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Old 02-26-2019, 03:58 AM   #19
bbenderr
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Originally Posted by Fergler View Post
I didn't submit in the end, damn, but I will give feedback:

1: Quiet vocals. Generally muddy. Bass hits well, snare has a cool 90s vibe. Can hear all parts.

2: Bass clanks thru nice but doesn't support guitars. Sounds even weaker when kick comes in. Prechorus loses power. Chorus toms stick out a lot

3: Raised volume of intro, good. Great bass growl. Snare over compressed, kick lost. Cymbals buried when not accompanied by snare hits. Guitars very mid heavy. D Background vocals could be louder, but did like the focus on the gutteral vocals. Solos sound live like recorded on a phone camera. Heavy heavy compression on the bus on this mix? Sidechaining? Not desirable imo.

4: Great kick thud, could use a bit more tilting towards high end and a bit of snap. Bass gets lost. Muddy overall timbre of mix. Vocals especially background is quiet. Interesting tom panning but it does make them into a separate 'room' in the mix. Gives it an over-dubbed feel.

5: Big build up around 1k. Bass doesn't get lost but guitars lose their weight. Ringing on drums is distracting (chorus especially). Solos quiet and boxy.

6: Cool growl on bass, but does get lost later in verse. Pops through almost too much in prechorus and chorus. Drums are nice and present. Bit wide on tom panning, similar issue to mix 4. Vocals have a lot of verb on them that doesn't match rest of mix. Solos could use a bit more lifting out of the mix.

7: Also raised volume of intro. Opening guitar chugs lost a lot of their original untouched power. Bass is well processed but too loud. Guitars in general in the mix besides the chorus lost a lot of power. Chorus feels left-side heavy for guitars. Was a reamplifcation or heavy EQ used on the right side guitar? Good treatment of vocals. Kick is pillowy. Toms very quiet. Solos have an AM radio quality - what happened to their high end?

8: Guitars pretty good, though a bit muddy. Bass can be felt but is unclear. Kick overpowers it immediately when it comes in with the verse. Vocals could be a bit louder. Pumping audible on cymbals. Solos very quiet compared to rhythm, boxy. Acoustic guitar part got shifted in time by accident?

9: Winner for me. Good guitar and bass but could do with more subs. Best drum mix so far but has a bit of a slapback reverb thing going on that is too loud. However, the effect it has of separating the drums from the rest of the mix has a good thing going on. Just out of proportion. Drums overpower the mix in general. Vocals too much verb, and certain phrases are too quiet (prechorus). Guitars sound huge in different way than the original recording, it's cool. Doomy. Maybe not what the 'band' was going for but nice direction. Solos did lack bite standing up next to the wall of guitars.


Overall: Balance the vocals, their volume jumps around a lot. Bring up the intro and breakdown area. Bass gets lost easy in this mix, I think the best mixes used distortion and compression to keep it consistent and present and didn't let the blastbeat kicks over power it. Lay off the buss compression, there is too much high frequency stuff in this mix getting swooshed around by stereo limiters especially on mix 3. Bring solos to the front with high shelf EQ.
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