Here goes a link to my songs. Let me know.

[MrMcSick]

Let me know what you guys think about the sound quality/mix and even the structure and feel of the songs. Anything goes, I can take it haha. Oh I forgot to mention there aren't any vocals on these yet, just drums, bass and guitar. The first song on there with the stars is an older mix with no bass guitar in it so listen to all the other ones instead.

http://www.garageband.com/artist/lostinsolace

 

[acattoir]

Really cool stuff. I appreciate that you can get the guitar chord voicings to show up so well. If the drumming is all in real time that's really impressive too.

What would I change? The mixes lack low end imo. It's almost as though the bass track was not on but the really fat guitars carried it.

I don't know what your mixing situation is but maybe the monitors are bass heavy or maybe the room has some big bass peaks. Listening to the quality of the rest of the mix makes me know that you didn't do this on purpose.

Maybe it just me? Anyone else want to chime in on this?

ac

Really though, very cool.

 

[MrMcSick]

Thanks. Yeah I have trouble with bass. I do most of the mixing through my headphones and then check it over on my speakers but they have muddy bass so I tend to not add enough low end due to these factors.

The guitar is just my Ibanez plugged right into my lexicon omega interface. I load in amplitube 2 modeling and record a left track and then go back and do the right, end up panning them to about 90% each way.

Bass is a peavey 6 string into Ampeg Svx modeling software on one track right up the middle but I couldn't get the sound I wanted out of it. The tone that sounded good wouldn't cut through the mix so I had to ump the mids all the way back off on the highs due to the clicks and then my problem with the lows.


The drums are ezdrummer with the drumkit from hell expansion. acouple of the songs I used the drag and drop beats method and then went back through the midi inserting crashes and fills and that with the mouse in the midi code. Eventually I borrowed a midi controller and made acouple of the songs by recoring the bass and snare or cymbals first and then keep layering over them adding the other parts of the beat. Took forever!

 

[acattoir]

Well, headphones are what I use as a double check for my bass levels. I'm using Sennheiser 280's, pretty generic but with good extended bass. The question I ask myself while listening is: "Am I hearing the bass in my ears or is it so loud that I'm feeling it too" If I'm feeling it then the bass is usually overpowering on an average system. Also if any of your sofware gives a graphic representation of your mix you should be able to see if the bass is deficient. One other trick is to listen at really low levels on speakers. If you can't make out what the bass is doing then you probably need a pinch more, remembering that your ears are not sensitive to bass at low levels. So what you are looking for is a clear presence of the bass not necessarily a full sound or anything like that.

It seemed the drums were a little too precise to be a human. Doesn't mean I didn't dig it though.

ac