Critique on Engineering/Mixing

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So this is the most decent thing we got out of a recent session. I know there are performance problems. This project was for a friend and no one lost any money on it.....so that's good. But over all I feel pretty good about the sounds we got and I think I mostly like the mix. Would you all let me know what you think? What could/should be better. Thanks.


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She has a great voice. What did you do to it? It sounds like a faint phaser (maybe chorus is more likely?) effect or something. Kind of cool actually, but maybe back off it a bit if you don't want it to be prevalent. It makes her voice sound kind of hollow, which again is cool, if that's what you're going for.

I thought the higher bass parts kind of got lost admist the lower keyboard parts at times. I thought the performances were good. Some of the changes were unusual enough that I wasn't sure if the drums were as intended and just foreign to me, or slightly off.

There was a point, as low as the overall mix volume seemed to be, where something in the low end seems to clip right about 1:12 which was a shame as that was sort of a big build-up right there.

These are all pretty minor things and I could be totally wrong, but overall I thought it was well done and I enjoyed checking it out. Thanks.
 
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Actually the only effect on her vocal is some reverb. I doubled her vox on a few places (from multiple takes) so that may be what you're hearing. I'm not sure. There are definitely some places where the drums don't hit quite right, I wish I had the time to retrack. I will check out 1:12. Thank you!

I was really happy, like I said as this was my first real session. I'd never mic'd a drum kit before, I'd never done any of it. So it was a great learning experience but I want to get better.

Thanks again for the feedback.
 
everything sounds pretty good, i might scoop some mids from the kick but overall everything sounds very good.
 
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