Can anyone mix my track

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Thats absolutely brilliant.....got the echo on the vocal as well. Hard pressed to beat this one. I love it. But does my friend Mick?
 
i'm going to give it a shot as well. i should have some time either tomorrow or friday to work on it.
 
can't sleep so i'm working on it now.

how did you get vocal bleed on the bass track?
 
Nice one guys .....very respectable mixes in the headphones...im tired. I'll give them a listen loud tomorrow.
 
nzausrec said:
Not much fun trying to seperate the drums. Not much fun with the vocal bleed onto the bass.
Still is a fun song.
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what did you do to deal with the drums? i personally left the original drum track alone and left it up the middle. i then setup two stereo aux channels and bussed the drum channel to each of them. one has a compressor on it set to squash relatively heavy with a long release time and the other is a pretty aggressive room reverb.

when mixed all together the compressor gives it some meat and the reverb some ambience while the dry track is mixed in to keep it from being mushy
 
second skin said:
what did you do to deal with the drums? i personally left the original drum track alone and left it up the middle. i then setup two stereo aux channels and bussed the drum channel to each of them. one has a compressor on it set to squash relatively heavy with a long release time and the other is a pretty aggressive room reverb.

when mixed all together the compressor gives it some meat and the reverb some ambience while the dry track is mixed in to keep it from being mushy
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I created an aux send, using a low pass filter before sending it to an ambience reverb. The whole dry track was sent through a compressor and mixed up the middle. I think I should have added a little EQ to make the snare "pop" a bit more, but overall I am happy with my mix.
 
Well, even I made four tracks of the drums, high passing so cutting all the lows for the cymbals (which left a lot of their freqs out) and eq'ed and verbed them, low passed the kick, added eq and slight comp to them (but kick was giving an odd distortion over -6db in all freqs so couldn't raise it much) then tried to do the middle. I even got in there and took individual toms and boosted them. But, by the time I tried to deal with the middle I realized it was all sounding like cardboard. Mostly due to the snare and the lack of boost in the kick, but also the weak and short cymbals. (The cymbal's resonance cuts out as soon as the next drum hits.) So, just brought in the one track again and eq'ed it and filtered it to get done with it.
Hence, just two cuts for me.
vox are alright. Gats are manageable. Those were worth the effort. So, a big positive there for the performer. Just the drum and interface software, and the bass guitar you use lets you down I think.

I like the first clean cut I did. The vox stand out more.

Good vox. Interesting vox.

But, if you've got distortion coming thru in the mixes I think the kick is your culprit.
 
Yah...very professional mixes coming now....will be hard to judge. They sound great!

...hmm....sorry about the vocal bleed on the bass, but hey...this is rocknroll....catch the spirit, give it some life. Would love an hear an alternative mix too.
 
nzausrec said:
But, by the time I tried to deal with the middle I realized it was all sounding like cardboard. Mostly due to the snare and the lack of boost in the kick, but also the weak and short cymbals. (The cymbal's resonance cuts out as soon as the next drum hits.)
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this is my reasoning for using parallel compression. by leaving one track unaffected and squashing one down pretty hard with a long release you get an enhanced sense of sustain. then you can bring in the original to give it more life. i didn't do anything to try to bring out individual drums because i figured that it is what it is and i'd rather not chase my tail.

the guitars i felt were very obviously modeled. there was one higher pitched part that i thought sounded very good but high gain modelled power chords tend to sound harsh and stomp all over everything most of the time. it's like they sound so huge that they push everything out of the way and make the mix sound small. i tried to deal with this by hi-passing to make room for bass and drums then bumping the key midrange frequencies.

the vocal was servicable with some eq although as a whole i thought it sounded a bit smeared. i'd be interested to know what the recording chain was. it wasn't bad, just a little indistinct at times.


overall though i'd say it's a valiant effort. i'm no where near perfect with my approach either.

and after doing this i'm thinking of offering up one of my songs to you guys. it was fun.
 
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fyi
Drums- from a quality sample rock CD from the states
Rythm Guiatar- first take Fender Squire in small Marshall amp (using a flat PZM mic I may add)
Power chords Gibson LP with Boss overdrive pedal on.
Bass- First take 5 year old strings Hohner Headless- no headphones
Lead guitar bits, hacked together Gibson les Paul special captured from a milion takes with Boss overdrive pedal on some Acid in house effects
Vocals hacked together using Samson usb mic C01U

Look at the files dry they are awful, but I knew it could produce a good blend.

Now listen to your mixes...they are brilliant, it was a spur of the moment to come here, cos I got as far as I could go and I'm glad i did. 15 years since I produced something like this.

Cheers
 
cybergord said:
fyi
Drums- from a quality sample rock CD from the states
Rythm Guiatar- first take Fender Squire in small Marshall amp (using a flat PZM mic I may add)
Power chords Gibson LP with Boss overdrive pedal on.
Bass- First take 5 year old strings Hohner Headless- no headphones
Lead guitar bits, hacked together Gibson les Paul special captured from a milion takes with Boss overdrive pedal on some Acid in house effects
Vocals hacked together using Samson usb mic C01U

Look at the files dry they are awful, but I knew it could produce a good blend.

Now listen to your mixes...they are brilliant, it was a spur of the moment to come here, cos I got as far as I could go and I'm glad i did. 15 years since I produced something like this.

Cheers
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exactly. i didn't mean for my comments to come across as condescending. just that was what i was hearing over here.

did you record any of the guitars direct or where they all through the amp? what preamp did you use for the mic?

sorry i know thats off the topic of mixing i just found myself wanting to know more about what i was hearing.
 
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