the new way to mix is loud so you don't have to use a limiter to push the loudness back up learning from teezio and Jaycen Joshua but maybe some other genres

 

It has always been, and always will be down to the instruments which need to claim priority in the style/genre/type of tune being mastered and by the person who has the lead on what they make clear needs to be heard above all else. While the natural leaning by everyone is "The drums and vocals of course!", this is not true in every piece of music, only a lot of modern music of specific styles and genres.

The input and guides here are great defaults as a base reference...end of story. IRL, it comes down to the ears and what needs to be prominent as frequencies of a lot of instruments will always have occasional frequency cancellation until dealt to. Having a reference is always good, but it's not set in concrete. That has been pretty much said several times in different ways on this thread. It's true. You work to the requirements of what you have been dealt and what the owner of that requires.

P.S>..I watched an engineer tell the producer the KD needed to be louder and re-EQ'd because the frequencies were not what the engineer thought he knew. For half an hour the producer let him do what he wanted, then said thanks and paid him, then got an entirely different studio to do the entire album. In the words of George Duke (RIP): "He that pays, owns".

 

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