Southerny Metal song mix review

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Not the kind of thing I would listen to but oh well. Is there a bass in this? If so, I can't hear it. Also for this style of music, your mix lacks power in general. Just my humble opinion sir
 
I agree that it lacks power. It needs more bass and slightly louder drums. IMO it needs more punch. The guitars seem to be good, but the rest of the rhythm section is too far in the background. I think metal should be in your face, but this is kind of the opposite. I think if you made it more punchy it would be a cool song.
 
As a fellow metal head who has heard down and coc, which I can totally see are influences on you, bring the bass in there as the previous posters stated. The kick could come up alittle, it sounds as if you put a low cut on pretty high on the guitars too. I would say probably what around 200-250hz? It is lacking that low punch from the guitars. Did you double track the vocals? If not, you put on alot of delay and reverb. If that was the effect you were going for that is fine I suppose, bring out alittle more presence in there for the guitars and vocals as well. Bring in that bass to fill in the sound alittle and it would be a killer recording.
 
Thanks for the tips everyone! I know Metal isn't for everyone so I appreciate the comments and criticisms. But it's in my old blood and seemingly always will be;) Anyway, I brought up the bass and drums(also bumped the kick a bit). As for the guitars, they are pretty dry. Just a touch of reverb. It could be the rig and recording equipment I used at the time. I did multi-track the VOX, and I think your right Nathan about the reverb/delay, so I took those down some.
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Just took a listen... Black Label Society anyone?! Right up my alley! Killer tune... Anyway, for the mix... The drums are buggin' the hell outta me--specifically the snare. Did you record the bottom of it? If so, bring that up and add a touch of reverb to fill it out--it seems too dry to me. Also, I can barely hear those overheads; bringin' them up will definitely fill the mix out some more. Everything else seems good to me. Keep at it!
 
Yeah that snare is buggin me as well. It's very dull and dry, needs more of a crack to it. My preference also would be a bit more weight on the kick. You could parallel compress the whole drum bus to bring up the power. Guitars sound good and your vocals are great
 
Actually the raw tracks here are good enough for a pretty solid mix, you just need to use more compression on the drums and the mix in general, and then do it in stages. Compress each individual drum until each individual drum sounds good, then bus the drums together and throw some vintage style compression on everything with a low ratio - 1.5:1 - 3:1 ratio with a fairly slow attack and slow release - get it to where the gain reduction is about 3 - 5 db on every snare hit. Then after that, make sure you have a compressor working on your master mix bus.
 
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