Bleed the Grey (Demo)

[RaiNy]

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[jonlint]

Hi,

Catchy tune - rocks! I am new to home recording but I think your guitars could pop out more by EQing.

Also I think the snare could be also EQed and remixed to make it punchier. I find the snare adds alot of punch to songs like this but be careful adding too much.

This youtube video was quite useful to me "Mixing Distorted Metal Guitars [ Reaper Tutorial ]"

Hope this helps. Rock on!

Jonathan

 

[Pinky]

Might be too much fuzz on the guitars above 1khz. Agree with the prior post, the snare can come up a bit. Bass guitar needs a little more punch, maybe an small EQ bump 60-100hz. The thing to consider is how it will sound when mastered, most metal is mastered hot and some of the things buried in the mix now may pop after a couple runs of compression.

 

[ido1957]

The first rhythm guitar is a little low in volume - for my taste. When the snare comes in and when the second guitar comes in there is a big jump in volume. Does the intro guitar sound out of tune to anyone else? Really great playing and singing and I like the lyrics.

 

[PrideOfNation]

I would lose the delay on the vocals, or push it way down in the mix. It sounds like there is delay on the drums as well, and if so, I would take that off as well. The returns of those delays are muddying up the mix and preventing attacks from being heard. My two cents anyways!

 

[Pinky]

Hey Pinky! Thanks a bunch for the feedback again. I'll tweak the mix with them right now. Do you recommend any particular mastering plugin?

I use Waves L3 ultramaximizer, but to each their own (there's several strategies for mastering, I tend to do some EQing + only do one run with the compression = somewhat lazy + not trying to win the loudness war). Some people compress certain instrument premixes (all guitars, drums, vocals get mixed and compressed seperately, then combined and compressed again). Depends on what you're looking for I suppose. If I'm looking for loud I usually only run the drums through some compression then mash it all together for the final mastering. Otherwise I just mix things, try mastering, and then maybe go back into the mix to adjust things that get brought up or pushed down too much in the master.