Public Mix Contest #11 !!!!!!

[thajeremy]

Good mix dude. For some reason, it quit on me at about 3:22. Was it on my end, or did it get cut off during upload?
Ed

looks like it got cut off...i started uploading and left the house....ill delete it and re-upload....thanks for listening...

 

[Dogman]

Thanks! I was hoping for a bit more information if you have any suggestions, though.

Sorry, 7string. Blows mine away, so I commented with my only critic.
Ed

 

[thajeremy]

ok....I hope this is the full song...it seems to be fine....and Killer song by the way...i love it...

any comments????

 

[BentRabbit]

OK... Started over and did this one primarily with headphones... It doesn't sound bad through the Edirols, but I'm still waiting on the KRK's...

How does it sound out there?

Rabbit 02

 

[jerberson12]

im in, wait for me

 

[Dogman]

OK... Started over and did this one primarily with headphones... It doesn't sound bad through the Edirols, but I'm still waiting on the KRK's...

How does it sound out there?

Rabbit 02

Much nicer, Rabbit. No real advice here, just listening.

Here is another attempt by me. Made the drums better, but may have buried the dudes voice. Sorry.

Ed

 

[BentRabbit]

Ok, here's my first mix. Nothing special, just a fairly dry mix that I'm still not happy with. But I said I'd have one up in a day or so and today is the 'or so' part. I'm not happy with the snare and a skillion other things so, Chris I'm counting on you to point me in the right direction.

The lead guitar seems to be more 'out front' than everything else in the mix... I like the tone you're getting on it tho...

 

[geet73]

MUCH better. The kick is a little loud. Maybe a little over compressed too. That may be a lot less apparent when you bring it down, though. The lead is really buried, I'd bring it out a bit more.

This is a much better direction, Rabbit.

 

[Strave]

Sounds good Strave.
Good balance cool panning and explorative work with reverbs and compression.

You mastered this track?

Too bad...youll notice that when the chorus comes in the dynamics stay EXACTLY the same. Thats unfortunate.

If you take away all the effects and just listen to the band dry....when that hook comes in the whole mix sorta pops up in dynamics as if it were a live band.
Thats a big deal to me.
Mix to compliment the bands dynamics.

Ill need to hear your mix with out so much mastering going on please.


-Finster

Unmastered, slightly modified version -

 

[geet73]

Unmastered, slightly modified version -

Sounds pretty good. I don't like the gogged kick too much. I think it's a bit too clicky for this. It may just be a little too loud, though. It juts out a bit.

Other than that, everything sounded pretty good.

 

[xfinsterx]

ok, im gonna do some more reviews here.

 

[xfinsterx]

Here's the version I did Tuesday, I've done a bit more to it already but didn't bring the mp3 over to my work laptop for upload. Critiques greatly appreciated.

Room mics are a bit on the too loud side here.
You gotta be careful with those because they can thin your drums out too much.
Acoustic guitar needs to come up, its what pulls the song together especially in the verses.
Some of the bax vox poped out of left field in the speakers.
Perhaps center them a tad more and compress to control.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

Well, I am having a heck of a time wrapping my head around this one - any help is greatly appreciated.

The effect on the main vocal is a tad ear fatiguing.
Cut the 5 to 8k region a tad.
Snare sound was nice and dense tonally, but too distant feeling in the mix to have a good impact.
That distorted guitar thing....there are two channels of it one enters right at the top of the song the other enters in the break.
Split those two tracks into mono.
Anow duplicate the track that enters early, and bump that duplicate forward 15ms. Then pan them out across the mix, and fade them in as fillers, because thats all they are, fillers, not really meant to heard, just sensed.
The other dist guitar track just bring it up the middle when it comes in.

-Finster

 

[jerberson12]

OK guys heres my shot........................
first and final shot.
kick and snare was replace by drumkit from hell using drumagog
eliminated distortion..i dont like it



http://briefcase.yahoo.com/benison_jerberson
click public folder then
click HR-PMC11

XFIN dont forget my feedback thnx

 

[xfinsterx]

Ok, here's my first mix. Nothing special, just a fairly dry mix that I'm still not happy with. But I said I'd have one up in a day or so and today is the 'or so' part. I'm not happy with the snare and a skillion other things so, Chris I'm counting on you to point me in the right direction.

Take all the vocal parts and the lead guitar track and turn them down -3db.
Dont touch anything else though.
Lemme hear what that sounds like 7.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

hope that is not a bad thing because i just bought one of those from Sonixx yesterday...

lol...

anyway...thanks for the comments Fin...here is a link to a not so compressed mix...still not final...

Thats was much better!
Now take the lead gtr and make it the star of the mix when nothing else is happening vocally, and id say your good.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

The first post says you can do whatever to it... as long as you have fun.

Here's a newer mix.. eh?

Bump the drums up just a smidge and definr the bass a llittle better.
Thats far betternow, nice work Geet.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

OK... Started over and did this one primarily with headphones... It doesn't sound bad through the Edirols, but I'm still waiting on the KRK's...

How does it sound out there?

Rabbit 02

That is absolutley 100% improved Rabbit.
I liked the midrangey thing you did on the solo track.
You made the dist gtrs work for the mix.
Vocals are impoved but still a tad bright in the 6k to 8k regions.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

Much nicer, Rabbit. No real advice here, just listening.

Here is another attempt by me. Made the drums better, but may have buried the dudes voice. Sorry.

Ed

Much better in terms on balance.
\However, youll need to take that compressor OFF of the mix please.
Its making the mix pump in a quite unflattering way, and may be be pushing the vocals down too.
Take off the master comp, and rebounce it for me.

-Finster

 

[xfinsterx]

Unmastered, slightly modified version -

I agree with Geet.

Kick sounds like a sample.
Whether it is or not i dont know.
But i do know its a little to loud.
All else is great.
Good work Strave.

-Finster