Clarity in the rhythm guitars might mean less bass and a slight bump somewhere in the 8-20khz range, and I don't think your reverb was the problem (at least not to my ears). I know these songs weren't all mastered, but I find in my own work, when the overall bass output of all the instruments is too high, it blows out all the other instruments in the mix. Now this is something that is more common/likely to be noticed in the mastering process, but for instance when I start adding compression, the compressors choke our hard on all the extra bass, and the song loses some character. That may or may not apply here, but worth a mention. To be honest, I was listening to all these mixes on my JBL LSR305 monitors, then again on AudioTechnica ATH-M40X headphones, and as they don't have that V shaped EQ boost like your average consumer headphones and speakers, that probably is part of why I heard less treble than I might have otherwise. I imagine had I played this back on my Klipsch system in the living room, might have been a different story...Compyfox wrote:Question time...
I thought the drums could come up a bit, as there were a few spots where I could barely hear the snare hits. While they shouldn't be too loud, I really loved the SNAP of Kolyev's mix. Something more along those lines might have helped, so not necessarily a loudness increase, but some tweaks to EQ, transients, compression, etc. could potentially help on the drums side, particularly on the snare hits. I almost always use some tape saturation on my mixes these days on the snare for some extra bite.
On the lead guitar front, I thought your guitars there were good, and you corrected any complaint I had previously. Much better than your first mix and I actually had no issues with them on this final mix. My suggestions this time around were purely for the rhythm guitars.
