New stuff from a local band called Blyss, check it out...

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Check out the new Blyss song "Figured".
Practically done but for some minor EQ and level tweaks. The backing vocals sound cool as hell, though. Comments welcome.

www.nowhereradio.com/samplestuff/singles

Be sure to use hi-fi play or download, as lo-fi sounds like ass.
 
Interesting song. Parts of it sound like 311/ hard core.

Back ups are pretty cool. It sounds like there's a track panned right, with a very slight delay panned left, and a little distortion. I tend to do my back ups similarly, I'll have the main vox in the center, with a doubled harmony panned to each side. It's a sweet effect.

Subjectively, I'm not sure I like the snare drum. I don't dislike it, it's thick, but there's some kind of hi-end snap on it or something that is weird. That's just me though. Guitars are nice and thick.

You're right though, I accidently clicked the lo-fi first, and man it sounded like crap. :D
 
Good to finally hear something from you, Tubedude.

The guitar on the left seems like it has a lot of high end which makes the left side stick out more.

I like the snare sound. Very fat.

I seem to always want to hear more guitars on a lot of these mixes.
 
Hey, I've posted probably a dozen over the last year or18 months or so, but all the links are dead. I usually leave em live for a few weeks and replace them with something else.

The weird thing about turning the guitars up in this one... well.. it was a Johnson head that I couldnt get a good tone out of to record. I think it sounded fine in the room, but for some reason I couldnt get a lively recorded sound. THose modelors just dont do it for me. I used the same head on a band called FromWithin (those two bands are best buds, the borrowed and lent equipment between thier sessions) and you can hear it here: www.nowhereradio.com/fromwithin1/singles I couldnt get any punch out of it on thier stuff either. The weirdest things about it, I would turn the guitars up, and they wouldnt get louder, everything else in the mix just got drowned out (too much gain I'm guessing but we turned it down to where the guitar player could barely take it anymore). The other weird thing was, when the guitars are run past a spectrograph, there is a lot of acticity all the way up to, I think 7000hz, and then it brickwalled there. I mean nothing at all past that range, not even a niblet. Must have something to do with the software modeling in the head, but I'm guessing thats why I cant get any punch. Eq'ing that area is impossible since there was obviously nothing there to boost. Ever seen that problem?

Anyway, thats it. From the looks of it, they want to consider this as pre-pro (19 songs total we tracked) and it looks like it wont get any more mix attention, which kinda sucks. Now they are going to go do it all over at a "big" studio.
 
Have you tried putting a high pass and low pass filter on it and rolling them up and down to get a little more headroom and less of anything you don't need? If you're turning stuff up and it's just masking everything then maybe you could try that (or maybe you already have).

The guitars for From Within sound really good. Sounds like they have a little fizz in the high end?

I did a recent recording (not nearly as good) and rolled off the highs of one of my guitard down to about 5k to get rid of some gross ass fizz.

I dunno, something to experiment with if you haven't already.
 
Very interesting. Sounds like Disturbed mixed with Incubus. The guitars sound a bit grainy and a little weak. Harmony vocals sound good. Drums are okay but the snare could be a bit quieter. All in all... Pretty good.
 
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