i did not want to continue doing class work in Reaper, Though its challenging but i used logic during the final weeks to get a better understanding of it and to use an industry standard DAW, so with that out of the way, here are the details about my mix
Reference songs : Lowell – Palm Trees & Barbie Girl…
i have to say i have little knowledge about this genre started out from the drums and working my way to the Vocals. i tried to work on the vocals and make them sound better because the singer was struggling to hit some notes, i changed some tracks to stereo inorder to be able to spread them
i lowered the sound of the flute because i it had alot of delay in it and it was affecting other instruments in my mix.
as for the Vocals : (2nd screenshot shows the FX for the vocals)
i chopped the vocals because everytime he took a breath there was the noise of him closing his lips and it always threw me off.
i always go for the natural sound but for this one i had to add more colors because the natural sound was not enough to make it sound ok…
mp3 Link : https://picosong.com/wNDMY/

Here are the FXs used for the stems
( Q6 is the EQ that i used for the vocals)

This is some pretty interesting work. Definitely have to deal with the breaths and lip-smacking, Good. The vocal sound is a good idea. It’s certainly better than what you were given. I think you should consider automating or riding the EQ. At the least, when he goes low, you need to lower the cutoff for the hi-pass filter.
Learning Logic won’t hurt. In my career, I’ve used half a dozen different DAWs each for long periods of time before having to switch for one reason or another. In ten years, it will all be very different anyway. We have to learn to adapt.
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