Old 06-18-2014, 11:03 AM   #1
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Howdy folks,

I'm working on a remix contest entry. At the same time I'm trying to adopt a better mixing technique, i.e. using busses/submixes and sends, as well as using minimal compression. There's a little more EQ going on than I'd like but it's the only way I could balance the instruments the way I did.

Besides being terribly out of time, is there anything I should have a look at?

I'm going for a newgrass/country sounding something.

https://soundcloud.com/ezyo-pourchez...-mix-preview-4

Thanks for checking.

Giving the original would be rather useless, because it's basically an entirely different arrangement (I only kept the vocals).

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Old 06-18-2014, 12:53 PM   #2
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Sounds great to me, much better than any of my mixes

Good spacing/separation on the mix, all the instruments sound "natural," if that makes any sense. I like that the bass can clearly be heard but is not overpowering.

Keep it up. Good work
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Old 06-19-2014, 01:30 PM   #3
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Thanks!

I'm not totally satisfied with the placement of the instruments. The guitar competes with the vocal in the middle, if I put the mandolin up the middle the snare competes with it. I could try placing the banjo in the middle, however. I suppose the banjo might compete a little less with either vocal or snare, despite it being a drum with strings.
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Old 06-19-2014, 04:18 PM   #4
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I really like what you've done with this song !! i love this style of song and combination of instruments ( i'm a huge Newgrass fan )


Did you play all the instruments ?

With the mix, the vocals sound great, the bass also sounds good but the rest of the instruments sound a little dull, in comparison.
I guess EQ is your first stop to remedy that.

I also find placing acoustic guitar, bass, vocals and drums centre that i end up with frequency problems, I'd try moving the acoustic guitar of centre for a start see what that does.

Sometimes i'll save a new version of the mix and just mess around with instrument placement until i find what works best and often its not what i thought would work.

Again realy like what you've done.

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I also find placing acoustic guitar, bass, vocals and drums centre that i end up with frequency problems, I'd try moving the acoustic guitar of centre for a start see what that does.
Sort those out in mono first before going to stereo.
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Thanks!

Yes, I played all the instruments. I took the vocal stems and recorded new instrumentation.

I too noticed that I had to move instruments around again. I'm gonna try to move the banjo to the middle instead, see where that gets me.

I sorted everything out in mono, too, but I might be able to improve on ti a little.
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