The Great Enough - Setting Fire to Die Young - Updated - Mix 6

[Roy]

I'm listening on different, less familiar earbuds at the moment so take my usual grain of salt with yet another grain of salt.
Personally I'm not a fan of the saturator because it feels like it adds a level of artificialness and brittleness (I think, I'm not happy with that choice of adjective) and makes me think it's an overall distortion and not something on the guitar alone. But I'll fully concede that might just be my ear and awareness of the effect. The average user wouldn't notice. I thing the micro pitching helps. Is it delayed as well? Maybe some rides on the solo sections?

Tonally it feels good. Certainly meaty. I do wish the snare had a little more crack to cut through all the meatiness. More salt on the steak, as it were. The bass is pretty big (at least on these earbuds) but the right size of big.

Vocals sound good. Besides the effect at the top I think it could use something else to maybe help it punctuate some sections or to help highlight the chorus more.

That's all that jumps out at me. Sounds really good with some minor thoughts. Good job.

Roy,
All good observations. The saturator does border more on the distortion side of things, but that is what I wanted for the otherwise 'too clean' guitar track against the buzz and meat of the track and the character of the lyric. As for delay, ostensibly there should be none but I cannot guarantee that in StudioOne. The guitar is duplicated and then pitch shifted. No intentional delay was added. It does sound as if there is something else going on with the tracks. I tried mightily to get more definition on the snare which includes a gate on the snare buss to eliminate the cymbal bleed. The snare bottom did not help much. I think to get more definition I will need to redo my gain structure and that is something I am not really looking forward to! As I stated I was lazy about definition on the track in general and to get it a redo of the gain structure will be necessary. This take is the organic growth from my initial ideas.

I did almost no automation on this and I think that is an oversight too. The vocal could be modulated through the arrangement so it sits better as the dynamics of the track change around it. Same can be said for the guitar.

Good ear and thanks for your time and comments.

Cool. I mostly mentioned the delay because that's usually an element of that kind of faux eventide 519 micro pitch shift thing. Usually really,really short. I was just curious if it was something that was also happening, not something I was actually hearing.

I totally understand about not wanting to mess with the gain structure.

Anyway, all minor points. Good job.