BloodLetting - Detroit Metal

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Typically you need to actually listen and comment on others material to gain a listen. Its not a required thing but its pretty much the proper thing to do in the Mixing clinic. Seeing that this was your one and only Post it will probably be viewed as spam by most.
I listened to the first track, so heres what came to mind. The mix is very lifeless. The drums sound triggered but it may just be the fact that they hardly have any ambience. Around 1:30 there is something weird going on with the hi-hats. It sounds like a gate is opening and closing on it.
The bass could use some brightening or cut some freq's on the guitars so it pokes through better.
The guitar sounds like you ran it direct. I suppose it works for this style. The vocal levels jump around a bit.
Overall the music sounds like every other generic Nu-metal group thats out there. Reminded me of Mudvayne, but at least they are interesting SOMETIMES.
 
Way too bass heavy by a factor of five... this is totally unsat. High end sounds compromised and fake. Mids are weak and blurred. Lack of presence in anything that isn't bass. Vocals are buried so far in the mix.

But wowie zowie kablowie... this sure is LOUD. ::yawn::

Horribly bad mix. Whoever mixed this didn't know what they were doing, or were told to do stuff against their better judgement.

God this is bad.

Make it stop.

Please remix and remaster. There are people here that do mixing and mastering that can hook you up.

The way it is now... it is just terrible.
 
haha alright cloneboy really said what I wanted to say and so gracefully. I totally agree with his comments.
 
I'm generally not known for my tact, but at least I try to be funny when ripping poor people (that ask for it) apart.

Honestly not everything I say is negative, it's just that there's so much crap out there.
 
Really too bass heavy. I'm assuming that's going to be due to poor monitoring. That will need to be addressed.

Just guessing here, but it sounds overdubbed all over the place. I think you could get a better vibe by doing the tracks all together instead of one at a time. It sounds like the band is very tight. The vocals are real weak. (Recording wise. The voice, when you are actually singing, is real good.)

I'd find a studio and pay to have these three songs done. That way you have some experience in recording. And you'll actually have a usable product in the end.
 
The drums are way too triggered. And not triggered very well, I might add. There are points where the closed high hat just cuts short. It sounds way too artificial to me. The guitars don't have very much presence and in heavier music, that is key. The vocals are mixed decently, but the performance is very much lacking. The bass is really only audible when there are string slaps or higher notes. Any other time, the kick drum kills pretty much any bass that was there. Try bringing the low frequency on the kick down to about 80hz (my safe range, I'm a wuss) and bring the highs/mids up a little bit (but not much). This will make the kick audible on systems that don't have much bass response, and even more audible on systems with great response. And definitely bring the bass' low frequencies up a bit. And that's the end of my 2 cents.
 
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