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TheMikh posted...

listening to the song you sent - the fidelity of your mix is far better than anything i've put out, professional grade imo, and the track is all around phenomenal.

if anything i'd perhaps consider taking down the absolute lowest extremes of the frequency range (particularly with the sub-bass and kick) so it doesn't overwhelm the rest, but not so much where its "impact" is reduced, for lack of better words

a touch of (additional?) saturation on the vocals also wouldn't hurt in bringing it out further

on a more subjective note, vocals might benefit from some [additional?] subtle reverb, perhaps with ~4s decay, particularly around the chorus

i'm not sure what the instrumentation is in the instrumental bridge in particular and the final section, but it seems at times to clash with otherwise flawless layering. i'm not sure what you're going for with it, though i'd personally consider reducing the higher frequencies on that particular section a notch (at least where it's most apparent) and increasing its release time a bit (if possible anyway).

however, you're probably working with a soundsystem with far better fidelity than i do, and again there's a significant degree of subjectivity to these suggestions, so take this all with a grain of salt; it's likely you're hearing some things i can't on my speakers.

Nah it's all on headphones and I think they're just mid range. In today's listening culture that's what everyone is listening on outside of the car so it's probably a fair way to mix anyways, wish I could get some good monitors though.

Yeah I'm still finding the balance; looking at a lot of records/artists like The Weeknd, Bo Burnham's new thing, Daniel Johns 'Talk' (main reason I went electronic from singer-songwriter type) and they have the wall of sound type thing with that deep bass that floors you, but theirs tends to have more texture so I'm tweaking knobs and things trying to get there lol. Right now it's two different bass parts playing the same thing, just panned to different sides. I like the way one bounces but the other is just a lounge lizard wurli-mock with the octave taken down for my 49 key midi board.

I think I'm going to side-chain the bass to the drums and shop around for other plug ins for the wurli bass side. The bass drum is giving all the pulse needed anyways and has that good deep bass sound I'm going for.

The vocals def need some further tweaking, the only work I did there was cutting a bit in the mid but it needs more, and I'm gonna double track them. I completely forgot about the bridge when tracking so I have to record some more of that and then re-record the guitar, the guitar ended up being too low a signal and we lose a lot of tonal quality. Might try doubling the mics and blending.

Thanks for the props and suggestions; went ahead and worked on another one tonight, I can shoot yall mixes of that one eventually too. It's the more hit-potential of the two but it's also a lot more work ie vocal harmonies. Had to get an sm7b since I was losing tone when I got loud with my at-2035

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