Mix Critque

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i dont like the way i captured the snare.. its tuned pretty well but i think im capturing too much attack and im just not getting the sound i want.
 
Everything seems like its far mic'ed.
Especially the guitars.

Its a personal thing, but i like that in your face sound.
 
I'm listening on headphones. Doesn't really sound far mic'd to me. :confused: Might have to give it another listen on the speakers today.

I think the guitar sounds pretty good and drums sound fine to me. I like the song.

At around 1:20 or later it starts to sound kind of messy when the lead guitar comes in. The whole thing sounds a little messy actually but not that bad until the lead guitar comes in.
 
the two things that come to mind have been mentioned already -

1. the snare - sounds kinda weak

2. when the lead guitar comes in it does sound kinda messy ....

other than that sounds good :)
 
Guitar sounds a bit incongruous to everything else. The drums sound distance mic'd and the gtrs are very dry and up the center/front (just as I write this I'm hearing some panning going on but nver mind!), still the main guitar is kinda dry for my tastes, especially with the drums sounding as they do. How about copying the guitar to a second track and playing with some track slip/panning, and add a bit of 'verb?
 
Drums sound fine to me. the snare sits well within the image.
The 1st guitar tone change sounds a little aenemic to me - the rhythm chords after the riffing.
The 1st solo over the riff does get a little untidy - don't know if it's the solo or the layering of two lines. Listen to 'em individually to suss that one out.
The 2nd solo works better - no as much competition - the panned keyboard (?) sweep is um...
Good work so far.
 
hey guys thanks alot for all the reviews and comments i kept forgetting to write back on this one. but anyways, some updates.

I agree the snare is weak - any ideas on how to beef it up (bout to start a thread on this topic)

For the first solo .. it was messy so now i turned down the backing riff 4 dB and that cleaned it up a bit .. still undecided on if its stayin or not..

lets see what else was mentioned?

oh yeah the guitar riff was doubled and panned hard left and right to beef it up more..

nothing was really far miced.. i dont know why but uploading it on soundclick really made everything sound pretty bad, after listening to the the actual project on my computer it sounds pretty nice. It sounds distant on here. But anyways my room is horrible so for now i cant even dream of far micing.

I will also be adding some verb to the guitars spice them a bit. try some more panning.

I'm real good friends with this band .. pretty much the fifth member of this band. lol so we will be working on some more music soon, got a acoustic number in the making, we almost write songs in the studio so its a pretty good time, but i really like the sounds you get for acoustic danny so ill probably have some questions for ya. At this point i use a AT 4050 about 3-8 ins away from the 12th fret.. or at least i tell the guys to keep it around there. although i saw you responded in the other thread talking about the 17th fret so ill have to try that too.

Again thanks for all the reviews, and stay posted.
 
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