My bands newly recorded song...critique anyone?

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Hi :)

So I have been recording for about 3 years now...right back to when I was recording drums by standing in front of the kit with a single mic, mixing vocals too loud and at the end of it all falling into a muddy swamp, that was the mix at the end.

Enough backstory, looking for some critique of my mix. I record at home in what is a fairly tinny room, but as luck would have it my small diaphragm overheads do not capture a lot of that! Till recently the drums simply went in as a stereo track, with the 2 overheads, a Seinheisser e385 vocal mic on snare and Seinheisser 602 on the kick. Again I used the e385 for the guitar and vocals and used DI for the bass, all records through a Toneport UX1 (only 2 inputs, but hey it gets a signal in there!) Point is, the drums were subject to one line of EQ, very tricky to mix drums nicely this way!

Anyway let us know what you think...

http://www.myspace.com/ascarletobsession

The song is called "Prevail", should start automatically.

Cheers! :)
 
It sound cool. The lead vocals drop out in the really soft parts, you may want to just manually raise the volume of the parts that drop out like that. I can't tell what you're saying throughout most of the song though.
 
It sound cool. The lead vocals drop out in the really soft parts, you may want to just manually raise the volume of the parts that drop out like that.
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Cheers man, I was thinking much the same...the volume thing kept sticking out to me so that's definitely on the 'fix' schedule.

I can't tell what you're saying throughout most of the song though.
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Haha looks like I have to work on my consonants then!

Any more tips from anyone?
 
Sounds interesting but getting people to critically listen via mspace streamer isn't going to help any.
The song is good & has enough Australianness in it despite the Cure like parts of the vocals.
PLEASE,
set up a Soundclick, song ramp or similar account so that folk can listen to a better streamer &/or download a reasonable quality MP3 to make the listen worth reviewing.
 
rayc said:
Sounds interesting but getting people to critically listen via mspace streamer isn't going to help any.
The song is good & has enough Australianness in it despite the Cure like parts of the vocals.
PLEASE,
set up a Soundclick, song ramp or similar account so that folk can listen to a better streamer &/or download a reasonable quality MP3 to make the listen worth reviewing.
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Yeah that's a good point, it's seems like it messes with the quality a bit.

Cheers for noticing the moderate Australian accent (It sounds pretty dicky when it's overdone :p)

Will do man, cheers for the advice :)
 
On Preveail the mix is a little muddy, could maybe EQ the guitars and bass. Guitars sound good though. Vocals should come more. On Endless war there's something harsh going on in the higher frequencies
 
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