19-02-2013, 10:25 PM
Like gdugan, your brass feels rather underbalanced compared with the rhythm and vocal parts. They're an impressive thing, a big band, but it sounds as if you're sticking most of them in the wings while the others are on stage. That's fine in rock/pop mixing, where the brass usually aren't a big attraction, but here a lot of the interest in the music is in the brass arrangement, so you need to do what you can so that people can appreciate it fully. In this case it takes a bit of in-depth balancing work to keep the balance working nicely throughout, but even if you don't go in for all that lot, I think you still need a load more level in general from the brass.
The blend in your mix, despite my reservations about the balance, isn't bad at all -- one of the better versions I've heard, so whatever you're doing there keep at it, because I think it's working rather nicely.
The blend in your mix, despite my reservations about the balance, isn't bad at all -- one of the better versions I've heard, so whatever you're doing there keep at it, because I think it's working rather nicely.