Modern Alternative Rock Song (Tear it to shreds please)

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Hey guys this is my first post ever so hopefully this all goes well.

Looking for some constructive feedback!!
(I've already added more time to the end, I dont know why it cut it so short.)
 

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Generally sounded OK to me. performed well.

I thought the vocal reverb made it sound a little dated. Might be what you want, but it gave it a late-70's/early-80's feel.

Guitars sounded pretty good. Personal taste thing, but to me they had a little too much gain to them. Had kind of an amp-sim sound to them.

You might have a low end issue. The bass sounds kind of rumbly.

I'm being kind of picky. I thought it sounded pretty darn good.
 
Hey, I really appreciate the feedback!!

On the reverb was it that i used too much reverb on the vocals that made it sound dated? or not use reverb at all for the vocals?

As for the bass..... I dont know if is an untreated monitoring environment issue or my lack of experience issue (Probably the latter xD)
but i couldnt figure out for the life of me how to get the bass to sound good.

I just recorded my 5 string J Bass directly into my interface and used amplitude for the tone, then used a compressor to level things out a bit. Yet every song theres either too much low end or barely any low end at all. I cant really find a happy medium.

Thanks for the help
 
I agree that there is a little bit too much reverb, I would roll off a little bass and boost the low mids. The cymbals should be brought down a little and the snare and the kick should be boosted. I think the guitars sound pretty good, I might add an acoustic or just make it a bit cleaner. Overall it sounds pretty good though!
 
On the vocal reverb, I though it was both too much and the wrong kind. Going from memory, it sounded like a large hall or plate or something. And it was wet. Mixes today tend to be dryer. I'd also try some small and meduim room reverbs.

On the bass I'd try two things. One, like was mentioned, roll off some of the low end. The other would be to notch out some low end frequency. Often the low end has frequency spikes - i.e., frequencies in very narrow ranges that are much louder than other frequencies nearby. they're easy to notice but sometimes hard to find.
 
This sounds like a bad room or a headphone mix. All the frequencies and processing seems to be over the top. The highs are shrill and the lows are booming. The reverbs are excessive and the level balance is off. First thing, bring all those wild cymbal crashes way down. They're obnoxious. Next clean out the low end. The kick is getting murdered under the bass and mud in the guitars. Do some EQ'ing down there. Find the offending boominess and notch it out to leave space for the kick without having to boost it super loud. Give the snare more body. It's very tinny. I think the vocals are a little muddy and too wet. Get them cleaner. They'll be more audible without them having to be so loud in the mix. Finally, back off the compression. It's too heavy handed on this mix. Go easier on the individual track compression and easier on the master bus compression. That seems like a lot of stuff, and it is, but I think a total re-work is in order for this mix.
 
Greg_L said:
This sounds like a bad room or a headphone mix. All the frequencies and processing seems to be over the top. The highs are shrill and the lows are booming. .
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As per this problem you should learn how to use your HPF and LPF (high and low pass filters) for example you can LPF the fizz out of the guitars and HPF the mud out.

Performance is good.
 
Thank you all for the replies!

I am very new at this and left to experiment with everything myself and this is my first official feedback on any of my mixes so im very greatful for the advices.

First off i'm using sonar and have to use the basic reverb that came with sonar x1 but i do know i upped the room size a bit just because it sounded a little odd to me with the reverb down a bit. BUT I think it just might be the whole singer thing in how my voice always sounds weird to me.

As for greg's post, definitly a bad room mix, but I will have a go at all the things you mentioned and hopefully have a new mix by tonight! (Thanks for the informative response)

2:38 Took a crash hit added a long tailed reverb to it, reversed it, added a surround sound effect to move from left to right to center, and added an 808 sample to when the chorus came back in.

The guitars all have an 80hz high pass filters and the vocals has a high pass filter as well but the guitars dont have low pass filters on them, will try that out!
 
Cool tune...
I`m about as new as they get when it comes to recording, but the biggest thing that stuck out to me, that seamed not right so to speak, were the symbols..
and especially one of them, it can be heard @ about 38 seconds (and multiple times prior)...something just sounds wrong about it..kinda dead so to speak....
the next biggest thing for me, is a lack of lower end, the kick, and perhaps the over all sound, seams a bit heavy in the mid range....
anyway, rock on man!..
 
Glad to hear there is still hope for rock music in this world today!

But I had a stab at it again tonight. (reworked it last night but after spending couple hours on it I must have got to carried away with myself and forgot to save along the way...... then my computer crashed and I lost all my work... :facepalm:)

I tried to get to everybodies suggestion and what i ended up with sounds off to me but Ill post it and see how its coming.

Heres what i did:

-Put a low pass filter on the guitars and bass
-High pass on the bass
-EQ'd the rattle outta the bass and cut at around 60hz to leave some room for the kick (Was my intent at least...)
-EQ'd the vocals to take out some of the boomyness
-Turned the reverb on the vocal tracks down from 60% room size to 18% room size
-Eased up on all of the compressors
-And hopefully leveled out the drums a bit

To me the guitars seem like they lost their definition,
but let me know how i did!View attachment Broken Stars(2nd mix).mp3
 
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