Is this bottom tight on your speakers?

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Trying to get a tight solid clear mix with a tight bottom end. I fight boominess constantly and am just getting where I can control it correctly (thank the lord for multibands, I'm loveing the Waves Linear MB, awesome kit!)
I have everything in the mix rolled out below 55hz or so I think...


Anyway --> www.nowhereradio.com/demoking/singles click on hi-fi
 
i dont have anything to listen to on other than some cheaper headphones but it sounds good over them actually maybe a little light in the bottom end. well recored and nice song by the way
 
The bottom sounds tight enough but you are missing some serious midrange and high end. Try pushin the 4-6k freq range to hear what I'm on about. Maybe try pushin a bit above 16k to add a little air to these.

Nice work by the way, I really enjoyed Inner Blue and One Fine Line.
 
Thanks guys.
You think the midrange is shy? Sounds like a pretty standard modern rock sound to me, I'll try that and see how it feels though.
 
Sounds great in my cans and pc speakers. Only thing I can think of is that it sounds a tiny bit harsh in the mid and possibly upper ranges. Maybe some softening there. But I'm no expert by any means, so feel free to ignore.

I'm not sure about the snare. It sounds a bit rattly?

Can you tell a bit how you tracked, especially the guitars (nice sound) and bass?

Anyway, great job -- it really sounds pro!
 
The bottom end sound clear and percise to me! (I'm listenning through a pair of event TR8's)

The only thing I could mention is that the bottom drum (can't find the right word!) losses a bit of punch when the song's running! I think the song would gain som flow in letting it come through just a bit more!

Anyways, good work. According to me the song has the Rock-sound it needs!

/chip
 
Bottom drum? The kick drum?

Guitars and vocals are both a Sennheiser MD441-U-5 into a Brent Averill 312A. Peavey tube amp of some sort, I think a Tube 100, and my Marshall cabinet with standard celestions in it. I'm starting to mic away from the voice coil a lot more these days. Too many thin guitar sounds. It seems to work better to get more out on the cone and add some top or mid with a really really really good EQ. I make them back way off the gain and put in a little mids these days too, and that makes a big difference. It still sounds heavy with less gain, and loses all that nasty fizz.
No EQ on the vocals except for the overall mix eq, which was a slight boost somewhere near the top. Vocals are compressed to hell and back with the Sonitus compressor though.
 
Wow, the vocals are on the Sonitus comp. They sound great. I use that comp quite a lot but wouldn't have guessed that one. One pass through?
(Still on p/c speakers here -won't even try to judge bass.
Wayne
 
Im currently listening to Blackencide and the first thing that strikes me is the vocals are sooo sweet, kinda like the singer from silverchair. What mic did you use for them? The bottom end sounds okay to me, maybe needs a bit more :)
Great song though :D
 
Blackencide was done over a year ago so hard to rem. I THINK the vocals were a U195 into an RNP at the time. Hopefully I've gotten better since then, since they are back in the studio with me now doing a new full length. The One FIne Line song is the one I'm worried about for now ;)

Yes one pass through on the Sonitus, maybe 3-5 db taken off with an RNC on the way in. Pretty squashed with the plugin though, up to 12 db at times. Its a good compressor.
 
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