grn
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I struggled with the mix on this a LOT. I'm still not a fan the hi hat sound. The bass is fat and sounds great on its own, but is almost too much for this song. I could not get a good vocal performance and get the tone I wanted so I essentially did a hi pass on the vocal from 250 up and then sent it to a bus and pitched shifted it down an entire octave to fill in the low frequencies, then used a stereo spreader to make it wider, brought it up until I could just barely hear it then turned it back down. This was after comping vocals, picking doubled vocals out, going in and manipulating the volume dynamics by hand on the beginnings of words/loud parts and making them more dynamic on the endings with false crescendo's, pitch correction, time correction, changed the formant, crazy compression and de-essing... I don't even know. It was crazy. I got a friend to help fill in with vocal harmonies.
Please let me know if you hear anything that sticks out that I can do to make this better. I don't know that I can listen to it objectively anymore. Is the vocal too loud? Drums too harsh? Guitar solo too harsh? Or too muddy?
View attachment 28 November 2020 - When We Grow Old_mixdown.mp3
Please let me know if you hear anything that sticks out that I can do to make this better. I don't know that I can listen to it objectively anymore. Is the vocal too loud? Drums too harsh? Guitar solo too harsh? Or too muddy?
View attachment 28 November 2020 - When We Grow Old_mixdown.mp3