Metal/Rock Song

Your kick and snare sound kinda muddy and the crashes and hats sound really phasy and possibly a little loud.

Guits and bass sound o.k.


Is there a reason why the drums sound like they come in late? Like why do the guitars kick in andthe kit comes in like shortly after them?
 
Atom Bomb said:
Your kick and snare sound kinda muddy and the crashes and hats sound really phasy and possibly a little loud.

Guits and bass sound o.k.


Is there a reason why the drums sound like they come in late? Like why do the guitars kick in andthe kit comes in like shortly after them?
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The reason the drums kick in shortly after the guitars is simply because I screwed up. Should have recorded the drums again. LOL :D Thanks for the feedback on the drums. Will go back and clean up the kick and snare. I will also look into lowering the cymbals in the mix. thanks again.
 
Agree with the previous comment about kick and snare... The cymbals have a fade in? this could be a compressor issue. I have the Waves SSL and has the fade in option, ones i selected for error. So, if that's the problem, is easy to solve, if not... mmm, don't know what could be.
 
zero00 said:
Agree with the previous comment about kick and snare... The cymbals have a fade in? this could be a compressor issue. I have the Waves SSL and has the fade in option, ones i selected for error. So, if that's the problem, is easy to solve, if not... mmm, don't know what could be.
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thanks, I will take a look at that. I did apply a compressor to the overhead mics.
 
Ok then the problem might be the settings for the compressor... you should use a fast attack and a low release, the rate depends on you, i try to keep it low (3:1) to avoid boosting the other drum pads. Also a filter is recommended, kill the frequencies under 500 - 800 hz, if you want of course, sometimes they are cool, sometimes they aren't. That should do the trick.
 
zero00 said:
Ok then the problem might be the settings for the compressor... you should use a fast attack and a low release, the rate depends on you, i try to keep it low (3:1) to avoid boosting the other drum pads. Also a filter is recommended, kill the frequencies under 500 - 800 hz, if you want of course, sometimes they are cool, sometimes they aren't. That should do the trick.
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thanks again. I made the changes to the overhead mics. Sounding better. I think the room mic is screwing up the mix. Any suggestions on how to clean that track up or should I get rid of it?
 
Sounds like you need a good dose of high-pass filtering on the kick, snare & possibly the bass & guitar even. Everything is very bottom heavy - all that sub-bass is probably eating up your headroom too. Cleaning up the those sub frequencies will clear things up in general a lot.
 
The bass needs to be punchier - bring up the highs and take out the sub-bass. Also, the drums are too far back the mix....they need more treble too.

I quite like the dirty, edgy guitar sound, though.

Ooh, one other thing - the rhythm is a bit dodgy in a few places, as if the track is skipping.
 
Is "(unmastered)" a subtitle? Like a song called "Ooh Baby (Baby Tonight)" or something like that? :D

I agree on the cymbal sound. It's over-dominant and over compressed.

Guitar tone sounds cool.

I like the breakdown and buildup near the end.
 
IMO, bring down the low freq for the kick and add some hi freq to sound a little wet and punchy. the bass is too much on its low end also so perhaps it needs a tad of mid freq.. then I would thicken the snare and the guitar.
 
I like the song idea. I wish you had the vocals in to see how in comes together. The drums were a bit sloppy too. However, at low volumes I'm hearing a bunch of noise cutting in and out - like a noise gate that's gone haywire. It's real distracting and not good for the mix. It doesn't look like anyone else mentioned this...strange. I checked some other artists songs on the same system and they sound fine. I heard all three of your mixes and it's there.
 
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