Band I recorded over the weekend.

[ffaudio]

I finally got a band in here that I like. Woo.

Anyway. This is the prelim mix that I did yesterday. The toms I think are too loud in a few places (near the end mostly).

The kick is odd. The drum I recorded sounded great and exactly like his kick, but didn't have enough "click" to cut through and be heard easily. I took a really clicky sample and triggered it and high passed it to get just the click coming through. I think I might try duping the actual kick track and trying the same thing.

www.ffaudio.com/music/nla/alongtheline-m2.mp3

 

[ElektricEyez]

Wow! I like it, it's pretty good man. All in all, I'd say it sounds great! The only thing I would say is that the toms are lacking something, not exactly sure what, maybe a little more attack might help them out some. Just a suggestion, you might want to try adding a little bit of verb to that snare, and set your decay to the timing of the song. Doing so might help out those toms.

 

[ffaudio]

Wow! I like it, it's pretty good man. All in all, I'd say it sounds great! The only thing I would say is that the toms are lacking something, not exactly sure what, maybe a little more attack might help them out some. Just a suggestion, you might want to try adding a little bit of verb to that snare, and set your decay to the timing of the song. Doing so might help out those toms.

Thanks for the listen. I have a plate on the snare and toms. I'm actually terrible with reverb so I tend to use little or none instead of a lot and overdoing it and ruining everything. Haha. What would you suggest on the snare and I'll mess around with it?

 

[ElektricEyez]

For me Snares are pretty difficult to get them right where you want them. But with your recording, you have a VERY good starting point. I would experiment with a large room verb, set your decay to the timing of the song and add just a tad bit of pre-delay, but not much. Then adjust the "room-size" knob till it just sounds good. What I attempt to go for is to make the snare sound like its recorded in a nice big live room, but make it so the reverb isn't really noticeable, by that I mean make it so the average listener doesn't know you added reverb, but it just does something to the drum mix, like icing on the cake. I use Static -X Shadow zone as a good reference. Those drums are the real deal, and not sampled, and very well mixed. I would also suggest boosting around 2k-6k on those toms to give them that attack (or click as you refer to on the kick drum.

 

[ffaudio]

Thanks for the advice.

 

[ElektricEyez]

No problem. If you remix it, you should post the remix!

 

[ffaudio]

I'll definitely post the final.

 

[ffaudio]

Anybody else take a listen?

 

[ffaudio]

www.ffaudio.com/music/nla/alongtheline-m4.mp3


There was the final they took.