First mix-test from the album - comment please!

[Blue Wall]

This sounds really really great!!!

Guitarsound is awesome.
Good balance between kick and bassguitar.
Same applies to drums; depending on individual taste
- snare could be cutted a little in the low mids and
- toms sound a little flat/brave
Good vocal performance; but i think vocals need some de-essing (listen to the phrase "... how am i supposed to see ...").

Well done!

 

[Erkan]

Yeah, I overboosted the highs before the compressor on the vocal tracks which made it very airy. Was planning on fixing that until next occasion Thanks for the feedback Blue Wall, really good points! What do you mean by toms sounding flat? Like, not enough body/tone or?

 

[Blue Wall]

Well, i try do describe. In german language i would use the word "knackig".
Maybe "punchy" is a comparable phrase.
My personal taste for toms is to find a good balance between a certain amount of transients and the tuning of the individual drum.
Generally spoken: enough attack and bass.

 

[LeSedna]

I guess you're right, it might be psychoacoustic. There is something weird to me or my hearing about the "too-precise" alignment of transient for those notes, it's like all instruments kick in together after the short silences and their transients add up and my brain notices it !

I kinda like the wall of sound you've made there btw!

 

[Erkan]

Well, i try do describe. In german language i would use the word "knackig".
Maybe "punchy" is a comparable phrase.
My personal taste for toms is to find a good balance between a certain amount of transients and the tuning of the individual drum.
Generally spoken: enough attack and bass.

I see what you mean! I thought about it actually.. I'm gonna try making the toms a little bit "rounder".

I guess you're right, it might be psychoacoustic. There is something weird to me or my hearing about the "too-precise" alignment of transient for those notes, it's like all instruments kick in together after the short silences and their transients add up and my brain notices it !

I kinda like the wall of sound you've made there btw!

Yeah I think that's what happens. The timing feels the brain, there is a lot of contrast there (silence vs loudness) which might make it seem like it's pumping.

What wall of sound, which part?

 

[LeSedna]

I'd say Catch 22 00:45 and onwards (in the mp3 you provided), I like the balance, it's got a kind of nu metal quality to it in a good way (not to mid-dy guitars). Its progression sounds good with the major scaled chorus as well, good vibe !

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/585020/Catch_22_clip.mp3

This clip of all sounds the most best to me. I listened all the clips, and everyone had a little thing that i didn't like, but lil by lil you got that one to sound kick ass.
There was absolutely nothing to complain about that one. Really good shit! Awesome singer. I'd have been happy to hear some more clang in the snare