It's hard for me to imagine you're the same dude who does the punk/hardcore stuff on arcadeko's site.
How were the drums done? They fit the song perfectly but are mixed so as to sound kind of timid. There's a wierd sort of wash over the whole mix for me around the same frequency area that the cymbals are in. The bass part was really cool but maybe could have a little more punch/clarity? I dunno. It's the kind of song where I kind of don't care about those things, but bring them up as they occured to me.
Hey thanks heat!
You know, that stuff that I put on Arcadeko's site was years old when I put it up. I was just trying to be a good beta-tester. I'd just log in and hit buttons like crazy and email him every time something wonky happened.
Although I was flattered that you guys dug it, it didn't really represent the type of stuff I've been into the past 5 years or so. Anyways yeah my cymbals sound weird and I still kinda suck at recording drums. My kit is set up in a smallish room in the basement about 3 feet from a couple cement walls. Every time I hit the snare I can hear it slapping back off the wall in the recording, and my cymbals just smother everything. I usually remedy that by pulling the drums back until they don't smother everything else.
Cool I will check this out in the studio - sounds pretty cool - sounds like you been listening to Heatmiser's stuff
I always liked alot of his stuff (assuming you're talking about
our Heatmiser and not the Portland Heatmiser or the Rankin/Bass Heatmiser), but I'll tell ya that 'paper cup' really got to me.... maybe this is kinda my 'paper cup'? only darker? maybe?
Guitars sound real good, the whole mix sounds good on my monitors.
Yeah me too, it's weird. You wouldn't happen to have your monitors about 3 feet apart from each other in a corner next to a 200-gallon heating oil tank, would you?
I don't hear a bass drum though.. is there a bass drum?
Making the kick play nice with the bass is always a problem for me. I usually duck the kick and bump the bass around 200k-300k to try and do this, but obv it doesn't work that great considering most folks can't hear the kick. And when I listen in monitors the kick is so loud it seems disconnected from the rest of the mix. My monitoring situation is also not ideal.
I have to respectfully disagree with all the comments so far. For me the mix sounds very disconnected, meaning nothing seems to really gel. Vocals are too lound, guitars at various points seem to jump out, and could use a bit morre kick. I'd start with pullimg the vocals back and working a bit more on the drums & bass to get a bit more push in the bottom end. Compress accustic guitars more and volume automation.
Thanks for listening duder! I'd fix it and post a new mix, but I've done that before for a different you and the different you never came back to say if it was any better...
I can hear the bass drum OK but I'd turn it up just a bit... I'd leave the rest of the drums where they are though - perhaps a touch more punch on the snare - mids?
I'd also ride the faders a bit on the main vocal... it pops out in a couple of places, and is a tad too soft in others..
Not sure if this a different mix from when you posted originally.
Nice... not too much wrong with it for mine.. but I am listening at low volume on small earphones...
Nah same mix so far and thanks for listening Armistice.
I've just never been a great singer and this song is way at the bottom of my range. When the vocal melody drops low it just gets buried, and sometimes I think that's a good thing as it helps mask my pitchiness a little. I tracked this one over and over again for hours and this was the best I got. Often I just transpose a song so it's right in my comfort zone for vocals, but I tracked this one pretty quick (couple days) and it was mostly done by the time I realized how low the vox were.... I still might redo from scratch but right now I'm just kinda sick of hearing it. I'll probably post another mix in a few days taking into account any reasonable comments people have made.
