Pete Laramee Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 (edited) Mixing a new song. Having trouble matching levels for guitar melodies/solos and keyboard melodies/solos. Sound different on my monitors, headphones, and my car stereo. Any thoughts? https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15050372 Edited July 9 by Pete Laramee content 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Walsh Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Great piece! It sounds pretty well balanced on my ancient Rokit 5's. Just for fun I checked it with my Slate VSX system phones on Mike Dean's Car, Electric Car and SUV sims as well as several studio sims. My preferences tend toward a somewhat warmer, vintage-ish mix, but my poor, abused hears like this one just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Smithe Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Really cool track, well played. Overall, well balanced, I guess what you're getting at is the guitar is hot and in your face, and the keyboards not so much. I imagine your guitar is mono, and your keyboards are stereo. If that's the case, maybe try splitting your keyboard into two mono tracks, and hardpan them right and left. That would keep some spaciousness, but would probably push them upfront a little bit more and add some edge. You could try saturating the keyboard signal a little bit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Laramee Posted July 10 Author Share Posted July 10 Thanks for listening and thanks for the suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Wilby Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 I think the wah-wah lead guitar is a tad loud but other than that, sounds great 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry T. Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Great writing, playing, production. You'll get the hang of getting the instrument levels set better as you do more mixing. Keep it simple. If the keyboards volume is too low at certain parts, well, raise them up and lower the problem instrument(s) volume(s). There are no short cuts. It takes a lot of listening to get all the levels set as optimal as possible and that's done on a note by note or section by section, basis 🎶 🎵 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesha Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 On 7/9/2025 at 10:29 AM, Pete Laramee said: Mixing a new song. Having trouble matching levels for guitar melodies/solos and keyboard melodies/solos. Sound different on my monitors, headphones, and my car stereo. Any thoughts? https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15050372 Yeah its true things sound different played on different things. I just try to be balanced best I can. Car stereo probably the most restrictive to go by. I use Izotope tonal balance control to get a look at how parts are measuring up. Lots of good stuff in this one! The guitar really stands out front and thats intended I'm sure and it deserves it, and it does cover up some of the other stuff a bit. Its not way out of balance to me as I listen, sounds guitar driven and heavy as you describe it. You could reduce the guitars a bit, you could use more eqing or something like Track Spacer to give things more of their own space. Excellent playing ! Enjoyed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Laramee Posted July 15 Author Share Posted July 15 Again, thanks for listening and for the replies/suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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