I'm producing an ep for a friend, and wondering how the mix is sounding to fresh ears. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!! Thanks! https://soundcloud.com/travisgrotbo/go-on-now-first-mix

Bump :-)

Well, it's a first mix. ;)
 
The snare and kick are way out front and should be dropped back into the mix a bit.  Since the drumming is so out front it becomes apparent that there are also some performance issues in the rhythm (and/or possibly some inaccurate clip editing during production?), with kick and snare hits being a little off time and overlapping in a few different places.  Sounds like you may have even left a few spots where there are two drum parts playing simultaneously (and not quite in sync).
 
In general I think you really scooped the low-mid frequencies out of all your bed tracks, which does make plenty of room for the lead vocals, but there's very little "meat" left to the music. The bass sounds like a "sub bass", and the electric rhythm guitar is barely there.  I'd suggest adding back some of those low-mid freqs in the range of 100-1000 Hz.

Thanks!

well, my two cents. I like the vocals and how they sit on top on everything at any given time. I personally do not like the kick too much for it could use more punch, but that is maybe just my personal taste. Anything else - the song, the vibe, the violin, etc is pretty cool! Who is the artist?

I can't get Soundcloud to work....It's a reoccurring problem lately. I'll try again later, sorry.

Thanks speedtom! I'll try to add more punch to the kick. It's my friend Matt, his band is The Hard Arnold Palmers. I've been their bass/fiddle player off and on for a year or so. 

I like the tune - vocals are really nice. The mix though - it needs quite a bit of work - it is really "washed out".

Hi, I would drop the drums back as Walt has suggested, I would bring the guitar up, but the guitar sounds a bit tinny and so you may want to throw some eq on it and possible some panning work on everything, so that nothing is sharing any space or is to close together. The over all song is good as far as songs go, it just needs some tweaking here and there. Vocals are good from what I heard at this end. Great start to something better.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

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Thanks speedtom! I'll try to add more punch to the kick. It's my friend Matt, his band is The Hard Arnold Palmers. I've been their bass/fiddle player off and on for a year or so. 

alright, and thanks for the information! I am looking forward to the final mix, please make sure to post it!