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Pitch shifting by 9cents does nothing to "ruin" a good take. From OU812 forward Eddie Van Halen recorded single takes, then they doubled the track, separated by 30ms, and pitch shifted one guitar by 9 cents. The king of tone himself would not have allowed someone to "fuck up" his tone...

Moving closer to the mic for soft passages and further away for loud is proper mic technique, on stage and in the studio. This is what untrained vocalists *don't"* do and it creates headaches for engineers who have to find one set gain level for the wide range of unpredictable volume...

Were these multitrack recordings already EQed, compressed, etc? Because this sounds seriously good for a "first" recording - almost too good to be true. Everything is balanced in level and tone, the bass sits with the kick, etc. I find it very difficult to believe that this is your first mix...

Drums sound really, really nice. Whatever the room mic was and however much you crushed it had a terrific effect. An occasional tom hit me with too much thump though, a little out of place.

Man, I'm hard pressed to come up with any serious critiques (regarding the mixing, not the performance. There are some lead guitar notes I didn't love, but that's totally subjective). Could the toms come up, get less verb, be further in front? Sure. But if you didn't change them it wouldn't...

Copy and pasting alone aren't going to get the job done, man.

I would prefer the opposite: One compression with two EQs, one on either side. That way you can do subtractive EQ first, cutting out unwanted frequencies so that they don't get compressed (and thus made even more noticeable), then additive EQ after so that the frequencies you want to boost don't...

Thanks man, is it okay if I use it in my Engineering Portfolio with credit and link to your SoundCloud page? Appreciate it.

See, EZDrummer is one of the smartest purchases I ever made. Different strokes, eh?

So this is a great cover. Well recorded, with the slight exception of some excessive lip/mouth noise before the start of some lines that was brought out by the inevitable mastering compression. But here's my 30 min master, in headphones only (too late in my house to monitor out loud). This is...

Hey man, I'll take a look at this, but it seems like you have only ever posted on this forum to have other people lend their time and energy to help you. Please consider commenting on other people's mixes and getting involved in the discussions. This is a great community, and everybody helps...

I haven't been able to listen to the song yet (I will soon tonight), but in general, there is a huge difference between a "good bass tone" when you're playing the bass, and "good bass tone" in a mix. Typically when you solo the bass is a great mix, it sounds like crap. That's because that great...

Thanks for your kind remarks. My system is largely Presonus top to bottom. I monitor on Presonus Eris 8, everything running through Presonus Audiobox 44VSL audio interface, and using Presonus Studio One Professional DAW and mastering suite. I use SONY MDR-7506 headphones for critical listening...

Hey man, thanks for sharing! The Demon I Know -Lead vocals can come up for sure. While I can hear them, and mostly make out the lyrics, they feel very distant. Try pushing the fader up 2db or so to start, and once they're a little more out front, you may need to deal with compression, but they...

Boom from the body, room noise, any number of places. High pass filtering is one of the biggest keys to clean, balanced mixes, and probably and of the most underused tools by beginners. EDIT: Good for you for figuring out the discrepency! Use your ears when deciding how aggressive to HPF, not...

Hey man, you KNOW I love your work. But there's one thing that needs to be addressed before you can even get down to a proper mix, which is that the instruments are not sync at all. The acoustics are all out of time with each other for most of the first 2/3 of the song. No matter what you do...

Hey guys, here is my final mix and master of this beautiful song. I spent the day driving around to gigs, and was listening to my last one in various systems here and there. As we all know, listening in commercial systems will reveal all kinds of things. I decided the second half of the song...

For anyone who wants to hear, this is my mix (second pass) and master (first pass).

And gave way to the totally authentic pop industry with lip syncing and autotune? The 80s may have layered up on background vocals but those were still real bands, real musicians, playing and singing live. Whether you like the sound or not.

Using different guitars, different amps, different EQs, mic positions, etc will all help. You can pitch shift one of the parts by -9 cents ish. Some of this stuff you've done. In the end, you've got such a damn tight performance that it just may thin out in mono. Unfortunately that's just part...