One of a kind

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The clean guitar parts are too bright and get irritating after a while. Not sure if that guitar is intonated properly, either. Sounds a little off. The distorted guitars are very thin sounding. The bass needs to come forward a bit to fill in the sound. Where are the vocals? It definitely needs vocals. The mix itself is clear and relatively balanced (except the bass).
 
Cheers for the reply. I agree that the clean guitars do get a bit much and i actually fixed them in the studio earlier today.
The 1st guitar is also out of intonation, how did you work that out as it only plays frets near the head?
I can see why you think the guitars are a bit thin as the bass isnt backing them up at the distorted bits. Do you have any tips on getting the bass more full to fill the gap? what EQ boosts cuts should i use? The problem is keeping a solid bass sound without it rumbling. I have cut the los and boosted the highs etc.
Any help would be great as im sure i could make this into a good mix with a little help on the bass guitar mixing.
ps the vocals will be recorded on Tuesday and will make the song sound 100 times better songwise.
Cheers.
 
Most of the thump of the bass comes between 100-150Hz. Below 50-60hz are boom and rumble. Try rolling off the lows on both the kick and bass below 60-80Hz. Compress the bass to even out the levels have a relatively quick attack, but not too quick as you want to hear the thump. A multiband compressor, just hitting your problem frequencies, might do the trick as well. Also, check out your monitors. If you can't hear the bass properly, you're going to have problems mixing it. Here are a couple of references about frequencies.

http://www.digitalprosound.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/mixing_excerpt1.htm
http://www.recordingeq.com/Subscribe/tip/tascam.htm

Also, check out these free plugins (VST) if you are mixing on a computer:
Voxengo SPAN - a spectrum analyzer to give you a visualization of your recording - http://www.voxengo.com/freevst/#VoxengoSPANVST
C3 Multiband - multiband compressor - http://www.ismusic.ne.jp/slim_slow_slider/vst/#c3
Baxxpander - A bass expander - http://www.uv.es/~ruizcan/p_vst.htm
 
Thanks alot thats great. Im monitoring on Mackie HR824s. Is it just a roumer that they arent great for bass frequencies?
But im mastering on headphones!! good luck to me!!
Ill taka a look at the links thanks.
 
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