Critique, please.

[mattd]

I've got a track that I've put together and I'd like to get some opinion about it. It's a clip of the instrumental parts of an old Rush tune. I'm looking for opinion about overall sound. It feels like I've done about the most I can with it, and am not sure if there's more to do -- it may just be at the limits of my original tracking. But assuming there is more to do, I'm not sure what would come next. So, a few fresh sets of ears to have listen seems a good idea.

- Level is about -18dbfs and peaks around -12 (I think SoundCloud has normalized it though -- I'm not sure).
- Kick and bass sit together reasonably well.
- Guitar tone seems pretty good, though I think it could probably be improved if I had spent a bit more time getting a better sound to track -- but it's not the worst. I've added about +2db at 1.5kHz to the rhythm guitars, along with some reverb.
- there's some Comp on the toms.
- some EQ cuts on kick and bass, but I think no cuts on snare.
- a ducking delay added to the guitar solo.

But in particular, the rhythm guitar in the left channel during the guitar solo still sounds more buried than I'd like, but I don't know which frequencies to cut from what instruments to allow that a little more space -- I've tried a couple things but it doesn't seem to make much difference.

Any and all criticisms welcome, and thanks for listening.

Matt

http://soundcloud.com/user9853785/mixmp3

 

[zero00]

Hello mattd... well, i found the bass too hot and also is killing the kick, a mayor equalization is needed to make them clear. The rest sounds fine to me.

The mix overall is too low mate, remember, when you'll bring it up to 0 db the noise will also come up, so, try to mix in an upper level, like -5 or -6 dbs.

Regards.

 

[guitar zero]

Very well played. I like the mix overall. Has a nice groove to it. Yeah the bass could come down but not much. I felt I could hear the kick pretty well. As mentioned earlier, the overall sound level is too low. I agree with that, but that can always be brought up later.

 

[mattd]

Thanks for listening and for the recommendations.

Both said that the bass is too loud. Is it that the whole bass track is too loud, or is it that the bass is covering too many frequencies and some broad range needs to be EQed out somehow?

Recommendations?