Originally Posted by WaoBand
It sounds like the song has great potential - I like the way it drifts along - but so far it's a poor mix. I agree with Firesong that it's impossible to hear the lyrics, but although it's personal taste I think you've gone OTT on the effects: the drums sound just too loud and clumsy - I think they'd sound better natural - but overall there's too much distortion on everything, leaving a muddy sound overall. Generally, it lack clarity.
Thanks for the observations.
As listed above - there aren't many effects and the most heavily used in reverb on the backing vocals.
There's only a little compression on the drums & some EQ do de-click the kick.
There's no distortion on anything but it's possible that you hear crunch from the gentle limiter on the mix buss &/or whatever Soundcloud did.
I removed the limiter on the follow up mix but had to reduce the overall level by 3 dB to get a red free signal.
Have a listen to the 2nd mix if you get a chance.
Thanks.

Cheers
rayc
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