Am I missing anything?

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Mix wise all is fine. I feel the snare is a little up front for its tone but that's personal.
Good work.
 
is there a bass guitar? it seams to be missing some middle meat.

NVM, I hear the bass, but it seams verry high up. maby fatten up the low end a bit

and is that a crash? it dosn't seem quite right to me, It gives me a mental image of some one trying to rock along with a tryangle.

hope this helps
 
I felt I had to cut the lo mids on the bass as it was messing up the mix. There is a good deal of low end on the bass already but not much around 250Hz.
I bosted at 20-100 and at 500 and 4K.

Cheers.
Eck
 
The kick and snare will be a bit quieter in the final mix, or maybe just the snare as im starting to like the upfront kick.

Im not sure what you mean by the bass being high up.
Do you mean tone or volume, as I dont beleive thebass to be that loud or that present.

Eck
 
I agree,..the kick and snare need to come down. Upfront kicks are fine,..but I think this is too much. I'd try backing off of them both. Guitars sound pretty good.

Calwood
 
I can hear a lot of the room in the drums. is it possible to make them just a tad more dry? how much of that verb is recorded and how much added afterwards?

also I agree about the gtrs and bass sounding a bit thin/bright


otherwise very very solid. good playing, the gtr tone is quite clear for as much distortion as you've got.
 
I listened on computer speakers which normally sound decent for what they are and your mix sounded like just drums until I turned it up some. Once I did I could hear guitar but the drums were way louder. It sounds like a drummer in a small room overdubbing a guitar track with very little bottom and low mids.
 
fuzzrhythm said:
I can hear a lot of the room in the drums. is it possible to make them just a tad more dry? how much of that verb is recorded and how much added afterwards?

also I agree about the gtrs and bass sounding a bit thin/bright


otherwise very very solid. good playing, the gtr tone is quite clear for as much distortion as you've got.
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Cheers man.
There is a bit of reverb on the snare and thats it. (none added at recording.) I cant really hear much room, but could be the fact that I compressed the drums that it brought up the background noise.

Eck
 
NYMorningstar said:
I listened on computer speakers which normally sound decent for what they are and your mix sounded like just drums until I turned it up some. Once I did I could hear guitar but the drums were way louder. It sounds like a drummer in a small room overdubbing a guitar track with very little bottom and low mids.
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That must be your speakers, as the drums were the first thing to get recorded (to a click track) and there is a decent amount of low end on it. Plus it was recorded in a pretty big studio.
You are rirght that the kick and snare are too loud at the moment. That is how I mix, I leave the kick and snare louder than I want until I am at the final stages of mixing, then put them a bit louder than I want them to sound after mastering.

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
You are rirght that the kick and snare are too loud at the moment. That is how I mix, I leave the kick and snare louder than I want until I am at the final stages of mixing, then put them a bit louder than I want them to sound after mastering.

Eck
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I don't think I understand what you are saying. You leave the kick and snare too loud until the final mix and then you make them even louder? What's the point of asking about the mix when you knowingly have the drums too loud?

The reason it sounds like drums overdubbing the guitar is because there is too much room mixed in, not because of the order it was tracked.
 
Eck - I agree that the kick drum sounds a bit loud on this track. It sounds like you are aware of that. The rest sounds ok to me....

:) :D :) :D
 
NYMorningstar said:
I don't think I understand what you are saying. You leave the kick and snare too loud until the final mix and then you make them even louder? What's the point of asking about the mix when you knowingly have the drums too loud?

The reason it sounds like drums overdubbing the guitar is because there is too much room mixed in, not because of the order it was tracked.
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I meant to say that I leave the kick,snare and toms louderuntil it is ready for mastering then I brin the drums down a bit, but still leave them a tad louder than I want them tosound after mastering since limiting at mastering kllssome of the punh of the drums. I probaly should have fixed the drum level before posting this thread, but I am still interested in what anyone has to say about anything else in the mix.

I updated the link so the drums are now at a better level.
What do yous think now?

Cheers,
Eck
 
ido1957 said:
Eck - I agree that the kick drum sounds a bit loud on this track. It sounds like you are aware of that. The rest sounds ok to me....

:) :D :) :D
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Cheers man. :)

Eck
 
Sounds like the snare sits in much better now and the tune now has some bottom end on the same speakers. You lost that roomy drum sound too. What stands out now is the metal kick, it still seems detached from the rest of the mix probably because of its volume, especially at about :25 to 1:00 when the strings get soft but the kick stays strong. Maybe pulling back the faders for that section would fit it in better.
 
Yeah I didnt do any volume automation on the drums. Im gona do that for sure.

Cheers,
Eck
 
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