Clients are gonna send this out any last minute touchups?

[Joel4662]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13836295/back flops.mp3
I've invested 14 hours in this song so I want it to be perfect.
It's sturgisy, yeah, but that's what people want around here.
Anyways thoughts?

 

[Joel4662]

bump.

 

[Sam Bottner]

Lay off the reverb on the snare a lot, it sounds ridiculous.

 

[AdamG94]

I agree, too much verb on the snare. You should bus the whole kit to a reverb and not since instances on each part, it helps you get the glue. Also that snare needs more 'smack' and less 'splat', which a nice bump around 2.5-3k will achieve.

The mix could do with a little more bass imo, although I get the feeling some of the bass parts don't help the mix. For example the bridge at 2:07 feels really epic and heavy bass wise and then in other parts of the song (example 1:20) it feels to empty bass wise because the bass is only playing root notes.

 

[Joel4662]

I agree, too much verb on the snare. You should bus the whole kit to a reverb and not since instances on each part, it helps you get the glue. Also that snare needs more 'smack' and less 'splat', which a nice bump around 2.5-3k will achieve.

The mix could do with a little more bass imo, although I get the feeling some of the bass parts don't help the mix. For example the bridge at 2:07 feels really epic and heavy bass wise and then in other parts of the song (example 1:20) it feels to empty bass wise because the bass is only playing root notes.

For the snare, I automate the reverb (you can probably tell) is it too big the whole time? Or just on the "big" parts?

Bass is sadly a monitoring issue for me (<90hz) but I'll work on it thanks

 

[AdamG94]

The snare at the start has about 100% more reverb than it needs, and there is only a bit too much reverb on it the rest of the time. It feels that way because it's not attached/glued to the rest of the kit, so applying the reverb to the whole kit would help there too since for the snare to feel big the whole kit has to feel big, so panning, EQ and compression are important too.

Maybe try some parallel compression on the drums too, that'll help with the 'big feel'.

 

[Joel4662]

The snare at the start has about 100% more reverb than it needs, and there is only a bit too much reverb on it the rest of the time. It feels that way because it's not attached/glued to the rest of the kit, so applying the reverb to the whole kit would help there too since for the snare to feel big the whole kit has to feel big, so panning, EQ and compression are important too.

Maybe try some parallel compression on the drums too, that'll help with the 'big feel'.

Hmm mkay
I actually have the smaller reverb on the whole kit (or at least they're all sent the same amount), and the big one just on the snare.
Also have them para-compd already so I'll turn it up.
I'll update it when I get off work tonight