Ronnie Jones - Why Don't You Stay

[juanjose1967]

Here's my mix. Any advice for improvement will be welcomed!

[Olli H]

Balanced and natural mix, I like it.

Drums very good, bass might come up a bit.

Is tambourine too loud?

Vox is not optimally focussed yet, you might try to add some Character to it.

[juanjose1967]

thank you for your suggestions, Olli. I've tried to improve the mix with your ideas.

[Olli H]

Now as the vox is louder, also some sort of boxiness or room modes are more audible. As if you added some character to room modes.

I might try searching something to cut away from 300-400 hz area, maybe also 600-800 area. BTW the free Melda Eq has a nice feature for room modes. For example if there's a problem caused by room around 350 hz, you can easily simultanousely cut from 700 and 1400 etc. And if you sweep for an another frequency, those multiples adjust automatically.

[juanjose1967]

I think I've fixed the vocals now. Not only they're lower but I've done some changes in the EQ and compression.

Thanks!!!

[Olli H]

Sounds great to me.

[claudiom]

Hello Juan,
nice mix ! for my taste, vocals could be a bit more upfront, but it sounds good. I have just started with FL as you did (are you still working with this DAW ?)

[juanjose1967]

thank you guys!!

Claudiom, I'm not using FL anymore. That was in the beginning (four years ago). Then I moved to Reaper and then to Studio One. Reaper was a good DAW, but it used to crash too often in my computer and then I decided to move to Studio One which was more stable.

[claudiom]

Ok ! How did you handle all the dry & DI guitar tracks ? Do you dropped some of them, or use for mix with "wet" tracks or reamp ?

[juanjose1967]

I liked the sound of the wet ones, so I kept those and didn't use the other ones. But I kept them close by just in case that I needed to do something different or that the result with the wet ones were not good enough for what I had in mind