Awesome song, this is my kind of music.
Difficult to balance due to the midrange heavy arrangement with not much high end to work with, but on the first pass mix here it seems I'm getting some decent results. Shelf EQ and a gated reverb helped boost the highs on the drums, but neither helps much with the vocal, so the breathy sound is the result of a savagely EQ'd and de-essed distortion send.
Patrick mentioned on Alan's thread that there's some tonal inconsistency in the vocal track since it's comped together from multiple takes, and that'll be obvious enough in this mix because I haven't addressed it yet... want to see how the community feels about the balance so far before I go down that long and perilous road.
Somewhere down the line I might add a guitar solo? You guys hear me yapping all the time that I'm a musician, and this is smack in the middle of my comfort zone, so might as well. The arrangement could use a little some extra to give it some variety, I think.
Difficult to balance due to the midrange heavy arrangement with not much high end to work with, but on the first pass mix here it seems I'm getting some decent results. Shelf EQ and a gated reverb helped boost the highs on the drums, but neither helps much with the vocal, so the breathy sound is the result of a savagely EQ'd and de-essed distortion send.
Patrick mentioned on Alan's thread that there's some tonal inconsistency in the vocal track since it's comped together from multiple takes, and that'll be obvious enough in this mix because I haven't addressed it yet... want to see how the community feels about the balance so far before I go down that long and perilous road.
Somewhere down the line I might add a guitar solo? You guys hear me yapping all the time that I'm a musician, and this is smack in the middle of my comfort zone, so might as well. The arrangement could use a little some extra to give it some variety, I think.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!