Jay Menon

[Amdavid5150]

Your snare sounds great. I used a pultec on it and used properely added good body. I really like your mix, I think some may have a problem with the snare not because of the snare but because of the mix around the snare. Which in your case I consider weird because I don't know if I would change anything, great mix. If I HAD to recommend something it would be working on the whole mix through a reverb bus. I don't know, I love your mix.

[pauli]

Thanks Amdavid5150... the snare is the main challenge on this track aside from how much cleverness the reverb situation requires.

The snare really didn't come out as I'd hoped... I was hoping for a little more body and a little more snap, and that's probably not a very contentious desire in this situation, so I imagine that's what's bugging the others. I know it bugged me but I made the snare less central to the mix than I would have otherwise and I'm happy with the way things turned out. Time to give your version a listen

[emmrecs]

pauli, I like this mix, though I would tend to agree with the general feeling, your snare track is a little "too big". I understand why you wanted to make it "prominent" - in my own mix I wanted the same effect - but perhaps your reverb is a tad overdone!

I see you wrote in an earlier post commenting on the vocal and musical skills of Jay Menon. I fully agree! This is, perhaps, one of the "easiest" tracks for a beginner (me) to have a go at: apart from setting suitable balances between the various components, some eq, compression and reverb, there is really not a lot else to do!!