White Zombie La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One Remastered HQ

Great sounding album, but I always felt it just sounded a bit flat. By that I mean the center of the mix, specifically the kick, snare and main vocals, just stuck out too far in a spatial sense so the rest of the mix was forced to take a back seat. It never enveloped the listener and almost had a bit of a "mono" quality to it. I mean, it sounds great, and has lots of fun panning and stereo effects, but just never really gelled, like it gave up cohesion for punch. Totally valid decision on Andy Wallace's part, as he's a fantastic mixer, but It never sat right with my ears.
So what I did here was try to keep the butt-kicking punch, but also up the spatial factors a bit. Compression was crazy small, a bit on the lows to bring out Sean's bass because its so important, and a bit on the high mids to tame the crazy samples and bring Rob's vocals more "into" the mix rather than on top of it. 3b or less on each of those bands with a stiff ratio. just to slap them around a tiny, tiny bit.
The real work can in the form of a bit of mid/side processing. I upped the sides of the mix (post the aforementioned super tiny bit of compression and EQ) by 0.4db along with 0.5db of long, slow, low ratio compression. It may seem like too small an amount to do anything, but if you compare this version to the original, you can hear how it really helped the balance out to feel like a fuller mix, especially in headphones.
I did do a bit of EQ to modernize it in that regard, but not much, a little bottom octave and some taming of the upper mids to even them out, and bring them in line with the mids. Also, just a touch of limiting to catch peaks, but nothing more than that.
I think I succeeded in keeping the punch but bringing out the sides of the mix. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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