19-12-2015, 09:08 PM
Thanks for the feedback. After listening with fresh ears, crisp is an understatement. When I was generally happy with the balance, I pulled up some music on YouTube for comparison and discovered the low mids had built up the top end was a bit dull. It's like boiling a frog in water, you never feel it happen. So I picked one song I thought sounded good to my tired ears and EQ'd the 2-bus to match. Guess I got a bit carried away with the high shelving EQ. I may revisit that snare again. My original thinking was high pass the overheads in the upper mid range and use a gate with a fast release on the snare for punch. I compressed the snare a bunch and tried to blend it back with the overheads, but it never sounded natural. I have a couple of other ideas I want to try.