Mix Analysis #10

Mix Analysis #10

Shake it out- Florence + The Machine

0:00-0:38 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth

0:38-1:14 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

1:14-1:31 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

1:31-1:49 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Drums, Tambourine

1:49-2:07 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

2:07-2:27 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

2:27-2:34 – Backing Vocals, Drums

2:34-3:10 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums

3:10-3:46 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

3:46-4:04 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth, Drums, Tambourine

4:04-4:21 – Vocals, Backing Vocals, Organ, Synth

4:21-4:35 – Synth Fade out

Instrument	Pan	Level
Vocals	(Positive) 5	-3
Backing Vocals	+3/-4	-5
Organ	(Positive) 7	-6
Synth	-8/+9	-8
Drums	-4/+5	-4
Tambourine	-6	-5

The song is in 4/4 meter.

Just by looking at the number of instruments heard in the song, and the order that they go in, it seems that there is very little deviance at all, but in the context of the song, there is major chances. The first thing that I noticed about the song is there aren't the usual instruments in there, no guitar, or bass. I found that very cool, and interesting. When the song first starts, it starts with a nice rich organ, and these very airy vocals, then nice backing vocals. Then comes in a booming drum kit. Since there isn't a lot of instruments in the song, and some are electronic, there is a lot of space to fill in the song. The song is mostly Vocals, Organ, and Drums. The Organ doesn't seem to have any sort of reverb or anything on it, maybe a little bit of compression, and EQ. The vocals on the other hand are booming and very airy. There is a lot of reverb, some compression, and some EQ. The backing vocals seem to have a little more reverb on them than the main vocals, but they do fill out the sound nicely with what they have. The drums have a lot to them. There is compression, reverb on the snare and toms, and EQ, and the symbols just seem to cut through all that and get a crisp crash in the song when they are hit. There is a tambourine in the song that play almost throughout the whole song, it add to the drums and give the song more character.