want to overload the mix bus, you probably want to be aiming for a higher level than what you've done. And better to do this during the mix with individual channel faders than just slapping some kind of volume gain on the master bus.
Hope that gives you something to work on!
Cheers