Opinions on a Possibly Unorthadox Approach to Mixing.

[Trep]

There's gonna be a few idiot questions here, but im keeping things stupid simple for the point of this topic

So I was Discovering that the Current Mix i was working on was severley lacking low mids and Body. (as most of my mixes are) I figured I would test this out, the simplest possible way.

I opened up a Bounced Copy of my Mix and referenced it against one of my favourite productions - "Sound Awake" - Karnivool. From There I EQed the Stereo track My mix was on until they roughly sounded had the same sounding EQ Curve.

To my Surprise the Results were rather successfull after hearing in on alternative monitoring. The Mix Sounded much fuller and Bigger, as i wanted it.

What Im Confused is, This is the simplest possible approach to fixing my problem, and i was pretty happy with it. It almost seems like reverse logic that after spending hours on balancing my mix to what i thought sounded good initially, 5 minutes with an EQ and a decent reference track, did the job.

Has anyone every done this specifically, or has anyone ever been in an experience where something really simple or unorthadox has fixed a problem and you've doubted it lol

Also, What other ways would you suggest I try to add more lower mids.

By the way, this mix if part of an EP going to a commercial mastering suite is there anything else to consider in this method.

Is there something that Im missing here? lol

thanks

 

[JamesNorman]

By the way, this mix if part of an EP going to a commercial mastering suite is there anything else to consider in this method.

Take everything off the master bus man, then if they want a radio edit of the ep/song export another mix with the the vocals up about 3db so when i gets heavily compressed on the radio the vocal i sstill clear........

 

[professorlamp]

One of my best tracks was one that I referenced against a commercial release, I'll be doing it alot more from now on. Sometimes I do struggle to find something that sounds similair to my songs to reference it against but I think that's more to do with just killing your ego and facing the fact that you're not the next king crimson and your songs DO sound like other songs