gubu

Love the song. The mix is pretty good - there are some things that jump out at me. Bear in mind that these critiques are usually wholly subjective!

I'd like to hear it without the limiter on there. It seems like the louder sections, the choruses and the outro, are too intense, too much limiting. Everything is a little bit too upfront during these sections.

Did you EQ some of the mix elements for presence, boosting the mids/hi-mids? That could also be the reason why it sounds a little too upfront. If you did EQ for maximum presence, I'd kill those EQ boosts on the guitars for starters.

Apart from that, the sonics are really good. Crystal clear, and importantly, a good song and a musical mix.

My only other suggestion might be to cut somewhere around 1000-1600Hz on the 'loudhailer' style vocals, and take them back 2 or 3 dB overall, perhaps turning up the reverb send as well (especially on the 'come back' lines @~2:20). That type of vocal effect needs quite a bit of reverb to sit in a mix properly, and probably some compression.

Hi Studio Trenches,

http://soundcloud.com/gubu/times-blossom3

Hoping to get some feedback on this mix and the overall sound. I just did a K-System calibration and this is the first mix off the machine.

All comments appreciated, like how hard is it to mix a vocal and guitar haha!

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Beautiful guitar. Stolen from Cahir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1996.

No reward offered, just give it back please, it was a 1st wedding anniversary present