What do you think of my mix???

[philboy]

Hello! I'm currenctly working on a small project for a friend of mine who just composed a song and wanted me to record it. It's pretty simple: male voice, two guitars tracks panned left/right, a bass and some piano. I know the performance have to be improved at some points and that sometimes instruments are not so thight together, but what i'm asking is your point of view about the tonal balance and the mix sound overall. For some reason i find the voice not sitting well in the mix no matter if i increase or drop the volume.... Here's the setup:

-Voice to NT2 microphone (signer 6 inches from mic with a pop filter) to a Presonus Eureka preamp (dry)

-Seagull M6 Cedar GT Guitar via AKG C451B mic (12 inches from 12 th frets ) - two mono seperate tracks hard panned left - right (no EQ)

-Piano plugin

So that's it. I think that the tracks themselves do not sound too bad but together they seem not to "blend" well, in paticular the voice.

Any constructive tips, suggestions, comments appreciated.

here's the link :

http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=2942

Thanks

Phil

 

[Ford Van]

No offense, but shouldn't this be in the MP3 Clinic?

Where is the piano? I hear two acoustics and a bass guitar, but no piano.

I can really hear a compressor pulling down on everything when the vocals go. I don't dig that.

The bass sound a tad "boomy" to me. Sounds like it could use a little cut around 100Hz, and some boost around 500Hz to make it a tad more articulate.

Okay, there is the piano! The piano sounds a little "stiff". The tonality is a bit "dark" and sort of game away that it was a digital piano. I would try adding some highs to it, and adding some reverb to give it a bit of ambience.

The acoustics sound nice and clean. The vocal sounds clean too, but the compression that is triggered by the compression really kills the whole mix.

Not too bad overall. I didn't understand a single word of it, but what the hell!

 

[Docaroo]

Everything was pretty solid (bass is definately a bit boomy) UNTIL the piano.

The piano really doesn't work in there, it sounds like a windows GM midi piano lol! Definately try give it some reverb or something! It's way too flat...

But good work on the rest!

 

[philboy]

Thanks evryone. I really appreciate your coments. First you're right i should have posted in "MP3 clinic", sorry about that. Anyway, i will try to add some definition on the bass and some "life" to the piano. Regarding the compresson i'll see how i can tweak the attack/release/ratio settings to suit the mix better.

Thanks!

Regards,

Phil

 

[Docaroo]

what piano plugin did you use matey?

 

[philboy]

what piano plugin did you use matey?

This is from NI Kontakt library "August Foerster" grand piano which actually sounds very sweet, at least in solo, but it maybe because it's too dry. I will add some reverb and see... (note that there is no reverb on any track of the mix...) I agree that with this mix it's probably not the best choice. I might change it with a sound from my Yamaha Motif keyboard, which have "brighter" piano patches.

Phil