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Originally Posted by Hope209 I scoured the internet for months and now I have my room treated with 7 Realtraps and my monitors have been properly aligned. |
Room acoustics is very important, but that's not your problem, I can tell that from listening to your mix. It's not about your monitors either. It's REALLY not in the dithering either.
You know it's a combination of things. If you want me to point on where your focus should be to solve this problem I can tell you that. I already told you the importance of efficient consumption of the sound field. That is a big layer on top of each process, so for you it might feel a little advanced right now. I'll simplify it so that you can more easily target the biggest problem here.
Your biggest problem is in the tracking phase. Completely skip the Yamaha Motif for the acoustic sounds, with your gear it is REALLY "expensive" to track acoustic tracks with that keyboard, I think you can't afford it! Secondly, focus on how to capture an instrument most efficiently. I already recommended m/s miking and I do it again. M/s miking will take your mixes to the next level. Don't underestimate the importance of pre-processing in the tracking phase.
From listening to your mix I notice that this kind of material needs a very professional mastering engineer, don't underestimate how much a really good mastering engineer could transform the quality of your song. For a professional this kind of mixing material is not very unusual in terms of sound quality. You know, not everybody out there have perfect gear when they record and mix, but somehow they still make good sounding hits... Put in the hands of the wrong mastering engineer it will become loud and bad sounding. You should really think about taking your stuff to another mastering engineer, that knows how to deal with a sound field like this. Either he knows how to deal with this or he doesn't, but don't underestimate the potential...
I have to go to the studio right now... I hope I have given some new insight into your "problem". I think this phase is very good for you as a recording engineer. I think it will result in a big step forward for you!
