Good job guys. Here's my comments:
cary-
Nice overall mix. From 0:32-0:35 I noticed the snare sounds a litte off, like you tried to replace some hits but the timing is a little off??? I'm not sure, but I'm hearing something here. I think you could back off the bottom snare track a little to give the snare some more attack. The chorus sounds nice and powerful on your mix. I would have liked to hear some delay on the vocals in some spots as well, but that's more of a production thing. I can tell you got a really good ear for things, it's just a matter of honing that skill and really developing technique which will only come from more experience. I thought maybe it was a little on the noisy side as well--just ever so slightly. What software are you using? Overall, nice mix!
wetteke-
I think i've lost my ability to hear high frequencies after listening to your mix. It's deafening. Unpleasant. It hurts. I know the preamp sounds really dark, but man...this is weird. Maybe there's something wrong with your software's summing engine. Who knows. Sounds like it could be a good mix, but there's so much damn 8khz+ on it and no low end at all.
man@work-
Your mix sounds like it's coming off the radio. It's pretty compressed but it doesn't peak at 0db. It sounds distorted. If you are mixing on software, remember to not have any overs on the channels. There's no such thing as headroom in digital! It's a bit noisy and distorted. It also appears that you EQ'ed the mix with your eyes and not your ears! The frequency response on this mix is almost perfectly flat. This is a big no-no.
christiaan-
ah yes. From the first second I heard I knew it was a pleasant mix. Your snare sounds similar to cary's but you seemed to lay off the bottom snare mic. Like cary's mix, I'm hearing a little bit of noise as well. I'm not sure where this is coming from. Your mix is really similar to cary's. Well done.
chessrock-
Awesome mix. The keys gave it nice touch. I'm not sure if that's what this song needs, but I think it could definitely benefit from something like that. I was really impressed with how you were able to take the crappiest snare and really fatten it up. Thanks for filling me in on how you did that.
As with the others, I'm hearing a little bit of noise in there as well, but less than the others. Your mix is a tad gritty. I'm not sure how you go about making it less gritty, but if your mix were to be mastered, it would only exaggerate the grit. One thing I didn't really care for too much was the jump in volume on the choruses. The choruses are naturally louder because there's more tracks running on the choruses. Leave that master fader alone; let the music do the overall dynamics. Nice outro on it too! I enjoyed very much. Awesome mix. It gave me some ideas on my mix.
Sluice-
That phaser or whatever it is gave a nice touch to the acoustic but it was a little heavy in my opinion. I thought the bass guitar could have been brought down a lot. Also one of the palm muttin elec. guitar parts sounded off timed like maybe when you imported the audio file somehow you dragged it out of place or something. I thought the snare was a little bottom mic heavy too. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it. This is a good mix.
Most of your mixes suffered from grit and/or noise. Those of you runnign DAW's have the awesome advantage of cutting out all the crap you don't need. The "clear" function (as in protools) is your best friend for making mixes clean. Tracks that don't have anything going on in a particular place just contribute noise. Clear those parts of the file. As far as that grit problem goes--like I said, there's no such thing as headroom. 0db is 0db. Don't let any meter on your DAW go red. The grit could also be a result of the plugs you are using, I'm not sure.
Please don't take any offense to my comment, it's contructive criticism. Feel free to rip apart my mixes
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Also, can someone back me up on this noise issue? I'm pretty sure it's not my monitoring equipment. When I compare the noisy mixes to my mix, I notice the noise in the noisy mixes and not mine...so i'm basing my noise claims relative to my mix.
