...I need a helping set of ears....

[sdp530]

I have been mixing hip hop music for a little over a year now and I have really only scratched the surface of this art. I am always looking for input on my mixes to help me learn and improve my future mixing. I know that one of the most important pieces to a good mix is having good ears and the ability to tell what will and will not work. Anyways I am in the process of putting the final mix on our cd and I am running into a slight problem. I have been listening to my mixes in all different types of systems, from boombox's to home theater. Some systems it sounds great, real clean and the vocals sound just right, in others the vocals sound drowned out and at times real ear splitting with some of the higher tone vocals. Most of the time the stereos that have a close left and right speakers it sounds good, but when you put it in a large room with speakers spread quite a ways apart, thats when they sound drowned out by the beat. I would really appreciate it if you could lend me your ears to get a few different opinions on the mixes. I put up four diverse sounding tracks on our page so feel free to check them out and let me know if there is something I am not hearing.

www.myspace.com/shutdownproductions

I really appreciate your time and any feedback is welcome. I also want to warn you that there is explicit lyrics so please don't check out the tracks if that is going to offend you.

-C

Also....this is just a small hometown project that is going to be burnt on cd-rs so we are not planning on getting it mastered professionally so keep that in mind.

 

[faderbug]

i'm impressed!! i'm listening to this on lousy computer monitors but as far as i can tell this is a very well balanced mix with accurate low end and vocals that sit particulary well.

just this : get it mastered, it's worth it.

 

[sdp530]

Thanks for checking them out, with such a small project I am really hard pressed to get it mastered but I may have to. If anyone has suggestions for a good mastering studio for someone on a budget let me know.
Thanks again,
-C

 

[sdp530]

Hey, just droppin in to let you know that I have done some tweaks on the songs that I originally posted on here and I am pretty sure they sound a lot better than they did the first time so check em out again if you get a minute….

www.myspace.com/shutdownproductions

Thanks Again

-C

 

[rayc]

The obscenities make me cringe.
The recording is good, the hard panning is a little too hard.
Try another one with out the swearing, gangsta & violence - even if it's meant to be satire it's too much - & I'll have another listen.

 

[sdp530]

Hey, sorry about all the obscenity but I did warn you about it up top, hehe. Anyways thanks anyways for taking a listen. I am going to ease up on that panning and get them runnin in the center. Sounds cool at first but after a while it just gets old.
-C