Mixing New Song

[Pete Laramee]

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?

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Edited Wednesday at 06:31 PM by Pete Laramee
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[Kevin Walsh]

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.

[Ross Smithe]

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.

[Pete Laramee]

Thanks for listening and thanks for the suggestions.

[Keith Wilby]

I think the wah-wah lead guitar is a tad loud but other than that, sounds great 👍

[Larry T.]

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 🎶 🎵