Critique on my 1st Direct Input 3 track "metal" guitar mix! (Took 4 hours in Logic..)

[aaronglass]

Critique on my 1st Direct Input 3 track "metal" guitar mix! (Took 4 hours in Logic..)

Hey, it's my first mix ever.



I recorded the electric guitars DI. Then, used Native Instruments' guitar plugin for them on a custom preset. I then used tons of EQ and a few default "EZMix" presets.

It sounds better than I started off with. It's 3 tracks.

Rhythm - Panned -16 left
Rhythm 2 - Panned 16+ right
Lead - center 0

The band isn't terribly amazing, so the guitars are WAY off time. But, I was just wondering if there's any advice out there on EQ/getting rid of the mud/minimizing the "room" sound.

This was sort of the "test run" to put everything I learned (online, lol) about mixing into a demo.

Thanks!

-Aaron Glass

 

[Sonixx]

Would you be willing to make the DI tracks available?

Yeah, the timing needs a lot of work.

The tones are high-mid heavy and unpleasantly gritty and it's lacking real bottom end or low-mid substance.

 

[aaronglass]

Do you mean just the clean tracks? Sure, download the zip here. It comes with the cleans and just the tones applied. No eq or anything. A demo mix with some explanation would be amazing.

Guitars.zip

 

[guitaristic]

Would you be willing to make the DI tracks available?

Yeah, the timing needs a lot of work.

The tones are high-mid heavy and unpleasantly gritty and it's lacking real bottom end or low-mid substance.

What he said! ^^^

Did you do much eq'ing on the guitars? It just seems like there's huge chunks of it missing (lows/lowmids) or the highs and upper mids have been boosted waaaay up.

For a first mix it's not horrible, but it could definitely use some fixing in the eq realm.

 

[kcearl]

https://homerecording.com/bbs/gener.../attention-post-your-mixes-mp3-clinic-303719/

 

[guitaristic]

https://homerecording.com/bbs/gener.../attention-post-your-mixes-mp3-clinic-303719/

I've never noticed that before...lol
Shows how much I pay attention to stickies

 

[aaronglass]

Haha, hey everyone maybe a moderator could move this? Anyway, I updated the mix. I brought down the mids, cut more bass and blended everything better. I think it sounds alot better, and with drums and bass could pass off as a decent demo. Here ya go!

Mix 2 - by aaron-glass on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

 

[Sonixx]

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