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Hey all. this is the first real serious project i've done. its a friends band. hardcore/metal type stuff. not done yet, but i'd like to see how i'm moving along, make sure i'm not headed in the wrong direction


let me know what you think. any tips and suggestions as to what i can do to better my mixes would be very much appreciated. thanks
 
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'Sup, fag? (It's Nick.)

I heard this at Scott's house, but on his computer speakers.

The only complaint I have is that everything sounds weak. I'd like to hear it all sound more powerful. This isn't really that constructive, because I can't really think of anything to explain what I mean. Also, try to clean up the triggering in the rolls towards the beginning. It sounds a little too fake.

I think you might just not be compressing stuff enough.

Hmm, I dunno. Hopefully someone other than me responds.
 
EQ!!
You need more hi on those guitars to get the power you are looking for, and maybe add a little mid because that will cut throught mix, right now it sounds like you are scooping mids. But that might be my crap speakers. Just add high to those guitars for more power, low end doesn't do everything.
 
Nick, do you mean the tom rolls in the beginning? if so, they aren't triggered haha. The snare is though. I'll have to play with the EQ on the guitars, that was the one thing the band had to say about it. I've already made some changed, but haven't gotten around to posting it.
 
richardsorr said:
Nick, do you mean the tom rolls in the beginning? if so, they aren't triggered haha. The snare is though. I'll have to play with the EQ on the guitars, that was the one thing the band had to say about it. I've already made some changed, but haven't gotten around to posting it.
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Yea, I meant the snare. It sounds good overall, though. Just a bit dry. Maybe try a short, roomy reverb on the snare.

This band should not break up. :(
 
more highs/high mids. its sounds hella dark, not clear enough. vocals too loud. the vocals have a weird hollowness to them and a lack of high end- were they tracked through an amp?
 
The vocals are overpowering the mix. I agree with geet73 it sounds weak. Give the drums a hint of compression to fatten them up. A little room reverb would help to create some space between the instruments.
 
BRIEFCASEMANX said:
more highs/high mids. its sounds hella dark, not clear enough. vocals too loud. the vocals have a weird hollowness to them and a lack of high end- were they tracked through an amp?
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No, the singer wouldn't use a stationary mic. So he was just running around my room screaming into a Sennheiser E835. He does the whole, cover mic with hands while screaming into it thing.

There is a short reverb on the snare. I still need to play with that, I can't get it to be consistantly strong. I'll try to post an updated mp3 tonight. thanks guys
 
oh yeah, the boxing the mic with the hands thing.....

yeah it doesn't sound good. tell the singer to get a grip. grab him by the collar and shake him and say "pull yourself together man!". I have tried this many times on many singers, including on myself!

It works!!!!
 
BRIEFCASEMANX said:
oh yeah, the boxing the mic with the hands thing.....

yeah it doesn't sound good. tell the singer to get a grip. grab him by the collar and shake him and say "pull yourself together man!". I have tried this many times on many singers, including on myself!

It works!!!!
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If that doesn't work try bitch slapping him a couple of times ,tie his arms to a chair ,and position the mic at the proper distance. :D
 
bump. new mp3 up


i compressed the snare a bit more and turned up the reverb on it just a tad. added more mids to the guitars. I'm not gonna pan the cymbals hard l/r like they are now, I'm not entirely happy with the snare, theres a sample blended with the original track, i'll guess i have some more playing to do. when mixing, the bass drum sounds so much thicker then it does on my computer speakers. could just be the speakers though.. tell me whatcha think. thankss

rich.
 
I couldn't hear the first mix, so will comment on the second only. I thought for this type of hard/screamy/growly vocal stuff, it was done well. Vocals seem to sit about where they should, and guitars seemed to sound very good for the mix. No real help, but maybe it doesn't need much. Bit more tweaking, but nothing specific I can point out.
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The band is great! Tight and ever changing is always good by me.
The mix is generally good. It seems that guitars are the always the #1 mixing priority in music like this. I just about always call for more bass, so here it goes: More Bass! (just a little) And a little more drums, too. On the other hand, I would probably mix this a little differently than this kind of music it normally is.
I can say nothing about the vocals because I don't 'get' the approach. I could determine no words from the english language; nor could I guess at what language it might have been in, if not english. The one 'aarrrrrrrgh' that was by itself somewhere in the middle sounded pretty cool though.

Anyway, thanks for letting us all listen.
 
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