Hannes Keseberg - You Know Better -Post MS Review and Competition Final

[Mixinthecloud]

Hey man...
I was listening carefuly your mix after listen some other and first of all, the best thing was your way of mixing, the way I think the best mix arise which is a combination of audio understanding and a good taste what at least for me means less is more. I say "less" because sounds cleand, balanced, there's nothing sounding extreme like a personal evidence, I mean, of course you mixed as you like, but nothing sounds overkill. I just finish my last version of this mix and will post now and how I was listening many other included yours, I confess...I don't can't judge now who did some sampling in the drums or some hard editing... but I could listen in your drum kit that somethings I had issues mixing is there, in this case, sidestick whith kick many times it's out of sync, and the hats befere and after some fills has losses on grooving and when I started mixing this kind of thing makes me sick! lol. I know it's something personal, but I really get stucked trying to do something with that and when I see I am listening things that sometimes doesn't exist... finding phases problens, well...maybe I have a obsessive compulsive disorder....and when it happens there's two solutions for me...or I just leave as it is and try to correct the best I can using beat detective and in worse cases elastic audio...or I just take a decision to resample the piece is boring me. But even with this irregular perfomance of the drummer (not saying he is not a good drummer), I just listening your mix whithout worrying if that...so, at least for me you leave it natural but in the context there is not drawing attention. Congrats. I want to "chill" my ears and listen again, and if I get something to share about it to improve, I write again!

Wow. A lot of thought went into your response. I hope there is something in my style and approach you can take away with you. In general I try not to do too much "correction" in a mix and tend to trust the artists and musicians and engineers who produced it to have determined what they recorded is what they are happy with. That is not to say I am not cognizant of phase issues and have aligned things in this mix. If I feel something is destroying the groove I will address it. However, I did not find anything in this that met that criteria. I also try to determine what the song is about. Too often I hear approaches to this type of content that would best be applicable on a metal or hard rock song. To me that is inappropriate. It is not necessarily wrong. My philosophy is listen first. My age and experience have a lot to do with my approach.

Thanks for your review and effort.