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I'm reworking some recordings done last summer. Here's a rough mix of one, but there are some considerations. Anything I do has to be done with the existing tape. The bassist is gone, and there is a second guitar now. The group will be coming up for a week or two to record again, so I'm mixing the old tracks to get ready and get a feel.

Here's a sample mp3:



Other than mastering (which probably isn't going to be done on this batch), any suggestions?

Thanks,

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Sounds kinda like AM radio. Needs a lot of cleaning up. Did you record it in Digital Format if so there may be some hope?
 
Actually, they kinda like the rough edges. I was trying to preserve that without losing the instruments. Just out of curiosity, what sort of speakers were you listening through? On standard PC speakers, you can't hear any of the bottom, and there is a lot going on there...
 
Where do I begin. Overall it's just a weak recording. Kick is so soft it's MIA. Bass doesn't have enough definition. Guitars.... well...... Also there's a halo of fuzz over the whole thing. The tune is well played but the vocalist has some pitch issues. No slam, just callin' em like I see 'em.
 
That guitar tone is really.. not nice to the ears. It's just bad.

The kick is really weak. Bass, needs to be compressed a bit more. The cymbals are pretty harsh too.

A really weak recording overall. I don't know if it's tracking issues or mixing issues, but there are alot of problems. It needs quite a bit of work, in my opinion.

I'm listening to this through my KRK Rokit8 monitors.. I know these monitors pretty damn well. So it's not an issue there.
 
Here is what it soulds like though my KRK RP8s and Wharfedale 8.2A

Have you ever played a tape on a small boom box and held a mic to the speaker and recorded what was playing. Well, thats the sound your getting.

I'm not trying to be ugle. Just help you see whats happening. How did you record everything and what mics?
 
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No ugliness taken. I know there are major problems, which is why I used this track to post here. It's sort of a worst-case scenario example.

The drums were miked with Peavey PVMs, the guitar with a SM57, the bass inline off an Eden 1510, and the vocals through an AKG C3000. That all ran to a Mackie 24-8, then down to to ADAT XTs. The mix came off the ADATs, to a Carvin MX1688, then to a Phillips CD recorder.

During the mixdown, I used a dbx266 and an ART Elite multieffects. The compressor was applied to the bass and drums, the reverb/effects to the guitar, vocals and cymbals.
 
Thats not bad gear - You should be getting better results.

Can you post a few wave files of the just the lead vocal and a few instruments. That way we can see if its a recording problem. If those sound fine than its just a mixing problem.
 
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