
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Here another mix of Damned if I Do (Don't) with more girth on the drums, as I experimented with the room mics. I have a "ready for CD" version, which is somewhat mastered (and loud), and an EM (electronic medium) version, which is less compressed, and ready for iTunes' RMS/LUFS automatic compression upload format.
I have been lurking your post here...
'Damned If I Do CD mix' is albeit compressed, but the mix sounds better IMO than the EM mix in some aspects. Especially the drums.
What is it you are using differently in those mixes? In the EM Mix the drums have way too much attack and sound strange to me.
Maybe apply what you are doing to the master out to 'only' the drums (group or bus) and not make the master out limiter do the work?
Just a suggestion. I do hear what the master limiter is doing to change certain aspects of the tone overall (guitars included), but I can assure you that if you get everything to sound the way you want before the master out, you will be way happier with the result.
By the way, I am quite impressed with the performance and sorry I didn't interject earlier. Though who cares what I think...
Good shit man!