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Did you write the song or just mix it ?
Its sounds really smooth, the finger snaps are getting my attention a little too much on the first half...personally I’d pull this back slightly.
Reverb seems good to me , I’ll listen again on monitors later.
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I do agree about the pillowy low end. It's got no punch.. But what do you mean by overcooked the low end? Compressed it too hard?
I've always been very safe with my mixes and try to get things sounding as natural as I can. I've no idea what having a dramatic and showy lead vocal entails. Perhaps something like a bigger longer reverb?
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Some interesting ideas there regarding the lead vox. I'll try them out!
I did have a delay track which delays a couple of odd lines in the verse in my project and forgot to render it for the mix down. Gotta remember to get it in.
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I tried a sidechain but did not like the effect so removed it..
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Singer is really nice.
I think this was mixed in a room with a few bass issues.
Sidestick needs to come up- drums sound very far back in the mix.
Personally I'd make the kick a bit less peaky, more 100hz and below, less 3-4k, cut 500hz by 2-3db.
Bass guitar is far too loud and obscures other instruments, I'd also rerecord the part with more staccato playing, fewer long held notes, or at least drop the bass.
If you can't hear this in your room then you have a problem with the bass and need some trapping.
Tom fills linking sections are too quiet- they are basically lost entirely, and I'd include one more around 2:05 to lead into the chorus.
Ride needs to come up too.
Did you intend to mix the drums from the drum seat perspective, rather than the audience facing a drummer perspective?
I'd record more harmony vocals and blend them, I'd probably looks at a counterpoint vocal melody.
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I know it's not recommended but I had no choice but to mix this completely in my in-ear headphones Sony XBA-A1AP (monitors are being serviced at the moment, but I hope I can get them back soon, but even then, they're wee ilouds).
Regarding drummer mix, yes I've always preferred the drum seat perspective. It's easy to visualise being behind a kit. And when you're in front of the kit as an audience, it never sounds as panned as in recordings since they mostly sound like they're coming from ahead (unless u were seated right in front of the kit, which never happens), so that's unrealistic to me.
And unfortunately, I won't be able to record with the singer within the foreseeable future so I'll just have to make do with what I have.
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You can still build up harmonies with the existing material.
Chop out notes, put them into a sampler, sequence the notes as you would a synth.
If you have access to Melodyne you can repitch the notes too.
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One of my most useful boxes I have attached to my DAW is a strobe tuner attached to an output (output 36).
When doing anything like this I call up output 36 on an aux and send that track to the tuner to see how the pitching is, which gives me an idea of how it might blend when yanked around in the arrangement and chopped up.
I'd flesh it all out in the Edit window (for Pro Tools, or the equivalent in another DAW).
I'd look for something that makes harmonic and tone colour enhancements.
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Bass is too subby to me. I don't think it's a level issue so much as a too-much-low-end issue.
To me it's all sounding quite central. Not enough stereo-spread. That could be the bass dominating or it could be you've not been brutal enough with where you're placing each instrument in the stereo-field.
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Main changes are as follows:
Drums:
- added Drew's suggestion for some flam to snare and snap
- raised volume of Hi-hat and Ride and Tom fills
- added tom fill before chorus
- EQ-ed kick following Octatonic's advice
Lead Vocals:
- Added some stereo widener to make lead vox less stark
- boosted reverb a smidge
- slight compression to smoothen it out
- added delayed vocal track (as suggested by stuckfast)
- added abit of automation between sections to match the levels of the instrumentation
Harmony Vocals
- Slight compression to smoothen levels and bring up the level abit
- Removed reverb which was directly inserted on Harmony Vox bus to reduce smear
Bass
- lowered level by 2dB
- removed high pass
Keys & Synths
- Lowered Rhodes by 1.5dB for balance
- raised synth in post-chorus by 0.7 dB
- stereorized synth in post-chorus because the section was sounding very noticeably mono
Misc
- increased stereo separation by increasing the panning (realised that I was very conservative with this as I originally mixed on headphones)
- boosted gain in master channel to raise level of mix
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Kick sounds much better.
For me the bass is still too loud and the guitar part isn't coming through.
Keep going!
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