The Metallurgist's Semantics

[The_Metallurgist]

Personally, I think this band would like straight punk sound in the face...

then you can go and mix it that way.

i chose not to, but instead had a vision to do something that required more skill, creativity and engineering.

....but that's for another debate.

this forum isn't about debating/guessing what a band might or might not want; we're here to progress our mixing skills through the translation of a mix vision. i personally don't care how you think they should be mixed according to your perceptions and understandings (which isn't difficult to assume, given the band's material is on the web anyway). the only time i'm concerned about such issues is when i'm being paid to take a band's expectations into account in the delivery of product.

so, if you don't mind, i'll continue to express my vision and creativity with the freedom and choice to do so, without constraints of a mix brief, and i'll challenge my technical prowess to the max while doing so. if i didn't want to challenge myself, i'd have mixed it loud and in your face! actually, i wouldn't have bothered mixing it...no challenge doing simple stuff, eh?

Main thing is that you made mix interesting.

i'd have appreciated a more insightful feedback which i can build on, but thanks anyway.