david baker
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I humbly submit for your consideration this mix of a Spitefire Music Group song performed By Alexx Calise .Any thoughts
Thanks, David.View attachment Wasting Away.Mp3
Thanks, David.View attachment Wasting Away.Mp3
I think the drums are too loud. The section starting at 2:12 is the best example of it. Those cymbals are smashing and distracting. I'd also work the vocal differently - the drop in volume into the screaming sections is exaggerated. 1:42 - 1:50 compared to 1:52 is a good example of why the vocals need more work. Look at volume/gain automation/edits and then compress later. Balancing of the instruments sounds like it'll bring this much closer to the end goal.
The performances and recordings are great, but the mix needs some more work.
No. It sounds like you didn't want to manually edit the volumes, so you limited the vocals drastically. I'm saying this because of audible distortion on the vocal as well as the "ess" sections sounding like a lisp...the esses are sometimes 15db louder than the rest, naturally, and those are slammed terribly here. And when they are hit that hard with compression, they sound like lisps. That's what you have. 3:19-3:20 is lisping.
I told you earlier you need to manually edit the volume by hand without a compressor. Even out the volume word by word, or this won't work. That's where the "work" comes in.
If you don't know how to do that, it's pretty easy, just time consuming. Highlight the wav, enlarge the view of the waveform, chop the wav into sections according to big volume changes, then drag the loudest peaks down. It could be every few words, it could be the "big" important lines in the chorus, just use your ears and eyes for this task.