Anyway that i can mix my songs to sound like this album?

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lately i've been wanting to make my mixes sound like caroliner rainbow in general (this album is one of the examples). it's lo-fi but high quality, heavily low-passed but still sounds the same, it's a sound that i've been striving for in my drafts. they experiment with different panning, types of fidelity, etc.

what can i do to sound like these guys?

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    So my first impression with this here is woahg, that's some out-there choices in, well, everything about this first song, BUT it's fairly straightforward as best I can tell.

    A lot of this is either extremely highpassed, lowpassed, or bandpassed, and panned left and right in fairly extreme measures. Some of it also sounds like it's been stereo split weirdly, which gives it that kinda "wide but not clean" feel. Everything seems extremely compressed together by what is probably a multiband compressor at the end of the whole chain.

    The thing that's giving me a headache is that there's so much noise going on in the right ear, the left side has a lot less going on, so there's also clearly a panning bias going on, which does help the vocals stick out a lot more than they would were this monophonic, they in specific seem highpassed only a bit and then compressed with a multiband. There's also just a lot going on in general, high amounts of noise.

    Another thing they're doing is, by having the entire thing compressed, by changing the gain of a specific sound, you end up changing the entire sound while everything stays about the same loudness, in specific at 28:48, you'll notice the weird groaning overwhelming everything else, so if you slam everything together like that, you can generally have a specific thing overwhelm every other sound in that very messy way.

    So, to recap; Lots of Hi/Lo/Bandpassing, eclectic left and right panning choices that give a weird clarity to some things, stereo splitting, and very strong, brickwalled, multiband compression that makes everything messy at the end

    Edit: wall of text ew