Final Stages Part 3

Open hi-hats - too dull

How?? I was just chopping out a bit of 8-9k to get rid of some of that abrasiveness, then I A/B'd with a bunch of other stuff and found that I'd sucked the life out of them. I have this problem a lot.

Pads too loud - lead too quiet

This was just idiocy on my part. Fixed.

Fills really terrible

Simplified some fills in the busier part of the track to make them sound less...flailing.

Onto mixdown number 3. The reason I keep mixing down like this is so that I lock the track and stop tweaking for a bit, then I run it through L3 in a "mastering" set I can use it to compare with other things.

I always have to go through this process at the moment - hopefully I'll eventually internalise some of this stuff and tracks will start coming out better first time around.