If anybody has an interest in critiquing a song as I currently have it processed/mixed, I'd be interested to know if I'm way off base on anything. Obviously everybody's taste is different, but I'm looking for gross negligence -- things that everybody can agree need adjusting. I've posted it here in uncompressed 24/48 .wav format:
https://soundcloud.com/user1965380/milwaukee/s-MrtwqThis song contains acoustic guitar, drums, and two different keys (melody and bass, respectively). It's their longest song because it always contains an improvisational spoken part in the middle. I thought maybe the variety would make it a good song to critique.
Some things I've done:
EQ to the kick tracks (bussed)
EQ and light compression to the snare tracks (bussed)
EQ to the hat
fairly sizable high pass on the OHs, but then lowered these in the mix relative to the newly-treated kick/snare/hat
Nothing to the toms
Nothing to the ride
Nothing to the acoustic guitar
Light compression/limiting on the keys was because of this song, where they get a little loud at the end
No other processing of the keys (amp sims, etc)
All vox rolled off at 50 Hz, de-esser, and light compression and reverb
No additional processing of the master track
I've turned off the center audience mic because it's placed right over the stage monitor and is pretty polluted from that. I've got the others panned fairly wide. I've been playing with fading up the center AUD mic only between songs (or otherwise when it's mostly pure AUD sound), and I've liked the result of that. Is there any technical reason not to do this? I didn't do that on this mixdown, as I haven't started playing with envelopes yet. I'm simply playing with fading it up while monitoring in real-time.