Mix this! Alternative Metal song (28 tracks)

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Hey everyone i'm a senior sound technician student (and I'm doing a F.O.H and monitor engineering grade next year, since unfortunately money today is just on live-music), and I know a lot of live sound-engineers and studio engineers in my zone, and also i've played bass and guitars in some local bands, and also as a sound guy, i've recorded some local bands and I did as a sound tech some live shows especifically in the rock - metal area, that it is what I enjoy most.

The reason why i'm telling this is because the other day cleaning my hard-drive, I realized that I had a lot of recorded multi-track stuff of the last years (live shows, studio recordings etc.), and since I was about to erase it, I thought to myself. Hey ¿Why don't I upload those tracks, and let people mix it, so they can practice they mixing skills? (I even had live multitrack recordings from pretty famous metal bands when they played in my town, but those I guess they have copyright, so I have to see what I can upload and what not)

I guess, that doing this I can learn a lot from people around here with some constructive criticism, and vice versa. So if this ends up being interesting, I will upload more stuff.

So this particular song was from a band, that I ended up being the bass-player in 2013, and then after recording they splitted up (sorry for the Singer that has a bad english :D)

This is my mix



This is the sound that you get when putting, all the tracks on your DAW
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8SqT8eD7QRtdWZxZlJWeDIwY2M/edit?pli=1

WAV's are 48 KHz - 16 bit 39 MB each track (750 Mb in total)
Song Tune: A#
BPM: 109

And here are all the 28 tracks (drums, guitar and bass are mic'ed - no triggers - no line in). Nasty Mattress Bruto
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8SqT8eD7QRtcjlUSUg3b3Q1d0k&usp=sharing

ZIP file (180 Mb - When unzipped, it should be 750 Mb)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8SqT8eD7QRtSUN1aTc2RnZ3cnM/view?usp=sharing
 
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Wait, which file is this song? The link gives 4 live recordings.

By the way, not too shabby man! I am curious enough to hear the raw files. \m/
 
Aw man, cant you place it in a zipped folder or something? 28 separate downloads is just annoying ya know?

I don't mean to be a whiny little bitch but really, it sucks to waste that much time. :)
 
i will have a go at mixing this , could i upload my final mix on my soundcloud at all? just to show my mix
 
@ianopie Thanks so much for sharing!!! appreciated very much, and I'll be very grateful if you decide to share more, cheers!

Here is my mix!

 
I was going to take a crack at this but here are the problems I'm having:

1. You need to bounce everything in Mono.
2. You need to number your tracks, for example: 01 kick, 02 snare, 03 Tom 1, 04 Tom 2 etc... That way it's not a cluster of a mess on import.
3. There are missing tracks from the zip file, I only have 1 tom apparently?
4. You should (IMO) include a midi file of the tempo so we have it. If it's a static tempo then the BPM is fine.
 
Holy snare compression man! \m/

Lot of pulling shit up front but dood....Wow...

Tame that back a bit. :)
 
Yeah I probably should have backed off of it lol. I was trying to get a certain sound and couldn't so I just kinda left it alone without correcting it. Bad Ed.
 
Here's what I got for this track. I probably kept the mix more straight-forward than I should have had. Oh well. Let me know what you think. I haven't mixed any metal tracks before. 28 tracks nearly killed me today...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B99eCZsyOm7iVlBGQmhxX3pYeGs

It is not as loud as Bruto's mix, but I think it's pretty good.

(Edited the link with a mix I found more satisfying, take a look)
 
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