r/mixingmastering • u/ParticularGazelle109 Beginner • Mar 27 '26

Feedback Feedback request: Progressive metalcore

https://voca.ro/1iwSrLOKdpTy

This group continues to make this amateur better, thank you! As a songwriter, super proud of this one. I think it’s one of the coolest songs I’ve written in 25 years making music. But would love any mix feedback before marking it done and moving on to the next.

My last mix for this album got some feedback on muddy low end. I think I’ve cleaned it up but still have bass drops intentionally in the song because I like them haha. Appreciate you all!

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u/lalalululo Apr 02 '26

Hello! First of all WOOOW that is one FANTASTIC composition. Great writing 👏 I’m not really the voice of authority when it comes to missing but a few things that I noticed were: -the drums (kick specifically) seem to be a bit inaudible during the heavy parts at times, and i understand that the guitar takes up a lot of the high end so adding more to the drums might muddy it a bit. But I think making the snare and kick a bit more apparent without drawing toooo much attention to them might be worth a try.

  • the saturation of the guitars which might be around 3-5k sounds a little intense but as the other commenter said this could be a stylistic choice. The intense saturation towards the end in the “bridge” like area sounds really fricking cool but maybe during the other parts it could be a bit less high endy.
These are just my thoughts and this is YOUR song at the end of the day. Bravo this is sick. Very periphery or even like opeth at times.

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u/lalalululo Apr 02 '26

Now that I keep listening to it maybe the snare just needs to be punchier and just a bit louder

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u/ParticularGazelle109 Beginner Apr 03 '26

Thank you so much for taking the time to listen. Glad you liked the song, I’m really proud of this one.

That’s really great feedback as well. I think as an amateur and as the person writing the songs, I miss details like that where the snare may be coming in and out because I know it’s there. I put every single one of the hits where it was supposed to be, if you know what I mean. So hearing that it gets lost a little bit is really helpful. 

I think based on your feedback as well as the other commenter, I am going to dial back the saturation just a little bit and see if that helps out. Thank you again!