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  • My name is Steven Roessner. I'm a professor at the University of Rochester in the audio music engineering department

  • I am also a Grammy Award winning engineer

  • and I

  • mix and master and record

  • For I've been doing it for probably too long

  • But I enjoy it. I enjoy it. I love it

  • it's very top-heavy and

  • By that I mean there's a lot of high frequency content both guitars vocals the kick drum even is very clicky

  • There's not a lot of like bottom ends to the mix like it's there. It's present

  • But to me it's just this sounds like after

  • You know five six songs my ears are started going to be fatigued because they're being assaulted with high frequency content

  • All the time, but then again, that's a trait of this particular. Type of music

  • This is a very wide mix

  • Almost to the point where I feel like there might be some stuff, that's a little out of phase

  • But it's not necessarily bad. It just seems like I have sounds that are outside the boundaries of the speakers and the stereo mix

  • Vocals are just too loud. I think it's a combination of the EQ

  • They're so forward that the rest of the band is kind of like

  • Set back in the mix

  • I like the song. I like the production the arrangement is really cool the way it goes from like really loud the chorus

  • and then this

  • electronic kind of versus

  • I Just think mixing

  • could be a little more balanced

  • I Can hear everything clearly vocals sound great. I like the horn arrangements

  • And their placement I get here to the guitar and then

  • in the intro of the bass guitar doing the slap

  • There's particular notes in that part where I feel like I don't know if I really like that because they pop out and they almost

  • interfere with the vocals

  • It's an interesting part, interesting sound, but it might be just a little too much

  • It's a lot going on

  • Its well mixed for what's going on

  • In general when you're working with electronic songs or electronic

  • samples, it's a little easier to mix because

  • The sounds already pretty much set for you

  • It shows up with the samples on the kick and snare and the synth stuff

  • You're adding delays you're adding reverbs

  • To make it more interesting or different than the stock sample

  • This is a very playful mix, I'm getting lost in it which is a good thing

  • There's a lot going on a lot to take apart. It's kind of fun to listen to

  • Something I've noticed in all these songs so far. Is that pretty much anything rhythmic is right in the center

  • Anything harmonic is way outside like guitars even like the guitars are also providing rhythm here, but they're mainly a harmonic instrument

  • way outside delays and things

  • Going every which way, but like kick, snare, everything's just always tight center.

  • I Like that there's a slight back echo on the du du du du, it's very subtle, but very nice, very well done

  • I'm lost. It's like a musical salad

  • I'm going to go ahead and agree with the YouTube commenters

  • that this might not have been their best foot to start off on only because

  • It's like they're throwing in everything to see what sticks

  • and production-wise

  • The engineer... that's a challenge to make this all fit

  • That was interesting what they did with the voice there, pitch shift up

  • Not bad, might wanna try that on something I'm doing right now actually

  • Seems pretty muddy

  • And by that I mean there's a lot of

  • Mid-range, that's just like

  • fighting for attention

  • So there's not a lot of clarity in this mix. It's all very

  • Jumbled together. I can hear the vocals I hear things

  • but they're all

  • occupying the same space

  • Vocals sound great right here, and the depth of field is very nice

  • So the layers, the instruments, I can hear the stage

  • kind of this way as opposed to just this way, I can hear this way and this way

  • And it's very creatively mixed as far as like the vocals are center, and then on this chorus part

  • They go wide and they're doubled

  • There's a lot to listen to it's a really dynamic mix as far as like

  • Stuff going on, everything is very clear everything's very nice

  • Balanced it's not top heavy. It's not bottom. You know light. It's very

  • Very well done

  • I Kind of enjoy that that high hat almost like woodpeckery kind of thing that's going on.

  • Yeah, it's it's a very It's it's a different take on that sound

  • Usually it's a very

  • Sharp thing and this has a little more reverb and a little more depth to it

  • So I kind of enjoy that most of the time when you hear that. It's very

  • precise and this kind of like fills in a little bit better

  • Yeah, right here it seems like

  • Something things come in that's like it becomes unbalanced to a point where it's like oh this is kind of distracting

  • I Enjoy that they're not using traditional

  • Samples, that we've heard through the other songs like I haven't heard really a sample that I've already heard before

  • This is a very good mix so I

  • I Feel like because I liked the mix of BLΛƆKPIИK and I like the mix of this

  • whoever is heading this production,

  • at this entertainment group knows... Knows what should be done

  • I have a gut feelings that whoever decides like this song can be released they have a good ear

My name is Steven Roessner. I'm a professor at the University of Rochester in the audio music engineering department

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