Blue: Updated

[pauli]

Hey pauli! Glad you like the song. There's 3 more coming next month that I think you will like as well.
I hope you don't mind me telling you how I see the song. Of course this is just hints and I'm happy to hear your take on it, that's the whole idea behind sharing these tracks. I know that I wanted the whole mix to be drowned in delays because I wanted to achieve a dreamy/hypnotic-like quality in the sound.

Now I like the balance of the drums in your mix, although I think the cymbals are a bit loud at times.
Actually, I think the drums overall are too loud compared to the rest of the instrumentation.

I know that the vocals are rather challenging, their sound is pretty muffled (I don't know how I managed to oversee this, honestly), but in the end, I have boosted quite a lot of high frequencies and added some parallel compression and a healthy dose of reverb (plate+room) and delays which helped brighten them up as well. I think you've boosted them nicely, but I guess they are still lacking the parallel processing and are too dry yet as well.

The guitar(s) in your mix are rather low and IIRC I had boosted quite a lot of high end on them as well, and accentuated their delay.
During the chorus in particular, I think they are really driving that part, along with the BGvs.
The vibra/rhodes are more of a pad thing IMHO.

I agree with the arrangement though, now that I listen to it I think it's too linear.
Truth is, this is one of the rare song where I've started from the lyrics mostly, and have spent quite some time on them.
I usually have much more instrumental passages and at least one guitar solo in all my songs, but somehow in this one I decided against, because I thought it was quite long already and more "lyrics oriented" anyway.

But I would be really happy to hear what you can come up with!
Keep it up!

Hey Patrick, thanks for commenting.

I've got all the same quibbles with the mix that you do and I'm planning on restarting it... I usually spit out a quickie mix like this to get an idea as to what I'd like to do with it.

Funny that you mentioned para comp, delays, and plate reverbs on the vocal... because all three are present in this mix but only what I needed to get the vocal where I wanted it.

As for the guitars.. that's gonna be an automation thing. Some places I like them louder than others, but for me the vocal is the most important bit in this song. The drums were mixed in a bit too early during balancing, I agree... the overheads are going to need some wrangling. They're very cymbal and tom heavy.

New mix coming soon!