Anders Erisian
XLIII
Hey all, haven't posted much around here, but have had a few good reads, learnt a few things and picked up a few ideas since i first came across HR last year, as well as had the chance to hear a few interesting tunes from members here so thanks to all who may have contributed to that.
I came up with this rough mix tonight, had a listen on a couple of systems and i've think i've got some reasonable semblance of real world translation for what it is. Which is the reason for me posting more than anything else. I've got a totally untreated recording & monitoring environment, and lacking any quality monitoring - i rely on referencing mixes across a few systems, car, headphones, some nice european hi fi gear. Anyway i know it's the long way round to try and mix anything - a lot of trial and error, hit and miss, but the challenge has got to be a learning experience. I do a bit of live-sound work too so any ear training is good for me right now. So if anyone has the ears or inclination to listen, just interested to hear any opinions on what you hear, mostly with regard to the obvious deficiencies in my monitoring. Total Fail?
As far as the performance goes it's just multi tracked one take improv's over a cobbled together drum track with no real direction all slapped together in a couple of hours, pretty sloppy, a riffy musical interlude more than a song,but feel free to rip into me over that if you want..I did record a vocal, sort of gave the piece some meaning, but i canned it, it was a bit crude. Not really after a talent or songwriting critique, i know where i stand on that now.
As far as mixing goes some quick leveling and panning, some generic reverb, a touch of comp on the drums, some stupid autopanning effect at a couple of points for some extra cheese, probably too much gain on the 'mastering limiter' for some defence in the ongoing 'war', not much turd-polishing before the final mangle to mp3 for soundclod. Guitars(cheap korean strat-clone) and bass(dean metalmanML passive LOL!) all di'd, guitars through a nasty amp modelling fx unit so tone is all 'meh' - i know. All tracked and mixed in FLStudio8, 16/44.1, on an ancient core 2 Duo win7 2gig ram. Behr xenyx302 front end. Total bottom end rig
If the source quality makes any evaluation impossible to make, i can understand that too. I live in a cabin sort of in the sticks - 18'x24'x8' mostly corrugated iron and glass, full of furniture and instruments, so there's not a lot i can do about the environment til i move from here, and acquire some more worthy gear at that point. Thanks for any input, greatly appreciated, even if it is a flaming for blaspheming against art, i could well need that too 
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I came up with this rough mix tonight, had a listen on a couple of systems and i've think i've got some reasonable semblance of real world translation for what it is. Which is the reason for me posting more than anything else. I've got a totally untreated recording & monitoring environment, and lacking any quality monitoring - i rely on referencing mixes across a few systems, car, headphones, some nice european hi fi gear. Anyway i know it's the long way round to try and mix anything - a lot of trial and error, hit and miss, but the challenge has got to be a learning experience. I do a bit of live-sound work too so any ear training is good for me right now. So if anyone has the ears or inclination to listen, just interested to hear any opinions on what you hear, mostly with regard to the obvious deficiencies in my monitoring. Total Fail?
As far as the performance goes it's just multi tracked one take improv's over a cobbled together drum track with no real direction all slapped together in a couple of hours, pretty sloppy, a riffy musical interlude more than a song,but feel free to rip into me over that if you want..I did record a vocal, sort of gave the piece some meaning, but i canned it, it was a bit crude. Not really after a talent or songwriting critique, i know where i stand on that now.
As far as mixing goes some quick leveling and panning, some generic reverb, a touch of comp on the drums, some stupid autopanning effect at a couple of points for some extra cheese, probably too much gain on the 'mastering limiter' for some defence in the ongoing 'war', not much turd-polishing before the final mangle to mp3 for soundclod. Guitars(cheap korean strat-clone) and bass(dean metalmanML passive LOL!) all di'd, guitars through a nasty amp modelling fx unit so tone is all 'meh' - i know. All tracked and mixed in FLStudio8, 16/44.1, on an ancient core 2 Duo win7 2gig ram. Behr xenyx302 front end. Total bottom end rig
If the source quality makes any evaluation impossible to make, i can understand that too. I live in a cabin sort of in the sticks - 18'x24'x8' mostly corrugated iron and glass, full of furniture and instruments, so there's not a lot i can do about the environment til i move from here, and acquire some more worthy gear at that point. Thanks for any input, greatly appreciated, even if it is a flaming for blaspheming against art, i could well need that too .