Ja Make Ya Dance - Pass 6b "Final Polish"

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Hi! Very interesting mix with a lot of nice effects!
For me, the reverb on the bassdrum at the beginning could have a (higher) highpass and the pan of the Sax+Delay is too wide.

Guido,
Thanks for the input. I will look at your suggestion on the hi-pass on the kick verb. It might help tighten things up a bit more. Thanks for that.

There are actually three pans on the delays for the sax sections, R,L & C. There is a stereo ping-pong going on with the delays so if it was panned center the input would put echo one-right, echo two-center and echo three-left. However, I have panned the delay output hard right which results in the delay being echo one-right, echo two-center, echo three-muted. The muted space is then taken by the next played note of the sax which is panned hard left. That's for the first sax section. In the second section, the process is reversed. Those are the subtle changes I love to make in some of my mixes. It is something I have copped from musicians from Rickie Lee Jones, to Hughey Lewis. Subtle but recognizable variations to repeated phrases. As for the extreme placement, it was necessary for even distribution of the ping-ponged echos plus I liked the way it jumped away from the sound field. And it looked really cool as a Lissijou pattern (phase meter)! I tend to mix visually so think of someone doing interpretive dance to this.