Widower
By ViridianLoom on November 6, 2022 8:56 pm
I'm pretty happy with the general direction this song is going but I ran into some trouble when mixing it and I've also had a migraine since I woke up this morning (oof) so I'm running out of energy to keep working on this.
The biggest issue I'm hearing has to do with the drums. I recently got Addictive Drummer and it sounds pretty great when you load it up and throw on any of the drum loops that comes with it, but where I'm running into issues is routing those samples to their own tracks. I followed a tutorial to route everything and I'm getting the signal passed to all the tracks but a little too far into the project I noticed that when I solo the snare and really just listen to it, it lacks a lot of balls. It sounds as if the latch that controls the tension is off or something. Boosting the volume doesn't help and just draws attention to how weak it sounds. It's resonance just sounds kind of pathetic and the sound of the snare dies too quickly in the mix. It doesn't just feel like the problem affects the snare though, everything sounds a little too dry. Addictive Drums has it's own set of tools within the plugin to tailor the sound how you want (compression, EQ, reverb, etc.) but I'm already too deep into the project where I bypassed all that and my migraine worsens at the thought of redoing the drum mix from the beginning right now. I just want to get this submitted and take a nap with an icepack.
It is what it is though. Trying to just remind myself that WB is about challenging yourself to be creative and productive, which I was this week, so getting the song about 80% there is good enough until the year is over and I can (hopefully) come back and give the tune the love and attention it deserves to reach it's full potential. (Also, one more nitpick, but does it sound to anyone else like the guitars/bass might be dragging behind the drums? I'm usually pretty good about playing to a click so I have no idea if I'm suddenly having like an input latency or something.)
The overall vibe I was going for here is supposed to be like this band True Widow . This was actually a first for me where, from the outset, I had an idea and I was more focused on trying to make it sound like the source material from a mix perspective rather than a compositional one. I think that's why I'm hung up on the drums, they boom and snap in there's so much space that reverberates around the music.
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