Two mixes mastered with Ozone

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Both of the songs were mixed in sonar and mastered with ozone (as a real-time effect in Sonar)

The first one is my friend's band, we're only 14 so try not to laugh at the singer's voice, LOL.

The second one is my band's drummer and his brother fooling around, it turned out to be interesting enough to record and add a bass line to, but no vocals. Good mixing practice.

Any mixing suggestions would be helpful, im still trying to figure out exactly where and how much to eq the mix for separation.

Thanks a lot
Eric
 
Good job mixing, I think... it's hard to keep material like that from sounding like complete sonic sludge. Lots of richness and power in the sound. You are definitely on the right track.

By the way, I'm a former Long Islander myself, born 'n raised in Hicksville...
 
it sounds pretty nice.

Very energetic sound. I like it. maybe too much cymbal .

funk on!
 
Pretty cool tune..

It sounded pretty good, but I thought it could have used a little more meat.... the cymbals are a bit loud as Cyan mentioned.. I thought the snare could have been a bit louder also. It really does sound good for the most part...the singing is good... I listened to the second song also and I thought the cymbals were loud again... There is also too much high end IMOP... and a minor drum mistake or two.. The cymbals are tooo loud..

I'm from Long Island too! :D Suffolk County


pretty cool though.

later
sam
 
damn, your only 14?

i actually love the recording/mixing....of course there are always little things i'd change...

but that sounds a lot better then my stuff...damn! ha.

maybe its the soundcard? ha...
 
How did you do it?

This is just great. I am really impressed. I would like to know your setup in recording. What mics did you use and such. Did you record directly into Sonar? How did you mic the drums? All the usual stuff us Geeks like to know. I think you have done a great job. Mostly, I like the tune. The singer does sound young!

Cheers,
Daniel
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Well thanks for all the comments, as for my set-up, its a bunch of stuff that my whole band bought together im not really rich, lol

- MOTU 24i - $600 at guitar center, I really hope someone else caught that deal, cause it costs $1400 on musiciansfriend

- Allen and Heath Mix Wiz 16:2DX - these are the only pre-amps we used, and i tried to use this eq before stuff was recorded as much as possible

- Cakewalk SONAR XL, I only used the plugins that came with it and some free ones off of directxfiles.com, and my computer is a 1.4ghz dell with windows xp

- Izotope Ozone - I think this is the root of my high end/ cymbal issue, the harmonic exciter just sounds so good, I used way too much of it over 10khz

- Mics - My drummer bought a real world six mic drum pack off musiciansfriend.com, definitely check this out, for $700 you get 2 MC012s (overheads and vocals, with a 6khz boost of about 5 decibals on the mixer for vocals), an sm57(snare and guitar), 2 audix d2s(toms), a sennheisser e602(bass drum and guitar)

- Bass used the xlr out on the amp, through the mixer into the soundcard

that's pretty much it, i guess you could say the drum micing was "normal," except all my friends thought i was crazy when I had the drummer take the bass drum head off and move the hole so i could get the bass durm mic right up against the beater, and now my drummers bass drum sound like shit in the room but good on the recording because the resonant head is completely out of tune, lol.

Eric
 
sounds pretty damn good. Are you really 14?? Jesus...

The only thing I would like to hear is to bring the vocal up a bit more.

Tell me about how the guitars were recorded, would you? amps, mics, and so on. Would you?

Cool Tune, can definitely get the crowd goin if at live

AL
 
To record the guitar i used an sm 57 and e602 bass drum mic, i put the e602 on the edge of the speaker cone, and the 57 near the middle, so i had clarity and punch, i mixed those two together into mono, i recorded the rhythm parts, power cords, twice and panned left and right, then used the same technique for lead only left it in the middle.

Eric
 
hmm good ideas...

yeah man - my only complaint is where did you get even the money to buy that stuff at 14! you can work anywhere?

ha

i work fulltime...hardley have enough for my STILL not yet purchased delta 44.
 
Well, the all the stuff comes from a combination of four people's purchases, my whole band bought the stuff, i think the overall price ended up being only a few hundred more than recording professionally would have cost, which is where the money came from, and now we can charge other bands to record.

I do not work, but at one point last summer my guitarist worked at a deli and music store, lucky bastard, for the music store, lol
 
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