Can I just ask you one last thing? if you compare this flac song from Envy, do you see the same issue? I used this a s a reference track, to me the volume seems the same as mine.
Opinion on my MIX?
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rob aylestone
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That flac has also been normalised to 0dB like yours but is NOT distorted. It's open and clear and nice sounding. It is also rhythmically spot on - you hear the guitar intro and you can tap your feet in time with the guitar and when the drums come in they come in dead on the hand clap you have been doing. Your intro is at a different tempo and when the drums come in, there's a kind of stutter because as a listener you expect that downbeat to hit the mark, and it misses - then you discover it's also at a different tempo.
The out of tune note is the repeated F - it's flat, and because it repeats it's very obvious.
We're not talking about being out by a few millisconds - of course you don't want a robotic sound, but it's just out of time - the drum fills are all over the place and it doesn't have the glue this kind of music has. The example you used shows how the timing works - can you hear where your timing slips. Did you play to a click? I hope you didn't because if you did, then that's a big issue to solve. My guess is you played the quieter section at a different temp to the one you picked for the song as a whole. How do you record your drums? Again - do you play to a click, or some kind of grid? Many drummers lick their kick and snare quantised, but not their fills - how did you do it, process wise - because something you are doing is throwing you off - and maybe the problem is lots of small issues put together - were the guitars too hot when you recorded them, and you just dropped the faders. Do a bit of Googling on LUFS - loudness is not really about maximum dB any more - the audio file you used as an example? I'd be very surprised if a commercial recording had maximum levels of 0dB - that would be considered crazily loud now and totally unnecessary as itunes, youtube and the others would detect it and 'fix' it. How did you get that clip?
The out of tune note is the repeated F - it's flat, and because it repeats it's very obvious.
We're not talking about being out by a few millisconds - of course you don't want a robotic sound, but it's just out of time - the drum fills are all over the place and it doesn't have the glue this kind of music has. The example you used shows how the timing works - can you hear where your timing slips. Did you play to a click? I hope you didn't because if you did, then that's a big issue to solve. My guess is you played the quieter section at a different temp to the one you picked for the song as a whole. How do you record your drums? Again - do you play to a click, or some kind of grid? Many drummers lick their kick and snare quantised, but not their fills - how did you do it, process wise - because something you are doing is throwing you off - and maybe the problem is lots of small issues put together - were the guitars too hot when you recorded them, and you just dropped the faders. Do a bit of Googling on LUFS - loudness is not really about maximum dB any more - the audio file you used as an example? I'd be very surprised if a commercial recording had maximum levels of 0dB - that would be considered crazily loud now and totally unnecessary as itunes, youtube and the others would detect it and 'fix' it. How did you get that clip?
LazerBeakShiek
Rad Racing Team
It sounds pretty good to me. The unmastered mix would not play..
So you make those EQ shapes, and place the microphones and that is the sound you get in the DAW? What amps and mics?
So you make those EQ shapes, and place the microphones and that is the sound you get in the DAW? What amps and mics?
I didn't record with an amp! but with an amp sims plugin! all I used to record thi s is a laptop, an external audio interface, a DAW, programmed drums plugin and my guitar, this is it.
mm ok, i might go to a friend studio and look at all these things. thanks a lot for your tips.
