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Mix feedback for indie folk song
Hi guys! I’m in the middle of working on this mix, but I’m stuck on the vocals. My goal for this mix is to embrace to bleed from the room sound and make everything feel intimate and “natural”. I had this in mind when engineering the session (live full band), but I feel like the vocals still don’t feel warm and intimate enough. I’m trying not to add too many noticeable effects either, but if you have any suggestions, be my guest.
My reference mix has been “Fireman” by Katy Kirby, and I really love Blake Mills’s production, especially on his self-titled album.
Looking forward to learning how to achieve this type of mix. Thank you!!
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Cammy! This is such a gem of a song and performance, and love the recording too, nice work!
I listened to your references and I think you are spot on in the sounds and production, and I don’t think it would take much work to get the vocal and rest of mix sounding like those refs. If you feel like DM’ing me a lead vocal stem and an instrumental stem (w the bgvs in it too) maybe I can crank out a quick vid for you and the MP fam here on how I would get it there.
Mostly just taming a bit of low-mid “honk” in the voc with some multiband compression, then some voc wide-band compression, a healthy dose of silky top end (neve, pultec, NTI/maag are a few favs). Then a healthy dose of gentle limiting across the whole mix to get it loud and competitive, without wrecking the natural vibes, just like the refs.
Side Note: at 2:04 there’s a weird pitch rub going on in the band (maybe a tom ringing strangely against the chord being played by the band? Not sure, but maybe you’ll hear it).
Great work on this, Cammy! Is this you singing and/or playing as well?
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Thank you so much Dana! Yeah, it’s me singing and playing as well. I would be so so grateful if you did a walkthrough video! I will send you the stems.
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Hi Cammy!
Nice to E-meet you!
I Iove this song! Sounds wonderful! It’s so refreshing to hear a band playing in a room, too! Nice!
I’m excited to watch Dana’s video too and see what he does!
Congrats on this great song!
Best,
Jesse
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Nice to E-meet you too! And thank you so much that’s so nice to hear!
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