" EMO " Mix, done for a friend - hows the mix?

[alecmcmahon]

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this is an emo song i recorded for a friend of mine, wants to give it to his girlfriend for xmas.... i dunno how the mix sounds, pretty good i think, its not my style of music... you know how it goes...


all keys , guitars, and bass were DI'd.... the drums are real...


is there any key things wrong with the song?????

thanks

-alec

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

This isn't really emo, but I digress.

Sounds muffled and thin. Vocals are buried and anemic. Overall the mix is blurry. Too much trashy high hat. Wimpy, undefined low end. Piano sounds really cheap without top end. Snare is too soft, even for this song. Kick drum has some punch, but no real thump or definition.

Not wretched, but not good either.

Of course the chick will probably wet her panties in a glut of estrogenic glee over the prospect, so I guess mission accomplished.

 

[alecmcmahon]

This isn't really emo, but I digress.

Sounds muffled and thin. Vocals are buried and anemic. Overall the mix is blurry. Too much trashy high hat. Wimpy, undefined low end. Piano sounds really cheap without top end. Snare is too soft, even for this song. Kick drum has some punch, but no real thump or definition.

Not wretched, but not good either.

Of course the chick will probably wet her panties in a glut of estrogenic glee over the prospect, so I guess mission accomplished.

thanks for the reply cloneboy...

any advice that i could take into make this better??

the panio was a cheap 50 dollar casio keyboard... just used the Line out feature on the back....


and yeh im sure the girl will like it, but if its not good sounding in the ' recording world ' then my mission isnt accomplished yet.... what could you reccomend me to do to make this sound not so blurry as you stated

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

Better recording, better EQ, better compression.

I think that you could end up mixing this to sound good, it just needs more work and a more critical listening. Ah well, it's hard to get a mix right the first time around anyways.

I'd suggest working on the percussion issues first--thicken those up a bit. Then work on the vocals--get those to sit in the mix good, maybe give them some reverb/ambiance. Then build everything around that.

 

[distortedrumble]

bring the vocals up definitely....lower the hi hat in the mix...raise the main vocals in the mix...that guitar. can you ease up on the distortion.turn down the gain. theres too much distortion...lessen it some and ad a little more low end on that mix..theres no chord distinction. are you using power chords? now the overall ballad style of that would be better if you added in an acoustic guitar in there on the chorus part also...maybe doing the same thing the distortion is doing. try that

 

[alecmcmahon]

thanks for the replys guys... i may be working on it a little more late tonight or tommorow, ... i'll take consideration of evreything said.


also, i think it may be my room where im mixing in.... and my monitors... dont have the money to treat it yet..


im using m-audio bx5's in a barewalled room approx 14x18x7.5

i think it may most likey be my room definitly.... the mix doesnt sound this mushy on my monitors...