Southern Rock/Metal Cover

[skiz]

The song is Memories of the Grove by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

tracked everything quite soft to avoid bein too hot, so turn up a little

http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?id=21837

**EDIT: NEW MIX**
http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?id=21891
pushed up bass and did volume automation to try get certain parts to pop more

Questions i have:
Is everything sitting decently together in the mix? Or are frequencies fighting?

Is the low end balanced?

Are the reverbs doing their job but not being TOO noticeable?

thanks guys

 

[dodgeaspen]

Cool tune. I have it turned way down (the wife is in the room) I can't hear the bass guitar. It might just be the volume.

 

[Garrett_Stephen]

whoa

effin solid!

ill be honest i didnt ready past the title. so when i heard a maylene song start i thought i was trippin. it sounds really good. needs vox though. uuhhmm and is there a bass? but other than that very nicely done!

 

[skiz]

thanks man

yeah i really struggle to mix low end.. i dont have proper monitors, i mix through my PA system, and i have no woofer. so sometimes my mixes are way too bass heavy and sometimes non existant lol

yeah man i would love to put vocals on the track, i just dont know any one who can pull it off!

 

[Bulls Hit]

Not familiar with the original, but it sounds fine to me. I like your guitar tones and other than being a little bass lite, everything sits well together

 

[joeym]

Very good tune and performance. Nice drum sound too. Cymbals might be too low. ZZ-Top type vocals would go well for this. Also, you need a proper bass, I can't feel or hear it. Keep working on it!

Joey

 

[jcayer2]

Cool song !!!

I'm listening with headphones. Nice playing, cool tone !!!

During the breaks at around 1:50 and 3:15, we can hear somekind of constant hum or a fan noise

And there is a guitar sound that could be "deleted" at 3:25

Congrats !!!

 

[skiz]

Very good tune and performance. Nice drum sound too. Cymbals might be too low. ZZ-Top type vocals would go well for this. Also, you need a proper bass, I can't feel or hear it. Keep working on it!

Joey

thanks dude!

cool, ill def try push up the highs on the over heads

It is a real bass, not midi or anything, im just really bad at mixing low end with the monitoring set up i have D: but ill be remixing this week, and doing all the level automation, so i can def add more. will re-post the link when its done.

@jcayer2:

thanks!

yeah i havent done any clean up on the project yet. been mainly focusing on gettin the instruments shelved nicely together. But ill definitely be going thru it and cutting out any track where there is nothing being played. Thats the humming i think you're hearing during the break

and ill look into that guitar sound!


thanks for the advice everyone, really wanna make this a good mix and your objective ears can only help!

 

[PoeticIntensity]

Oh yeah... 15 seconds into this and I know I'm gonna love it. Great overall sound.

Yeah, the bass needs to come up lots. probably 8db or more.

Also, I'm quickly noticing that if you layered more guitars, you could beef up the song quite a bit. The guitars sound great, I can just imagine them being doubled or tripled, and getting just a huge wall of guitar sound. Just an idea.

Also, at around 3 minutes, there's a part where snare / cymbal is hit over and over again... I'm noticing the cymbal hit is in the middle every time. It'd sweeten the stage a bit if you alternated right / left cymbal hits...

So... Yeah.. The song just finished. Great stuff, man. Guitars sound good, but in my very subjective ears, they'd sound better if they were beefed up a bit. Bass really needs to come up. Drums sound great. I like your snare sound, too. Sounds... "Maple" to me (which is a good thing)

Keep it up, and find yourself a singer!

 

[skiz]

Oh yeah... 15 seconds into this and I know I'm gonna love it. Great overall sound.

Yeah, the bass needs to come up lots. probably 8db or more.

Also, I'm quickly noticing that if you layered more guitars, you could beef up the song quite a bit. The guitars sound great, I can just imagine them being doubled or tripled, and getting just a huge wall of guitar sound. Just an idea.

Also, at around 3 minutes, there's a part where snare / cymbal is hit over and over again... I'm noticing the cymbal hit is in the middle every time. It'd sweeten the stage a bit if you alternated right / left cymbal hits...

So... Yeah.. The song just finished. Great stuff, man. Guitars sound good, but in my very subjective ears, they'd sound better if they were beefed up a bit. Bass really needs to come up. Drums sound great. I like your snare sound, too. Sounds... "Maple" to me (which is a good thing)

Keep it up, and find yourself a singer!

thanks a lot

the guitars were tracked as follows: One Audix I-5 and one SM57 up close, off axis, and one Behringer C-1 LDC ( ) about 45cm back on axis. Tracked at least two parts for left and two parts for right, left and right guitars were EQ'd differently, some parts have three stacked on each side, so im not sure how many more i could really do. Maybe i should bring them up in volume?

ah man, yeah i should have alternated crashes in that part.. really dont wanna retrack drums tho, took forever to set up those mics!

loving my new snare its actually a Pork Pie Big Black brass snare, but im stoked that you think its sounding warm and mapley.

 

[skiz]

posted a new mix in my OP ^

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Dlt]

sounds really good!

What amp and guitar did you use? What EQ settings if you dont mind me asking.

 

[Tony-bobs]

I still think it needs more bass(I just listened to the newer one). I think maybe the levels could come up a bit more across the board as well, to give it a little more fullness. I think its a really good recording, I just wanted more, if that makes sense?

 

[PoeticIntensity]

thanks a lot

the guitars were tracked as follows: One Audix I-5 and one SM57 up close, off axis, and one Behringer C-1 LDC ( ) about 45cm back on axis. Tracked at least two parts for left and two parts for right, left and right guitars were EQ'd differently, some parts have three stacked on each side, so im not sure how many more i could really do. Maybe i should bring them up in volume?

ah man, yeah i should have alternated crashes in that part.. really dont wanna retrack drums tho, took forever to set up those mics!

loving my new snare its actually a Pork Pie Big Black brass snare, but im stoked that you think its sounding warm and mapley.

Just listened to your new mix, and it sounds fabulous. Yeah... Whatever you did made the overall mix sound much more full.

On the note of your guitars... Interesting that you have so many layers already... I'm wondering if you have them all panned in the same space? If you pan some hard R/L, and then pan some half way between center and R/L, it'll create a bigger sound. I'm curious why it sounds the way it does with so many layers... IMO, it should sound fuller... Hmm...

Anyway... All of that aside, the new mix rocks, man! Great work.

Also - for being a brass snare, dude... That sounds awesome!