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I'd actually have liked to have given more detail, but the process was more difficult than I had imagined. Next timedavemcisaac wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 05:52 CESTMy compliments to el-bo for handling this barrage with grace and dignity!
Also - thanks for the very detailed critiques. That really helps.
The mix bus debate is something I guess I'll weigh in on at some point. However, would it not have been possible to have controlled those wandering feequencies at track level?Small Ocean wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 14:06 CESTHey el-bo, thanks for the feedback!
Regarding the boomy bass, I totally agree - my mix was definitely too loud on the low end. I think what happened is that because of the rules regarding what you can put on the mix bus and not allowing mastering, I avoided the sort of things I would normally always do, such as a mutli band compressor and mastering EQ on the master. As a result, the low and sub bass frequencies on my mix are highly dynamic and can have very loud transients, when they would normally be filtered out and compressed/dynamics controlled at the mastering stage - something that can still be applied to the mix provided of course!
Thanks for taking the feedback in the spirit intended.SergioITASCO wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 18:10 CESTThank you for your feedback!
I got your points and they make sense.
I'll use this little experience to improve my way to approach this genre.
Thanks again.
As said, I am open-minded to ideas, if I feel they work. It is a risk that you took, which did work in some areas.FixInTheMix wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 22:49 CESTThanks for the feedback el-bo! I aprecciate you took the time to make comments on every entry and with enough detail to understand the mistakes.
I must admit I went too much into experimental ground and missed the overall point of this challenge so your critique it´s understandable.
I am really confused to what happened with the brass tracks tho, I must have lowered the fader by accident or something cause they are almost completely gone and I realized after the deadline so there was nothing I could do
I hope you submit more tracks in future challenges, it was a lot of fun.
I look forward to hearing what you come up withOctopusOnFire wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2017 16:16 CESTGlad to know you liked my entry el-bo! Thanks for the clear and precise feedback, I really appreciate that
Reading your feedback I feel that the mix is almost there and now there are some rough edges that need polishing. This really makes me happy about most of the decisions I made. I'll address the issues you pointed out and hopefully make it even better now that I have fresh ears.
Cheers!
Of course, I suppose I just instinctively want to preserve as much dynamics as possible at the mixing stage, and then leave it up to the mastering engineer to eq and compress (including the bottom end) to taste.el-bo wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 08:58 CESTThe mix bus debate is something I guess I'll weigh in on at some point. However, would it not have been possible to have controlled those wandering feequencies at track level?Small Ocean wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 14:06 CESTHey el-bo, thanks for the feedback!
Regarding the boomy bass, I totally agree - my mix was definitely too loud on the low end. I think what happened is that because of the rules regarding what you can put on the mix bus and not allowing mastering, I avoided the sort of things I would normally always do, such as a mutli band compressor and mastering EQ on the master. As a result, the low and sub bass frequencies on my mix are highly dynamic and can have very loud transients, when they would normally be filtered out and compressed/dynamics controlled at the mastering stage - something that can still be applied to the mix provided of course!
Gotcha!Small Ocean wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 14:16 CESTOf course, I suppose I just instinctively want to preserve as much dynamics as possible at the mixing stage, and then leave it up to the mastering engineer to eq and compress (including the bottom end) to taste.el-bo wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 08:58 CESTThe mix bus debate is something I guess I'll weigh in on at some point. However, would it not have been possible to have controlled those wandering feequencies at track level?Small Ocean wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2017 14:06 CESTHey el-bo, thanks for the feedback!
Regarding the boomy bass, I totally agree - my mix was definitely too loud on the low end. I think what happened is that because of the rules regarding what you can put on the mix bus and not allowing mastering, I avoided the sort of things I would normally always do, such as a mutli band compressor and mastering EQ on the master. As a result, the low and sub bass frequencies on my mix are highly dynamic and can have very loud transients, when they would normally be filtered out and compressed/dynamics controlled at the mastering stage - something that can still be applied to the mix provided of course!
Clav - Don’t mind the modulation effect, but such an effect benefits from a touch more movement.
