Mix This - Cranberry Smile

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Theres'a Lead_06 L+R in there.

Edit : sorry, this is wrong. I was looking at the wrong session folder.
 
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This is way out of my area, but it's always fun, and humbling, to try something new/different. I just dropped the files (possibly w/o lead guitar) into Logic, and did some clip gain and panning, organized most things into groups, and then slapped my usual go-to, iZotope Neutron on the summed track groups for a quick EQ and compression setting. (Normally I would use separate Logic compression, but too many tracks for me :)). Added some reverb and a little delay. Probably not mixed nearly as loud and I kept the drums and bass a good bit lower. In fact, I was liking the mix a lot until I realized I'd muted the drum bus :oops:. But, hat's off to OP for a nice song and mix to listen to.

p.s. (edit 6nov) added some limiting in the LV - not sure how the internals handle the over 0.0 level peaks - I noticed it was peaking up there on the individual track, so I tried to get that back in control before it got into the mix. Also minor tinkering with the kick and snare. Moved the guitars around slightly and tamped down some of the slap-back delay on the BGVs. (I really need to be practicing my own guitar...)

p.p.s. (edit 8nov) minor automation on LV to smooth w/o adding more compression.

If it's not obvious, I'm leaning to a bit lower LUFS and a little more vocal/lyrics forward mix; probably because I mostly do singer-songwriter things and the vocal is what I usually think about!
 
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keith.rogers said:
This is way out of my area, but it's always fun, and humbling, to try something new/different. I just dropped the files (possibly w/o lead guitar)
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Apologies, I was mistaken about those file names.
I'd been looking in the wrong session folder over here.

For electric guitars I have the four files from that folder - Elec1+2, Stac, and Backwards.
33 files total.

Perhaps lead is missing.
 
btw, thanks for taking the time to share 'permanently', Nick.
I have it downloaded and set up.
Don't have a lot of spare time each day but I got aux tracks/buses set up how I want them and a quick faders/pans-only mix done.

It's all very well tracked so I'll look forward to chipping away at it, a little bit at a time.
 
Thanks all. This is so interesting, especially as it is my first post on this forum.

In regards to the lead guitar, I created a folder for it (as I do for all my songs), but there's isn't actually a lead guitar part in the song.

Also, thanks to everyone for being so welcoming to a newbie. I like this place :)
 
Hi Nick, really cool track! I would love to have a go at mixing it. I see that you uploaded the stems already. I’ll send you the mix once I’m done with it!
 
Good catchy effort. Did you sing and play everything? I hear Squeeze, Elvis Costello, and The Smithereens in there!
 
rhytard said:
here's a quick mix i did.

i usually do more pop or rock stuff so i tried to make it sound a little bigger. let me know what you think!
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Aside from Compressing the Kick and Snare - did you replace the toms? Or Trigger them?
 
Papanate said:
Aside from Compressing the Kick and Snare - did you replace the toms? Or Trigger them?
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i actually replaced the kick and the snare, i used the original toms since they sounded pretty good to me!
 
Nick Ryder said:
Jellyfish are one of my favourite bands of all time. Such a shame they split when they did as I think they could have been one of the true all time greats.
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Mine as well buddy. (y)

I'd take a stab at a mix myself if I weren't now working on three projects at once. Maybe in a few weeks. 8-)
 
I went Rockier on this - still not sure - but this is a starter mix of your song.
I’m think I’ll remix it in a more pop rock realm. Interesting it reminds me of Squeeze
and others like them.
 

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So here is a second mix accented somethings like the backwards guitar - added a harmony on the 'Start To Choke' section - And Tripled the lead vocal and put effect on it -and put the Bass through a real amp and tried that - let me know what you think about it.



 
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