First Full Mix (Djent)
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KBMoser
Audiophile
well, you know how to balace a mix...... but theres a problem, compared to commercial recordings your balance is wimpy.
youve got no beef in your recordings. clear off all your plugins and set your track effects to normal. leave that bass in on all your tracks in there. thats whats making your guitar sound like a pussy. plus theres too much harsh midrrange.
listen to your song front to end. if it doesnt sound good, somethings off - retrack it ok?
listen to commercial recordings while you mix. i do this so much its not even funny. ill take a 5 minute break from mixing by listening to other stuff i know by heart. listen to adam d mixes or sneaps mixes. you just have to realize how natural a produced mix is, even more natural than yours. once you get that, and respect a proper balace between lows mids and highs youll be in better shape.
youve got no beef in your recordings. clear off all your plugins and set your track effects to normal. leave that bass in on all your tracks in there. thats whats making your guitar sound like a pussy. plus theres too much harsh midrrange.
listen to your song front to end. if it doesnt sound good, somethings off - retrack it ok?
listen to commercial recordings while you mix. i do this so much its not even funny. ill take a 5 minute break from mixing by listening to other stuff i know by heart. listen to adam d mixes or sneaps mixes. you just have to realize how natural a produced mix is, even more natural than yours. once you get that, and respect a proper balace between lows mids and highs youll be in better shape.
Donovan S.
Member
Some pointers:
- Kick has too much low end. Also make sure to turn the kick down a couple of db.
- Snare is kind of quiet and needs to have more smack to it on the harder hits. It also needs some high end.
- Guitars are severely lacking mids.
- The mix as a whole is kinda dull.
Hope this helps you man.
- Kick has too much low end. Also make sure to turn the kick down a couple of db.
- Snare is kind of quiet and needs to have more smack to it on the harder hits. It also needs some high end.
- Guitars are severely lacking mids.
- The mix as a whole is kinda dull.
Hope this helps you man.
Yeah I did that and when I compared mixes it totally discouraged me because I had spent so much time tweaking and tweaking compared mine to someone elses and mine sounded like complete shit. I"m recording DI and then processing through POD Farm 2. I'm just gonna start everything from scratch including my S2.0 TMF kit. PHEW I got some work to do fellas. Gimme some time I'm about to start right now! Thanks for all the tips!!
Okay this is what I've been working on. I didn't do anything to the master. Just my whole mix. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.mp3
MaellaJohn
Member
It is, I left a sticky note on my monitor saying that. So next time I'm doing levels I'll remember that and triple check my ears on that kick then go back to my guitars
Okay less compression more room on the snare, less kick, compressed the toms, and turned the pitch down a little bit too!!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.5.mp3
norris6969
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It is, I left a sticky note on my monitor saying that. So next time I'm doing levels I'll remember that and triple check my ears on that kick then go back to my guitars
Okay less compression more room on the snare, less kick, and turned the pitch down a little bit too!!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.4.mp3
if i were you, i'd bring up some high end in the bass and turn it down and the mix would sound pretty gun
sounds better, might want to cut a LITTLE bit of mids from the guitars and then it'll be right on.
oroinvictus
dangert billy
Yeah something is a little off on the guitars!! Drop the mids, and put a multi-band comp on my guitars. Everything else is compressed so I figured I should compress my guitars also!! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.7.mp3
Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
No way man I love that snare and I spent way too much time on it!! I like that over compressed sound. Plus I added a 57 to my guitar tone IMO this is boss
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.9.1.mp3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9875484/Song 2 Demos/Attempt 5.9.1.mp3
