Hey everyone, I hope you've all been doing well! I've been really busy with all things music except for mixing since the start of the year and haven't been able to keep up with this as much as I should. I realized it had been probably 4-5 months since I last mixed something, so I decided to jump back in here and do a refresher. This was a challenging track to get back into.

I wanted to keep it sounding organic as possible, with natural sounding tones and minimal FX/trickery. I also challenged myself to use all the microphones for the mix, which I did except for the acoustic mic (too much bleed and I think the other instruments were louder than the guitar itself). You couldn't really hit anything too hard with compression or you'd start bring up the other instruments due to all the bleed, so finding a balance between the two was tough. The drums weren't the best sounding either, the kick had a major beach ball tone to it and the snare was a bit flat. That being said, the guitars sounded great, the horns were awesome and you got a really good vocal performance to work with, so I tried to get those elements sounding as good as possible.

https://soundcloud.com/user-519015469/eyes/s-xFLeJTvqhfj?si=7506e61df7cb441d9bb8c174ecdc070e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Definitely struggled a bit due to the layoff, took me longer than usual to do the mix and a lot of my instincts about what to use for certain instruments/tracks were off. If I could do it over, I'd probably try to get a bit more surgical with the drums to see if they could be salvaged and work out the bass a bit more. Thanks for listening! I'm going to try to do at least one mix a month so I don't get rusty again.