Things all around sounded good. I like the guitar tone. Bass is just a bit boomy. Maybe if you could notch out something around 100hz or so and then raise the level of the track a db or so, it would sit better.
My biggest reaction is the narrowness of the mix. Maybe I'm just used to mixes with fuller parts. Things sound good, just needs more "stuff" on the edges.
What do you do for drums? I thought they sounded pretty good. Kick was awesome. Snare was too.
Vocals sound great.
I was looking at my project earlier, and I had pulled the drum overheads narrower than usual. Listening again, that ride cymbal sounds almost straight up the middle. I'll try giving a few more degrees of separation for the overheads, and move the ride off to the right a bit to get it out of the middle. Maybe that'll help spread things out a bit more?
For drums, I'm using SD2 with the custom & vintage SDX, triggered by a little e-kit. This particular sample kit is a Gretsch Round Badge with a Supraphonic snare. As far as processing, I added Kjearhaus Classic Master Limiter to the kick, snare, and toms at about 40% wet to give them all a little more body. And this time around I tried using the Waves L1 on the drum bus. I'm on the fence as to whether L1 adds anything that simply turning up the fader wouldn't, since I"m not driving it hard enough to really cut off any peaks.
Thanks for the comments, I'll sit and see if I can figure out anything I can do to add stereo interest with such few elements in the mix. And as for my mortal enemy, the bass guitar...I'll try your suggestion and see if I can take some boom out of it while keeping it audible. Mixing in a small-ish room sucks for bass!
Sounds clear to me, everything sits well with me. Maybe a tad less bass, add some delay to the lead in the bridge to make it feel a little bigger? Really nice vocals man.
I'm having a hard time finding things to nitpick tonight, you guys need to do better lol
Thanks man, I appreciate it. Agreed on the lead tone. It sounded great in the room, but withered a little in translation to a mic. I bet that simply turning it up a bit will help it, but there's some component to that tone that isn't sitting 100% well with me. I'll have some time this weekend to fiddle with the Tube Screamer a bit more...I just kind of made some hasty adjustments and worked out the solo, then hit record. I'd probably be best served by taking some time to more carefully adjust things and try it again.
Chances are high that I'll really shit the bed on my next mix, so you'll have plenty of ammo for nitpicking in the future
And thanks to you both for the compliments on the vocals. It's always my weakest point, I have about zero confidence in my singing. I wasn't blessed with strong pitch control. I doubled both vocal parts, which is new for me. But it seems to help a tiny bit to smooth out the occasional pitch issues. But damn, does it ever accentuate timing issues! I was seriously hoarse the morning after doing these vocals, the lead part is well above my limited range, and I had to do a ton of takes to get the timing down. This is actually my first mix in a long time that I didn't just Melodyne the shit out of. Actually there's no pitch correction in this one, quite a feat for a shitty singer.
Well, I thought that I was done with this one. But as usual the clinic has sniffed out some areas that need improvement and adjustment. Thanks fellas!
