The Black Crown - Cage - Mix and Master by Brett Lewis @ Endgame Studio

[boomaga]

Hi,

Please critique my mix and master of Cage.

Added second master with more multi-band compression.

   Listening to mix 2
   I like the space of the snare, the reverb that opens up a room sound and it's nice and snappy.   I also like the slight distortion on the lead vocal.      
   One immediate issue I notice is that the lead vocal is off beat - maybe because of latency, processing of the insert plugins you have on it, or maybe it got shifted, but it's behind the beat like by a small interval.   I don't mean a whole beat or eighth or sixteenth, I mean just a nudge.     The word "different" in the first line "Different tales..." is supposed to land exactly on the 4 of measure 1, "tales" on the 1 of measure 2 of the verse - you don't have to lose the plug ins but maybe just pull the vocal track forward a few tics to compensate.   
    There's a lot of reverb building up smog by 45 seconds in and also at 1:15 - particularly after the low tom hits - if you don't want to lower the reverb times then consider at least cutting the low end EQ off the tails.    
    It seems you're either not using the backing vocal tracks at all, or maybe you comped between the 3 leads. and just left out the harmony entirely.    OR the double track lead vox and harmony are so low in the mix they're just buried.    That's a production choice, nothing wrong with it.  Wait, a harmony just popped up at 3:50 "don't you feel the hate" - barely heard it.
    Yeah by 3:25 the low tom reverb in particular  is just pumping out a lot mud.   
   I like that your mix is making electronic drum kit sound real.  I don't know how much you relied on the Drums Room Stereo track but I found it got so washy with cymbals in the choruses it was hard to tame.   Great work !