Brennon Causey Mixing - "Daddy D"

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Yes thats a nice trick , you can also have a reverb on an aux and then put a compressor or limiter or whatever on it and make it act as sidechain against the original vox track, then it gets lower when vocal sings and comes back afterwards, this could apply to drums 2. I think i remembered from listening to this mix that the solo sounded like eric johnssons tones sort of, like from cliffs of dover so that is what i liked the most in this mix. It feels a bit on the dull side though but it is very subtle. The dynamics of your vocals could be more altered with fastest attack and medium to fast release to bring a bit of peaks down. I think that you kept it more dynamic because of the ringyness in the highmids of the vocals right? I think automating that out or use soothe or some other dynamic eq plug could sometimes solv that so that you can have less dynamics. I also kept my vocal dynamic, but i think that is the next step for live music, to really get the volume flat even though he has a dynamic vintage 88 handheld which makes him go in and out a couple of times aswell. But also automating would be the best, thats next step for me to learn but i havent start using that 2 much, i like the clipgain function in protools but i don't own that, i only use reaper.

I've always loved Eric Johnsons tones, I was a fulltime guitar player myself before getting more into mixing. I also use reaper because that's what I'm most familiar with. I use automation once I've really nailed the dynamics down on something and it needs to be louder or quieter. I even things out but try to use it musically and give long release lines to stuff, or make transients punch out.