Drums: Basically the Drums were directed to 4 buses, Kick, snare, toms and Resto where I already have some processes in my template like compression and saturation, in turn these go to the Drum bus, where I have a hornet vu meter so that the drums always hit at -6 peak to the processes that follow, back box, tr5 comprexxor, coffeepun, and a soft Clipper, also some parallel processes like distortion, parallel compression and reverse. There is automation in the volume of the overheads in the striillo to give it more emotion and also in some of the parallel processes.
Bass: I adjust the volumes of the 3 bass tracks, and send everything to a bus where I compress everything very strongly, equalize, also some parallel processes like compression, some early reflections to give it some depth, and distortion.
Electric guitars: use high and low pass filters at about 120 and 8k, use some boosts to emulate cabinets, Crunch, Dist L and Dist R I send them to a bus where I cut around 400hz to give them clarity and add a waves metafilter that increases 0. 5db in the strong beats and in some weak beats to give it movement, it is very subtle, for just use studio one pedalboard and add a couple of pedals to give it more presence on the sides use a chorus pedal, reverb and a delay in 1/8, the GTR Tremolo, it has an automation in the panning, I increased it about 5db in 3k so that it overdrives on that side and I put it at a fairly low volume, wha gtr, has an Autopan at 30% and I put a limiter that I really do not remember why I did it, in the guitars there is a lot of automation of volumes because between verse and chorus sometimes they were in a plane that seemed to me that it was not the right one,
Keys: I equalized them more than anything to take them out of the middle of the guitars, to leave as much space as possible for them, in the keys bus, I filtered the sides to 227, the phase meter of studio one gave me phase problems, I put a tape emulation of ik multimedia to remove a little digital color, compressed with idx, and put a high pass filter at 10k.
BG Vocals: I only compressed them very hard with bx opto, in BG Verse as in the lead voice, there were some consonants with too pronounced transients, I tried many ways to control them and finally I ended up smoothing them with a transient designer, in the BG bus I used a bus compressor, an ott, denise bad tape to give it color and I controlled it a little with dynamic eq.
Lead: the lead vocal I divided it in 2 tracks, one for the verse and another for the chorus, to save me some automation, but basically the 2 are the same, what changes are the parallel processes, the 2 are compressed and equalized in the same way, only the chorus has an increase in the 200k zone, the parallel processes are enough, there is parallel compression but by bands, there is chorus, 3 types of reverb, 3 delays, and a lot of automation in the lead vocal bus, I tweaked a little the eq and added tape saturation.
All this goes to 4 buses, Drum mix, Bass Mix, Musica Mix, and Vocals Mix, in which I gave some eq tweaks, that goes to the mix bus and 2 different types of parallel compression, in the mixbus there is a compressor bus, a multiband compressor, use hornet thrust to clean up peaks and increase the overall loudness, and I think nothing else.
I would like if some charitable soul could give me a feed back, especially of the bad things to have a reference for a next time because so far I have never been selected, I leave you my mix below --->
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6q-3X ... VxVj2/view
What kind of saturation do you use?
, yes it definitely helps to an extent as you tune in much more to the drum sound when listening to songs so you know what to listen out for when you're crafting the mix.
