Hi guys,
Working on an album and dont have much of a choice but to finish the mix on headphones... I think im about at the stage where the mixes are as good as I can get them, but I would really appreciate some outside input. There are 14 tracks but ive linked to two below.
I'm well and truly past the point of losing objectivity and ive been working on this project for a long time.
This was pretty much all done ITB...drums were recorded on an e-kit, guitars direct into my interface (good old trusty UA-25)...and the vocals were direct with an SM58.
This mix has a bit of parallel multiband compression and some fairly gentle compression on the main bus. There is a very subtle soft clipper that is barely doing anything, followed by Pro-L with no more than 2db peak reduction anywhere. Trying to get a loud but not harsh mix as much as possible, but i always shoot myself in the foot writing songs that are far too dense arrangement-wise,which i really want to move away from in the future.
I have to finish this mix on headphones (dt990 pros) and i dont have studio monitors anymore, or access to any right now...if anyone could crank it and let me know how its sounding when its really pushing some air around i would appreciate it!
Any feedback would be appreciated too
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7pjg5rpx9dy9v8/Retroactive.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y62d2sckthlwcn2/Choose Spite.wav?dl=0
Working on an album and dont have much of a choice but to finish the mix on headphones... I think im about at the stage where the mixes are as good as I can get them, but I would really appreciate some outside input. There are 14 tracks but ive linked to two below.
I'm well and truly past the point of losing objectivity and ive been working on this project for a long time.
This was pretty much all done ITB...drums were recorded on an e-kit, guitars direct into my interface (good old trusty UA-25)...and the vocals were direct with an SM58.
This mix has a bit of parallel multiband compression and some fairly gentle compression on the main bus. There is a very subtle soft clipper that is barely doing anything, followed by Pro-L with no more than 2db peak reduction anywhere. Trying to get a loud but not harsh mix as much as possible, but i always shoot myself in the foot writing songs that are far too dense arrangement-wise,which i really want to move away from in the future.
I have to finish this mix on headphones (dt990 pros) and i dont have studio monitors anymore, or access to any right now...if anyone could crank it and let me know how its sounding when its really pushing some air around i would appreciate it!
Any feedback would be appreciated too
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7pjg5rpx9dy9v8/Retroactive.wav?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y62d2sckthlwcn2/Choose Spite.wav?dl=0
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Anything mix wise that jumps out at you?
