27-07-2017, 04:49 PM
Wait, the drummer is complaining the drums are too loud? Damn, Mandubien, you've just destroyed one of my longest held pet theories - that everyone, given the chance, will mix their own favoured instrument as loud as possible...
But in all seriousness, I found this mix to be quite listenable overall. It's a pretty good effort! The overall mastering was decent in terms of overall loudness, compression and limiting, which is a sad rarity on this site. Nothing worse than playing an otherwise decent mix only to see the meter constantly jump up into the red on my mixer, or worse, so over-compressed and limited that it stops being a mix anymore and could just be every track normalized and set to 0... This is FAR from that...
However, that said, Mandubien is right - the vocal is often buried under the drums or other instruments. You would benefit from going through the song again, and keeping in mind that, really, in almost any song, the vocal IS the one thing that needs to shine out amongst everything else. Give it some love! You might be onto a winner...
But in all seriousness, I found this mix to be quite listenable overall. It's a pretty good effort! The overall mastering was decent in terms of overall loudness, compression and limiting, which is a sad rarity on this site. Nothing worse than playing an otherwise decent mix only to see the meter constantly jump up into the red on my mixer, or worse, so over-compressed and limited that it stops being a mix anymore and could just be every track normalized and set to 0... This is FAR from that...
However, that said, Mandubien is right - the vocal is often buried under the drums or other instruments. You would benefit from going through the song again, and keeping in mind that, really, in almost any song, the vocal IS the one thing that needs to shine out amongst everything else. Give it some love! You might be onto a winner...