Would like help on mixing

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Hey all. OK, just looking for some input. I'm using Cubase, with pretty much all the plugins available to record my band, which is hard rapcore (think Rage mixed with Sabbath mixed with DK). I'm trying very very very hard to achieve one particualr quality with the recordings. I want, no, NEED the airyness and openness that is on Tool's Anemia. When I listen to that CD, everything is just perfectly placed, and it's like you can just climb inside the track, light a smoke, and kick it there for days with plenty of room to move around. If anyone can shoot ideas my way on how to achieve that, I'd be in your debt forever. Now, I don't want to sound like Tool, nor would I want to cold copy the sound of that album cause I'm looking to find our own sound. But you just can't beat that full, roomy sound. Right now, my mixes are cool, but a little muddled on the low end, need better bass and kick defenition, and I'm trying to preserve the crunch of a distorted guitar without making it sound flat and wimpy. Help help help!!!!
 
Well I don't know about the group you are talking about but let me see if I can help you in very general terms.

The freq. that clouds the kick drum is between 200-600Hz so try to cut at 300Hz. Then bost the lows at around 75-150Hz. then to give it more attack boost 4kHz. this will give you a good kick with lows clear and not mud.

Bass -always track less lows then you think is needed. ( you can later bring them up in the mix process.
roll off 40Hz - not really heard
boost around 80-150Hz ( carefull not to boost same freq like kick drum ).- for low end.

if Bass sounds muddy then cut lower mids
at 250-500Hz.

between 700-1200Hz - will help define string pluck giving you a more defined pitch.
2-3kHz ives you upper clarity.

Guitar- cut 100hz ( so not to conflict with bass).
200Hz is the muddy part -try to cut in order to expose lows and cler highs.
boost 250-300hz - adds punch as does
500-600Hz ( there is most of the body of the guitar)
a boost at 2.5-5kHz will give also more defenition..

Eq can help give space as can panning,
no overuse of reverbs, good compression
etc...

Can't get into all the items but I hope you can experiment and try out some of these
things and hopefully they will help you out
Good Luck
 
im curious to hear your band , and you sound like you know your stuff a little.. see if you can post an mp3 of your band in the mp3 forum and maybe we can give you some better advice...

- eddie -
 
Hey Spoogy,
Sounds like your music is right up my alley...
I have heard some stuff off of that tool album... I'm not a big fan of their stuff and their production is a bit sterile for my tastes AND their sound is gonna be hard to get in a home studio with cheap mics and gear...
Maybe you should shoot for more of raw "Rage" type sound...
Check out my stuff at www.mp3.com/Mofocult

Later
 
Hey all. Thanks much for the replys. I agree, the Tool album is a tad sterile, but the way they isolate the instruments is unbelieveable!!!! If you'd like to check out the type of stuff I'm doing, you can get mp3's at www.lostidentity.com. The tune Complete Conformist is prolly the best up there. I would go for the Rage type sound, but we allready have too many similarities with them...and biting on their type of mix/sound wouldn't fly in my book. Hehehe. Thanks for all the advice so far...I'm still very very new at all this (2yrs expirence with decent gear) and I'll try anything. Please feel free to Email me if you'd like at Spoogy@ix.netcom.com, but posting here would be better, as somone else might have the same questions as me. Thanks again!!
 
Where are the song, there ain't no link on your page to access them?!?!?!
 
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