Re: [proaudio] made with ProAudio overlay - "demonstrate"

[Reuben Martin <reuben.m@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, June 18, 2016 3:29:35 PM CDT Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
> ahoy all,
> 
>    i would appreciate any comments: technical, creative, positive,
> negative, whatever! thanks sincerely in advance for taking the time to
> read/listen, and please share the suite if you think someone might dig it.
> 

I'm quite impressed. You clearly put a lot of effort into this.

technical stuff:

- A lot of the elements are very up-front in the mix. It makes the dynamic 
range sound a bit too crushed and too many things are competing for attention. 
It's need more "space" and "depth". Perhaps when mastering try to apply 
dynamic compression in mix groups and less so to the final mix as a whole. If 
you're not already using it, multiband compression also helps a lot in 
maintaining dynamic range while still imparting that cohesiveness to the mix 
you get with compression.

- Spatially, many elements are either way too much in the center, or panned 
too hard. It needs more of a finer nuance in the spatial spectrum. You'll find 
this will help provide separation to elements as well so that they are not 
getting lost in each other. Something I've found besides panning that works 
well (as long as the source is already stereo) is to send to another bus, use 
a mid-side stereo plugin to cut out all the center info so you have just the 
side content, and then mix that back in to double up the the unique stereo 
content only. Varying the level that it is mixed back in acts to streach out 
the spatial image to whatever level you want, but is very different in 
character than panning. It works well with sources or mixes that are stereo, 
but not very wide and need more spatial separation.

- Lots of the content is very lush, but the drum kit sounds very thin. Now 
some of that may be due to artistic decisions, or limitations of recording 
resources, but I would try to get more presence and tone out of the kit.

- Bass line needs more meat on the low end. Some of it is just that the bass 
line is an octive too high, but even then it also needs harmonics added to 
give it more body. Trying using the Bass Enhancer from the Calf plugins.

creative:

- You should look into the leslie simulator Robin Gareus made for setbfree. 
(http://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-whirl) It might pair well with with some of 
the synth instruments you are using.


Very nice stuff, I really like track 8.

-Reuben