The Damned's "Neat Neat Neat" by my band - mix from live multitrack.

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My punk band The Shambollix played this gig a couple of weeks ago and the chap on the sound desk told us afterwards he'd recorded the whole gig to multitrack. Unfortunately for us he had gates on some of the tracks and they weren't set up right. The kick drum is all over the place and our drummer certainly doesn't play like that. I think he had the threshold set too high and the effect is printed to the track.

Anyway, I mixed this track and I just wondered what you lot thought of it. :)



Below is my final mix after all constructive criticism taken on board. :)
 

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Given the circumstances I think this sounds cool. Thanks for sharing man. :)
I'm not getting much bass but I don't know what you had to work with.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Given the circumstances I think this sounds cool. Thanks for sharing man. :)
I'm not getting much bass but I don't know what you had to work with.
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You're right. I was working so hard on the kick, I lost the bass. Ah, well! :D
 
Haha! Yeah. Much better. Maybe too better? Still....some kind of better. :)
 
Listenin to Mix 3....

Damn that's really good. Very accurate to the original. You even got the guitar dynamics down pretty cold. You old geezers are keeping it alive. :)

The mix....I like pretty much all of it but the kick drum. It's got a ton of sub-low woof in it but not much else. It's like I can hear the rush of air hitting the mic. It's so weird the woof almost sounds like it's coming before the attack. I'd bring it up a little, and roll off the way way lows, like 60 and under. But if it's a bad kick track like you said, just leave it.
 
The bass seemed fine in mix 1 but 3 def has more and that's cool.
I'm inspired to drag out the album and play it.
I'm stoked someone is keeping these things going. Do you do New Rose? With voice intro?
The 1st era of the Damned was their best and you've captured that nicely.
The mix - well raw material wasn't perfect as you say but there's nothing to be embarrassed about either.
I like it but fixing the kick would be grand.
I doubt, outside their BBC sessions, the damned scored a better live recording.
 
I really love this kind of rock riff with the power chord stab. It really rocks man. Lots of energy.
Love it.
 
Greg_L said:
Listenin to Mix 3....

Damn that's really good. Very accurate to the original. You even got the guitar dynamics down pretty cold. You old geezers are keeping it alive. :)

The mix....I like pretty much all of it but the kick drum. It's got a ton of sub-low woof in it but not much else. It's like I can hear the rush of air hitting the mic. It's so weird the woof almost sounds like it's coming before the attack. I'd bring it up a little, and roll off the way way lows, like 60 and under. But if it's a bad kick track like you said, just leave it.
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Wow, Greg - thanks very much. What you've picked up on is exactly what we're going for. Agree about the kick drum, it's been a real struggle, but I did another mix last night and I got somewhere nearer. I swapped my compressor plugin (reacomp) for the Kjaerhus master limiter (strange choice, seemingly, I know) It brought up the missing kick beats seemingly from nowhere, then I pulled out my artificial eq boosts as you mentioned. It sounds much, much better. Will post tonight after work.
 
rayc said:
The bass seemed fine in mix 1 but 3 def has more and that's cool.
I'm inspired to drag out the album and play it.
I'm stoked someone is keeping these things going. Do you do New Rose? With voice intro?
The 1st era of the Damned was their best and you've captured that nicely.
The mix - well raw material wasn't perfect as you say but there's nothing to be embarrassed about either.
I like it but fixing the kick would be grand.
I doubt, outside their BBC sessions, the damned scored a better live recording.
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Thanks so much Ray - I assume you're a fan? The Damned feature a lot in our repertoire, as do the Clash. There's just something incredibly honest about the sound those two bands make. We have New Rose, Love Song and Smash it up (hopefully done with the same energy and attention to detail), plus White Riot, Complete Control, English Civil War, Safe European Home and I Fought the Law by the Clash.

Your comment about the Damned live recording is extremely flattering, but we do try hard to do it the best we possibly can. :)
 
jimistone said:
I really love this kind of rock riff with the power chord stab. It really rocks man. Lots of energy.
Love it.
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Thanks, Jimi - I thought this sort of rock might be off your radar! Much appreciated comments. :)
 
Listened to mix #3.

I love the performance. You guys are a real good live band.

Mixwise, I thought it generally sounded pretty good. I'd lower the bass a tick or two and raise the rhythm guitar a tick or two. I know the bass kind of drives the track - I think it would still do that even if it were lowered a bit. You might be able to nudge the kick up a bit.
 
TripleM said:
Listened to mix #3.

I love the performance. You guys are a real good live band.

Mixwise, I thought it generally sounded pretty good. I'd lower the bass a tick or two and raise the rhythm guitar a tick or two. I know the bass kind of drives the track - I think it would still do that even if it were lowered a bit. You might be able to nudge the kick up a bit.
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Thanks, Triple M. :D Based on everyone's constructive criticism, this is my final attempt. :)
 

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I didn't A/B it with Mix #2. But I didn't really hear much difference. I'd still like a little more rhythm guitar (especialy on the left). Still sounds good. Just want more guitar.
 
It's pretty good man. It sounds how it should I think. Especially for some live punk rock. I think it could use some loudness and pump to it though.

EDIT actually I think Neat Neat Neat (Live3).mp3 sounded better, just needs a bit louder kick. The last mix lost something along the way.
 
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