Hi - having just completed a part time years course at a local college recording and mixing live bands, duets and even a chorus of 30 people, I have brought this experience back to the home studio and applied what I have learnt for my own songs. This is the latest and I would appreciate any comments on the recording/mix in particular, even if you don't like the song itself.

http://www.artistlaunch.com/artists/songs/m3u/Antony_Richards_-_Give_and_Take.mp3.m3u

Thanks

Antony

Sounded pretty decent to me for being done in a home studio. What gear did you use? Hard disk or recorded to pc? Good song though, not my cup of tea but sounded pretty cool.

It's a decent mix. Could use some polishing to make it sound pro.

Pensacolaaudiofreak - thanks for the feedback. It was recorded to PC via Cubase SX3.

uncle_jerr - again thanks for you comments. When you say "Could use some polishing to make it sound pro" could you expand on what you mean so that I can see if I can improve it?

The mix really is pretty good. It's hard to put my finger on what I'd change. I think the overall mix needs a bit more low end. The vocals are very up front, which is fine, but I think they cut through a little too much on the mids. Otherwise, I think the balance is good. Nothing is muddy or hidden. It's a quality mix, it just needs a good mastering engineer's touch, IMO.

Good work.

That's a really decent mix. There are some things you can do even in the mixing to make it sound more "studio".
First of all everything sounds good, so you are really good at recording things. Also you have a great perspective of room and I believe there is no problem at all with your low frequencies management. What I would try out would be small changes. Why don't you try these and let us see the result:

1) +2db in the higher frequencies of your acoustic guitar tracks
2) a very simple/short/slight reverb in hihats so it can "sell" more space
3) cut the very low frequencies from the solo/melody guitar (I think this will work really well although the difference will not be auditable untill you mix again everything down)
4) Give a slight boost to the high frequencies of the vocals and you can also experiment more with the room treatment of the backing vocals (doubling the tracks and panning at -70% and +70% might work nice)

And final step : try to put also an imager or widener in your mastering session..

These are really small changes, you dont need to do anything drastic when you have a nice warm mix like yours. You are one step from something great and I can say that you have it, if you know what I mean. Great work.

All these are personal opinions of mixing, never forget that whatever sounds good to you ,it IS good!


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