[RWP] Mix Opinion, Please?

[colin McDonald]

listening on cheap crappy headphones here, but here are my thoughts:
bring the piano down a bit, perhaps 3DB to start, it seems to distort just a 
bit in parts.
You can use a nice compressor to bring the perceived volume of the piano up 
a bit, while smoothening it and keeping the distortion out.
Kick and bass sounded fairly well mixed....crappy headphones so I didn't get 
a real good idea of weather the bass and kick were distorting here or not.
strings or whatever that was sat very nicely over there on the right side 
just under the piano but well defined in the over all mix.
relative volume was just fine on this machine...it used some auto player in 
firefox for some reason, but the volume was  on par with everything else on 
the machine.
as long as you don't have any clipping or distortion on the tracks, you can 
bring the volume up a whole lot with the master volume in reaper.
Your systems output and speakers and soundcard etc will be the only limiting 
factor there.
Use compression as a tool.  It'll help with perceived loudness and all that 
kind of good stuff.
do you have the ability to separate out all the drums and stuff? IE, kick, 
snare and simbles on separate tracks?
or is that drum pattern a preset midi thing where it's mixed before hand?

Regards
COlin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:46 PM
Subject: [RWP] Mix Opinion, Please?


> I'm learning a little more in Reaper each day, but I'm wondering if I 
> recorded this track too high in level, so the bass and kick distorted, 
> and, if that's so, then why is my overall level so low.
> It sounds right to me when I record it on my off line daw, then I take it 
> over to this online computer and my track is way too low compared to what 
> others are doing.
> I balanced relative levels of the midi tracks, and brought the bass just 
> under hearing distortion on it, and it seems proportionate to the piano 
> and drums, but the track is still too low in level.
> I haven't compress it yet, or used Waves l3 maximizer on it yet, I can't 
> believe those are going to bring its level up 3 or more times in volume, 
> to where it should be.
> This is still a rough mix, I'll remove those  annoying cymbol hits in the 
> second half.
> I want to use this as a basic rhythm part, and leave room for some live 
> sax and flute to take the place of the original vocal, , maybe a shaker, 
> some fun things, and I can hear the girl chorus doing that little Still 
> the Same chorus, I don't have a female singer, I guess I'll have to fake 
> it myself with AutoTune's gender bender. smile.
> Please let me know your thoughts about whether it's recorded too hot in 
> the bass already, and how you yourself get overall levels up higher.
> Thanks,
> Indigo L
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63003631/1Still%20the%20Same.mp3
>
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