Hello everyone, I hope you're all well today !

I decided to remix Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) track.

I spent the whole morning very carefully cleaning the tracks one by one in Izotope RX to remove as much as possible the little background noises etc... but preserving as carefully as possible all the musical beauty of the recordings...

After cleaning up all these tracks, I mixed them as carefully as possible to bring out the full musical intensity of this track.

My vision for the remix of this track was to remain extremely respectful of the work that had been done and not to distort the artistic expression of the artists who performed and the sound engineers who did the recordings. So I was very subtle in my work and very meticulous.

I loved remixing this masterpiece and wanted to share it with you, so I hope you'll enjoy listening to it. In any case, I spent an exceptional day remixing this track...

Don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have, I'd be delighted to answer them! I'd also be delighted to hear your feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPr...w?usp=drivesdk

Have a nice day

Can't listen, can only d-load...sorry.

I'm not a professional mixer. Listened on headphones:
For my taste there is too much emphasis on the transients:
The clicky conga's attract my attention, the bright guitar also and piano also. Harsh sax solo.
I miss the warmth and a bit of the depth of the original.
I prefer to hear the tone of the sustained notes of the instruments.
The bass should be heard better.
The strings and backing vocals sound nice.
The last theremin-like sound is too loud.

This album to me sounds like wood, f.i. like many jazz albums do.
Piano, conga's, jazz bass.
That sound is overshadowed a bit here.

Regards.

Did you use stem separation to later remix the stems?

Hello, and thank you very much for your very detailed feedback

I posted this mix just after I'd "finished" it and that was a bad thing because yes indeed when I opened it this morning, I found many faults with it.

However, with all due respect to the original work, I think the original mix is too dark, even though it's very much in keeping with the artistic direction....

I really wanted to bring much more clarity, much more detail and transients to the mix to give it more lightness.

I totally understand the Woody feel you particularly appreciate in the original mix.

The piano brings at least 50% of the transience and brilliance to the mix, allowing it to breathe. By the way, I've done very little EQ on most of the tracks (there must be a total of 10 EQ points at most on the 15 tracks, and they're very light)

In fact, when I opened the mix this morning I found that the conga was particularly loud, so I turned it down by 10dB

The saxophone was also far too loud, even though I liked the solo, it's true that it was too loud, so I turned it down by 6dB.

As for the bass, I wanted to keep it very light, but I raised it very slightly.

the end vocal is way too loud, you're right so I lowered it too.

what do you mean by "overshadowed"?

These are the original takes no IA separation

Sincerely,

Louis

My overriding thought on your mix is that it lacks clarity, is pretty muddy, boxy and flat and you might want to take another listen and revisit your reverb settings.

Maybe take a listen to the original mix as a reference.

It is just another way of saying what I mentioned earlier. The higher frequencies attract my attention instead of the rest of the sound.
Good that you continue to work on it.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the original version... It seems to me that it's a full remix that was done fairly recently, by Steve Smith in 2001 (The detroit Mix, I don't really like this mix.....) I relied on the original mix that was released in 1971.

I found it quite curious that you mention that my mix sounds too boxy and I agree with you, it lacks clarity BUT apartment dog seems to emphasize just the opposite! If I understand correctly, apartment dog finds too many high frequencies and you find that there's not enough

I think I need to do a new full balance of the mix!

I'll do that today and send you a new version if you're still interested in following this remix

Thanks for your opinions, which help me rediscover this masterpiece!

If you post a new version, I'll listen to it and comment

Hello !

I took the time to rest my ears for 24 hours... I went back to my session and finally, the work turned out to be harder than expected haha!
It was hard to find a balance, particularly on this mix, because of the wide variations in dynamics on the legato elements in particular.

But I loved doing it.

Here's the new version, clearer, less dynamic to keep the sound soft.

What do you think of it?

By the way, I'm only 18, but I'd really like to learn! I'm trying to improve a little every day and your feedback helps me a lot, so thank you for your time

Warmly, Louis

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H32...ew?usp=sharing

Thanks for your feedback

I've posted a new version.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H32...ew?usp=sharing

Maybe to much drums (transients) and to much guitar
I have a really hard time making “light” mixes.
It's a typical 1960s-80s sound, my mixes sound too overloaded and I can't get them to “breathe”.

I don't know how to explain it...