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Old 6th July 2009   #51
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The mix sounds great listening on laptop speakers. Snare in my opinion is a little too far forward for this kind of band, but it adds a lot of punch and excitement so it makes sense, just a personal preference. For a single its cool but if there was a whole record like this it might get a touch tiring. I always end up mixing drums too upfront and later it starts bothering me. I feel like its an ITB thing. Since ITB compression isn't as solid and you don't have the same type of saturation you end up not having the drums as in place and just turning them up and smashing them down on your mix buss. Its a cool sound but sometimes drums end up too far forward and in some listening environments its a little tiring. For me personally its something I'm trying to work on.

You listen to a CLA or AW mix and the drums are so in your face but not super loud. There's still tons of depth and definition in all the other instruments and the drums are in the mix, not on top, but still totally clear and punchy. With ITB mixes it always seems like you have to mix the drums a little louder to have the same type of clarity, resulting in a mix that doesn't have the same type of depth. It has tons of punch though.

Not knocking the mix at all. I think its great.

As far as hot levels without a limiter its easy.. Just let the mix clip the master fader. As long as the mix is good and the clipping is only taking off the front end of the drums you wont hear the clipping. It'll also even out the drums making every hit more even. It gets nasty if it starts clipping sustained instruments.

Digital limiters are worthless.
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