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THIS! Same OCD. :D In mixing, my inclination would be to reduce the monotonous parts and bring up the ear candy. The thump and the rhythmic chords are not the feature here, but they are the feature of the mix - which, like the waveform, is the OPPOSITE of what I'd have done. Put the bed in...

As per usual, often I just go "What Trip said". I always find my first impression of such is "cool sound!" - which if it doesn't "do something else" wears quickly on me. That's the trick of this genre. I don't go to dance clubs to listen to music for the same reason. So what might work in that...

Everything in this is fake. In that, I mean the bass is a synth. The drums are sampled midi. The bongos are a rhythm loop. The female vocals are Yamaha vocaloid synths. The chimes MIGHT be real, but the cymbal swells are samples. Thinking more closely, I think the chimes are samples too - though...

Google "compression" and "midrange bloom". It will explain it in far more depth than I can muster in short form text format. Put simply, when things get squashed, the midrange pokes out more prominently, because all things being equal, the human ear is more sensitive to that region of...

Truth told, Mark, and I'm serious, when I listened back again, I THOUGHT the bass was a little hot - especially compared to the "Crowded House" version suggested above as well. So I rolled it back ever so slightly. I also pulled the drums back and -- altered the snare sound to be slightly less...

It's funny. When Rob sent me a bunch of replacement sounds, I thought it a brilliant exercise. I'd used Kontakt's Rick as the original bass, but I have Trilogy by Spectrasonics - which I hadn't used in forever so I found that my authorization on my rig had expired. I went there and saw they'd...

Oh yeah - THERE YOU GO! You NAILED it. Nice work. There's exactly the spread and movement to the mix that I envisioned. Now perhaps just a hair back on the limiter until the glue remains, but the harsh mids disappear and the the edges of the sound round out. It's not a lot of pull back - just...

I'm a fan of the Finn bros back to Split Enz. I gave a quick spin through the tracks and I get the reference. The drums are midi. I can change the sound to about anything I want. Part of the reason the keys and rhythm section don't syncopate is because, frankly, the rhythm section came last in...

I have not as of yet - but I'm on my way.

So ... I followed Rob's (above) lead and experimented with different voicings and I manipulated the midi track for more ever so slight randomness. Better?

Oh - yeah. It's Kontakt's ratty Rick. :D PM me your email. I'll shoot you the midi file. I would LOVE to see if you can massage it closer to a more natural presentation. You're right. I have a LOT of "elbow grease" into the part already. My approach was "softening the edges" ... but I think...

I don't normally comment on the tracking, focusing on mixing what you've got. I will, though, second this initiative. The limiting is MUCH better - but you're in the "range" where if it pleases your ear, then it is done. I'd probably bring it back another db or two nonetheless - to please mine...

The bass in this has a curious history. It started as me doing midi. It was very lame. I then reached out to the boards (here and Recording project) and Wayne Glaser submitted a perfect part for it - which was fine (for the time) as it was, note for note, spot on. As I refined the sound of the...

You're right - not RAM - McCartney 1.

Did McCartney leave this off of "RAM"? This is a prime example of how to do exactly this. It's extremely perfect for what it is - and I am serious.

I'm hearing a bit too much limiting. Everything seems turned up to the max. It's fatiguing in wince factor to listen to accordingly - and it has got a midrange nasal quality to the overall mix that is the likely result of the harder limiting byproduct. When all the frequencies are squished, the...

Nice and clean - is my first impression. You might want to listen to American HiFi to get an idea of a model to follow for this type of mix. You've bunched the middle. Take the BGVs and get them all off wide L/R. Try to have your gits fall in and around the 10 and 2 o'clock range off center...

Good Sunday Morning to you all! This quick two-fer is another quick listen to see if I got anything wrong w/ the limiting/mix on these pieces I just rolled out of production w/ new mastering tools. Both are piano based pieces - and I THINK I have them dialed in nice and clear. What I'm asking...

That's a good point to make. It's not an "all or nothing" proposition.

In studio trickery, there are 4 different snares being blended here. There's the original. Then I did a "sound replacement" additional track in Cakewalk and added their snare sound to the original. Then I converted the track to midi and added in two additional linked snare via Addictive Drums 2...