JamEZmusic
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Electric guitar is great now. The solo guitar sounds bad to me still though. I don't think you EQ'd that at all?
Ok, your other tracks sound like they are scooped drastically, high pass filtered too high and have top end boosts. To me, the electric rhythm guitar is the best sounding track in the whole mix now..... ironically. At least you know now that it's possible to work the rhythm guitar into it. Disable all your EQ's and compression etc, it might be easier to start over than to tweak what you already have. Make sure you keep your latest mix to A/B with, I will guarantee you will end up with something 10x better if you just start over, it's the best way to learn.
I think your limiter isn't catching the peaks. The other day I think I saw you took a screenshot of your limiter settings and the attack was set too slow. this needs to be as fast as possible, maybe even with lookahead if your Limiter has that function. and then play with the release setting. you will probably end up somewhere between 20ms and 80ms. I don't know, I use Waves L1 or L2 and it's automatic and much easier to use. If you do one day get around to learning how to bounce your EZdrummer down like a real drum kit, then the Snare can sound great with a lot of limiting, I'm not sure if limiting the whole drum bus will do you any favours whatsoever because those HH's and Crashes will probably go crazy out of control. So bear that in mind. Mixing is so much easier when you can go back to the individual tracks and treat them individually. Heavy saturation controls those peaks on drums, and is the secret to getting loud drums because unlike compression or limiting, saturation gives much more percieved clarity along with adding enough harmonic saturation to make the drums louder than even if the peaks were limited down to the same amount, it can also tame the HH's and Crash's while making your drums punchier. Compression probably isn't even needed as you wrote your drums in a sampler and I am going to guess there is not much dynamic variation anyway, if you use compression on the drum buss itself then you will want to be listening to the HH's because compression getting triggers by the Kick/Snare will give a groove to the HH's which is desireable sometimes, You would play with the release setting to control the amount of groove. But In all honesty, forget about what I just said and later on down the road maybe experiment. You need to concentrate on just EQ right now, get your mix to a good balance using that. Don't overload yourself with stuff to learn. EQ is where you are going wrong. Forget everything else honestly. You can actually get great mixes with EQ alone, Dave Pensado often sets challenges where he would try not to use any compression whatsoever in his mixes. It can be done. Automation is likely but EQ is the critical tool.
I'm not saying that compression isn't critical too, but... for now it's not.
Ok, your other tracks sound like they are scooped drastically, high pass filtered too high and have top end boosts. To me, the electric rhythm guitar is the best sounding track in the whole mix now..... ironically. At least you know now that it's possible to work the rhythm guitar into it. Disable all your EQ's and compression etc, it might be easier to start over than to tweak what you already have. Make sure you keep your latest mix to A/B with, I will guarantee you will end up with something 10x better if you just start over, it's the best way to learn.
I think your limiter isn't catching the peaks. The other day I think I saw you took a screenshot of your limiter settings and the attack was set too slow. this needs to be as fast as possible, maybe even with lookahead if your Limiter has that function. and then play with the release setting. you will probably end up somewhere between 20ms and 80ms. I don't know, I use Waves L1 or L2 and it's automatic and much easier to use. If you do one day get around to learning how to bounce your EZdrummer down like a real drum kit, then the Snare can sound great with a lot of limiting, I'm not sure if limiting the whole drum bus will do you any favours whatsoever because those HH's and Crashes will probably go crazy out of control. So bear that in mind. Mixing is so much easier when you can go back to the individual tracks and treat them individually. Heavy saturation controls those peaks on drums, and is the secret to getting loud drums because unlike compression or limiting, saturation gives much more percieved clarity along with adding enough harmonic saturation to make the drums louder than even if the peaks were limited down to the same amount, it can also tame the HH's and Crash's while making your drums punchier. Compression probably isn't even needed as you wrote your drums in a sampler and I am going to guess there is not much dynamic variation anyway, if you use compression on the drum buss itself then you will want to be listening to the HH's because compression getting triggers by the Kick/Snare will give a groove to the HH's which is desireable sometimes, You would play with the release setting to control the amount of groove. But In all honesty, forget about what I just said and later on down the road maybe experiment. You need to concentrate on just EQ right now, get your mix to a good balance using that. Don't overload yourself with stuff to learn. EQ is where you are going wrong. Forget everything else honestly. You can actually get great mixes with EQ alone, Dave Pensado often sets challenges where he would try not to use any compression whatsoever in his mixes. It can be done. Automation is likely but EQ is the critical tool.
I'm not saying that compression isn't critical too, but... for now it's not.
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