Hi CD - I've listened to ALL of your masters of this song and just IMHO I believe that your overall sound is amazingly clen, clear, yet I also believe that your mixes are a bit lead vocal heavy. I do not thinkn your last two mixes and bottom heavy in the least.
Just for YOUR own purpose for comparison in the hopes this might assist you in setting up your monitors, here is my final mix using the revised opening drum tracks. I WISH I could get the cleanliness of your mix with the intensity of my mix. I am from the school of very strong drums mixed in your face and all other instruments from low Q to high built from the lowest Q range up for all instruments, with vocals done last to sit just a "bit" above the instruments.
And I only wrote this out just to explain my personal preferences. Not better, worse, etc. And to say it one more time - posted & explained to help YOU in setting up your monitors.
Please let me know what you think related to comparison only and how my mix responds on your monitor system. This mix does not distort or even sound too bottom heavy on my monitors. It just has the intensity of the drums as the main difference in our mixes.
I just hope what i've tried to convey makes sense to you CD and in some way helps. Please let me know when you've got my mix file and I'll come back and remove it so it doesn't have a chance to cause any confusion with anyone who might not understand why I posted it inthe first place.
Take care,
Neal
EDIT: File deleted as it was no longer needed.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2010, 08:57:36 PM by OcalaMusician »
Neal - The Multi-Instrumentalist & Mix Engineer.