Hi there, I just joined the forum today for the purpose of learning what I can about metal production and mixing. I am currently mixing a metal piece as a favour for one of my composers (I'm part of a music circle) who we shall call "the client". Prior to this I have never had the opportunity to mix metal in my past, so this is new territory for me. I try to keep my genres as wide as possible and I have some more metal mixes coming up in the future, so I'm wanting to learn all I can during my stay at this forum.
Here is a quick brief about the song:
-Lead vocals are sung by a vocaloid (some of you may be unfamiliar with this). I'm still unsure about the vocal balance and reverb, want to try out some early reflections and higher pre delay instead.
-The arrangements is not overly dense, but a lot of the tracks share similar frequency ranges. I took the liberty of resampling the strings and exploding their triads to counter this, as well as resampling the solo violin as it was too synthetic and lacked dynamics.
-The client asked to have the rhythm guitars mid scooped quite extremely (between 250hz - 1.5khz) so they don't contain a huge amount of pitch information which I personally feel is not good for the song. I've done my best to compromise on that though. I need most advice on the rhythm guitars as they are plaguing me the most in this mix. they were recorded using a guitar box, not sure which one, then amped and contoured using amplitude 3 (by the client).
- I'm content with the drums, but still find that the snare is not quite right regarding its distance from the listener. Need to tweak the length and pre delay a little more I think. I personally feel I did pretty well with the kick, I spent some time to automate the release on the compressor for the double kick sections to get a consistent feel and tone through out the song.
- Considering turning down the solo guitars and violin, but bringing them forward in the mix by easing off on the low pass filters.
- The bass seems to be sitting nicely in the mix, what do you think?
- The mix is not 100% complete, I still have to do some automation here and there on the vocals as well as some EQ automation on the instruments. The master is rough just so I could "impress" the client with what I currently had.
Roughly 70% of this mix was done on a pair of DT990 pro's and a VRM box because I had to do a lot of surgical and mirror EQ.
Here is the mix:
Nine tails rough master
All feedback and criticism is welcome and will be much appreciated, this is my first metal mix so I need to learn everything I can from this experience.
Thanks.
Here is a quick brief about the song:
-Lead vocals are sung by a vocaloid (some of you may be unfamiliar with this). I'm still unsure about the vocal balance and reverb, want to try out some early reflections and higher pre delay instead.
-The arrangements is not overly dense, but a lot of the tracks share similar frequency ranges. I took the liberty of resampling the strings and exploding their triads to counter this, as well as resampling the solo violin as it was too synthetic and lacked dynamics.
-The client asked to have the rhythm guitars mid scooped quite extremely (between 250hz - 1.5khz) so they don't contain a huge amount of pitch information which I personally feel is not good for the song. I've done my best to compromise on that though. I need most advice on the rhythm guitars as they are plaguing me the most in this mix. they were recorded using a guitar box, not sure which one, then amped and contoured using amplitude 3 (by the client).
- I'm content with the drums, but still find that the snare is not quite right regarding its distance from the listener. Need to tweak the length and pre delay a little more I think. I personally feel I did pretty well with the kick, I spent some time to automate the release on the compressor for the double kick sections to get a consistent feel and tone through out the song.
- Considering turning down the solo guitars and violin, but bringing them forward in the mix by easing off on the low pass filters.
- The bass seems to be sitting nicely in the mix, what do you think?
- The mix is not 100% complete, I still have to do some automation here and there on the vocals as well as some EQ automation on the instruments. The master is rough just so I could "impress" the client with what I currently had.
Roughly 70% of this mix was done on a pair of DT990 pro's and a VRM box because I had to do a lot of surgical and mirror EQ.
Here is the mix:
Nine tails rough master
All feedback and criticism is welcome and will be much appreciated, this is my first metal mix so I need to learn everything I can from this experience.
Thanks.
