anaesthesiac
New member
Back to the drawing board it is..
I've spent a lot of time with electronic music and a lot can be accomplished with a bare sample and a bit of work, but it's not working here.
The music is not the issue, the songs themselves have a good energy & feel, the vocals need to be disregarded as they're more for reference than anything [a bad reference].
My gear is not an issue either, i use basic stuff but it's all quality, the thing that gets me is that it sounds good before i put it all together. On it's own the guitar snarls, the bass is fat and full of presence, the drums... i'm having issues with though [obviously]. I use a combination of a Roland TD-4KX & FL Studio Sequencer to lay my drums down [mainly because i live in a residential area and can't play my proper kit], and no matter what i try they don't sit right which makes me fuck with other sounds and ruin everything. My guitar is a Les Paul Standard with an EHx Big Muff, ProCo Turbo Rat & Boss Metal Zone as distortion through a clean Fender Frontman 212R, My bass is a Yamaha RBX 370 run through a Tech21 Bass Driver DI straight into a Tascam US1641 into Cubase 5 with Waves/OXford/T-Racks. My mics are a combination of Shure SM57, SM58, Rode NT1a & M3 and a Heil PR30. It's basic gear but surely i should be able to get something half decent out of it?
What i notice about some of the music bashed/linked to on this site, the mixes sound tight, but the music itself is bland, i can hear a kick, i can hear a bass, i can differentiate layers, the playing is technically good... BUT it's boring. I'm not ragging on anyones music, moreso saying that with a straight forward set of layers i could mix like some of them too, but what i've got is a lot of everything going on all at once and in a way that's how i want it, but i want it to sit right too. Do i sacrifice something to get it to sit right, or go with what i want and keep battling on [even if it's pointless]?
Regardless, i'm going to record from scratch and post up a barebones straightforward mix with no EQ, no Compression, just the instruments as they sound recorded and look for an opinion here. Maybe what sounds decent to my ears [in it's natural state that is] is just not going to work... who knows.
Thanks for all the criticism, suggestions and advice so far. I sincerely appreciate it, even though i feel like i've aged ten fucking years in two weeks, Ha!
I've spent a lot of time with electronic music and a lot can be accomplished with a bare sample and a bit of work, but it's not working here.
The music is not the issue, the songs themselves have a good energy & feel, the vocals need to be disregarded as they're more for reference than anything [a bad reference].
My gear is not an issue either, i use basic stuff but it's all quality, the thing that gets me is that it sounds good before i put it all together. On it's own the guitar snarls, the bass is fat and full of presence, the drums... i'm having issues with though [obviously]. I use a combination of a Roland TD-4KX & FL Studio Sequencer to lay my drums down [mainly because i live in a residential area and can't play my proper kit], and no matter what i try they don't sit right which makes me fuck with other sounds and ruin everything. My guitar is a Les Paul Standard with an EHx Big Muff, ProCo Turbo Rat & Boss Metal Zone as distortion through a clean Fender Frontman 212R, My bass is a Yamaha RBX 370 run through a Tech21 Bass Driver DI straight into a Tascam US1641 into Cubase 5 with Waves/OXford/T-Racks. My mics are a combination of Shure SM57, SM58, Rode NT1a & M3 and a Heil PR30. It's basic gear but surely i should be able to get something half decent out of it?
What i notice about some of the music bashed/linked to on this site, the mixes sound tight, but the music itself is bland, i can hear a kick, i can hear a bass, i can differentiate layers, the playing is technically good... BUT it's boring. I'm not ragging on anyones music, moreso saying that with a straight forward set of layers i could mix like some of them too, but what i've got is a lot of everything going on all at once and in a way that's how i want it, but i want it to sit right too. Do i sacrifice something to get it to sit right, or go with what i want and keep battling on [even if it's pointless]?
Regardless, i'm going to record from scratch and post up a barebones straightforward mix with no EQ, no Compression, just the instruments as they sound recorded and look for an opinion here. Maybe what sounds decent to my ears [in it's natural state that is] is just not going to work... who knows.
Thanks for all the criticism, suggestions and advice so far. I sincerely appreciate it, even though i feel like i've aged ten fucking years in two weeks, Ha!
. All i know is the kick's "punch" seems to be around the 125hz range according to the spectrum/EQ analyser.