Please listen to my mix!

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77, :) very nice. I'll let the pros do the mix comment. This slams. A very good listen this am.
 
I was sittin here with a cup of coffee, firing a blunt right after I got home from work as the sun started to lighten up the sky a little. I wish I had noticed the master fader was all the way up when this kicked off. Pant`s will probably dry in no time at all. : )

Interesting tunage. A little hard for my ears but I like the way it was arranged and some of the panning. That cymbal way out left by itself was a little distracting but interesting. Cool stuff..
 
thanks a lot... the song by the way is "everything you want".... anything else would be appreciated :-)
 
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DUDE!!! The music is good, but you have to sing on key. Keep up the hard work
 
Good playing.

Ditto to the singing in tune comment. It sounds like you have a decent voice. Just need to work on the intonation. Sounds like a decent enough song although not my cup of java.

I heard some timing problems between the bass & drums around 2:30 or so (during the breakdown where you stopped thrashing :D).

Keep working on it and keep posting & welcome.
 
I think its pretty good, but it sounds like you have some phasing problems on the drums. It's hard to tell if it's that or just the mp3, probably a little but of both. In addition, I think the drums should be a little bit more prominent. Especially the snare. And try some autotune please!
 
Cool song, man! Killer arrangement. Nice mix, for a rough. Vocals very audible (good). Guitars-->VOX AC30 amps? They have that 400-500Hz sound to 'em.

Nice "ahh ahhh ahhhh" parts. Really cool song!

Seems to need a few "highs" to get it away from that low-mid "hump" between 300 & 600 Hz... overheads up (possibly compress 'em?) & agree--snare up, too.

For those interested in listening, the song's like Green Day (70 %) crossed w/Foo Fighters (30 %).


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thanks a lot... what an honor, this is a five-star thread!! haha. yeah, i've been fighting with the snare a lot, the drummer is a little inconsistent so at times he's not so even, although he is compressed like crazy. but it's pretty good for the most part, i think. i'm hesitant about making it _too_ much brighter, but i think adding a little brightness will probably help, you're right. i have tried compressing the overheads. it did clear things up a lot but of course it also made the cuts pretty ugly sounding. maybe i will try to find a happy medium. when i tried reverb on the OHs it muddied the whole mix so i can't really cover it up that way. hm.. oh and as for the vocal intonation, i don't think it's too bad at all. autotune doesn't make too much of a difference... i hear a little discrepancy but i don't think it's far beyond natural. plus i hate that cher vibe that everything autotuned seems to have... but yeah, i see where you're coming from.

thanks, you guys have been very helpful and if you come up with more, i am still listening! :-)
 
I think the song is cool too. Nice guitar riff. Maybe the drummer is inconsistent, but I like his style. Some of the harmonies work (the "ahhhs" around 3 minutes), but not all of them. They're not quite working on the "But I will try..." line.

The lead riff is real hot in the mid-range. Almost hurts the ears. Some pitchiness in the vocals. They're real out front though. I might suggest doubling the lead vox (I almost always do :)). Some other effects on the vocals, such as reverb, would polish the sound a bit I think.

The bass needs some articulation, and perhaps needs to be retracked. It's real muffled and gets fairly well buried by the guitars. Try an EQ boost somewhere between 500-800. If it doesn't jump out better, I'd suggest retracking. Maybe roll off everything below 200 hz on the guitars would help bring out the bass a bit too.

Cool song. Trip...
 
- The main guitar riff sounded like my head was strapped to a little practice amp. The other guitar sounded much nicer IMO.

- The bass doesn't sound real and could have been a lot fuller.

- At first I thought the drums were canned, but after listening it sounds like you have a very consistant drummer! The hard panning was a little goofy in headphones.

- I really liked the vocals...I like that kind of "fuck your standards I'll sing however I want" sound. The screaming line worked really well.

Level-wise the mix was pretty darn good...everything had its place. Good work!

Slackmaster 2000
 
Liked your voice, and really liked the chorus harmonies...the lower ones. Thought the drums needed to be in the mix some more or bring the main guitar down a tweed bit. Killer riffage man, i really dig this and that snare sounds really good. I'll be looking for more of your stuff in the future. Thanks..
 
Shred, I like the song. It sounds to me like there is not enough low end in it to me. I like the way the song is laid out, and your panning was put to good use. What is that back ground sound source? It sounds like a Pac Man game or something. good job.
Jason
 
Great tune mate. I'll get back to ya about the mix, (midnight here) but everything sounds pretty good so far :)
 
thanks for all the feedback! you guys have hit on just about every paranoia i have had, haha, but usually for the better.

"pitchiness" haha, that term is harsh, i have never heard it before. let's see, there is a little reverb on the lead vocals. however, when i turned it up it seemed to enrich the mids more than the highs and lows and kind of muddied up the mix. what should the characteristics of good vocal reverb be? Triple M mentioned double tracking. i gave it a shot but i didn't like the effect so much, it actually made the vocal sound less "serious." that's, i'm sure, because i was doing it wrong. when double tracking a vocal, the two tracks are supposed to be panned slightly opposite of each other, right? should they be compressed or does double tracking make compression extraneous?

oh yeah, and the bass. i already tried the 200 hz rolloff, it helps a little. i haven't tried the 5-800 boost, i will give that a shot soon.

the "pacman" noise that drones away during some of the song is a Roland Juno 60 arpeggiating an Fmaj9 in 3 octaves set on square/saw with lots of superfluous noise (like you asked, haha). the "r2d2 explosion" sound at the end is the same setting, but i was whacking the "octave up/middle octave/octave down" switch back and forth and spinning the pitch bend. someone noticed! woo!

and participant mentioned the amps. both are mesas! a dc-5 and a dual rectifier, just not too much top end and the gain is really low. don't they have that nice ring to them? they're so useful and unabrasive when you keep the gain down and don't scoop them.

thanks a lot! any more suggestions=highly appreciated
 
I didn't invent the term pitchiness, but sometimes I wish I had :D.

There is this great thread by sonusman on reverb:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39918

He explains most of the charactaristics of reverberation and then gives some general guidance on how to use them. One of the many key points I took away from it was to roll off everything above 4K quickly. That may help you too. But there's a ton more to it than that.

With double tracked vocals I never pan them. It's just too hard to get them sounding right. I'll pan double tracked harmonies, but I'll pan each part exactly the same amount and to the same side - so they're sitting in the same spot.

Later on...

edit - corrected spelling of sonusman's moniker
 
Sounds good on my monitors :) If perhaps a little dry sounding. That bouncy lead line seemed to jump out a little too much to me(the one in the intro that is repeated a few times), maybe drop some mids a touch or take it back a bit............. but that might just be me.

Good work mate :)
 
Nice. It has that raw sound about it. I'd search try searshig around in the neighborhood of 12k on the snare to bing it out. I could be all wet, but it sounds like you might be able to bring that now popular ring out of it with not much eq or volume change.
There are some out of tune spots in the vocals, but it sort of goes with the song.. Hell it's better than any Third Eye Blind performance I ever heard.


Keep up the good work

F.S.
 
Nice. It has that raw sound about it. I'd search try searshig around in the neighborhood of 12k on the snare to bing it out. I could be all wet, but it sounds like you might be able to bring that now popular ring out of it with not much eq or volume change.
There are some out of tune spots in the vocals, but it sort of goes with the song.. Hell it's better than any Third Eye Blind performance I ever heard.


Keep up the good work

F.S.
 
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