Boom Bap Chronicles: Return to Queensbridge

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Dope remix, lol at the Taxi Driver interlude, dope.

I think the kick and snare could hit quite a bit harder, and an open hat would work well IMO. Id beef up the kick with an eq boost around 60 hz, or layer another kick if the original doesnt have any information in the 60 hz range to boost.
Are you sidechaining a compressor on your bass channel to your kick?
If you arent yet using clipping, now is the time to begin. Clip your individual drum sounds a small amount, clip your drum bus a small amount, then by the time you get to the master bus, clip just before your final limiter. If you do this then you will be able to push things a lot louder before squashing your mix to hell, or making it distort, or pumping.
This is how I get loud punchy and hard hitting drums, and using the same technique on any instrument with peaky transients, you can push things a lot further before combined transients start to peak your level. Just trim enough using the clipper that it sounds as loud, without actually being as loud, because you have trimmed the top off, doing this along every channel can really help in getting a loud final master. Clipping in many small stages rather than leaving all the work for one clipper or the final limiter is what will make a transparent loud master. Leaving all the work for one limiter on the master bus will make you wonder why your mixes arent as loud as others at the same LUFS, and they distort when you try to get them commercially loud, or they pump or the dynamics just falls apart and you lose the transients altogether. The ultimate goal to keep in mind when clipping is to give your final limiter as little work to do as possible. I can often get to -9db LUFS before I even engage the limiter.
 
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Thanks @DJ Excellence and @2GooD Productions.

@2GooD Productions, yeah agree on that with the kick, just loaded it back up and messed with the kick EQ, much more punchy!
Had an open hat there in my kit layout but didn’t lay it down, will keep that in mind.

Dope ear on you 2good, I do side chain, checked again now it’s on the kick but I fucking left it off the bass for fuck sake so sidechained fuck all haha!

Thanks man, excellent feedback and mixing tips, many thanks.
 

hosie

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This is dope. Mix is dope, drums are dope, interlude is dope. Vocals hit perfect and mixed nicely. Cut the interlude in and out smooth as butter. The only thing I didn't like in the entire track was the "start spreading the news" vocal chop at the start, sounded off and out of place. No need for it either.

Oh and the video is dope too. You don't do anything by half!
 
@hosie, thanks so much for the comments man, really appreciated!
With the Sinatra part it was because I was keeping it New York themed same as with Taxi Driver but yeah man I get that it can feel off to the lyrical content.

My mind pieces strange things together sometimes haha.
Thanks again man!
 
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