FTFD cover I did for mix/mastering practice

[A.H.]

Hey guys, I tracked all this last weekend and have been working on the mix a little bit everyday since. I think I'm happy with how it's turned out so far, but I know there's more that can be improved. This is my first time ever doing any sort of vocals, so any performance tips would be much appreciated.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16210823/FTFD-StrangeFaces-Full-mix3.mp3

newest: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16210823/FTFD-StrangeFaces-Full-mix5.mp3
How's it sounding?

 

[RichMinerva]

First off mate you played it wrong

 

[Ascendant]

There's a lot of room for improvement. Slap a ton of autotune on those clean vocals to begin with. That, or take some lessons or google "how to sing".
Guitars sound really small and thin.

 

[A.H.]

First off mate you played it wrong

I figured it was close enough... I was just looking for something fun to mix and did most of the guitar parts in a single take and moved on, haha I was hoping for more mix oriented feedback. Thanks tho!

There's a lot of room for improvement. Slap a ton of autotune on those clean vocals to begin with. That, or take some lessons or google "how to sing".
Guitars sound really small and thin.

Is anything out of the tune besides the "now"? I've probably been listening to it too much to noticing anything minor at this point Guess, I'll just record all them again once I've practiced a bit more. Are they and the screams sitting well in the mix? Also gonna try quad tracking the rhythms parts and see if it thickens the guitars up in the right way. Thanks!

 

[brandonsaghost]

fatten that tone, maybe increase the hardness on your drums. sound pretty weak, maybe some compression.

 

[rchoi54]

guitars need more gain, lower threshold on the gate, and the drums need a lot of work. vocals should be an octave higher.

 

[oroinvictus]

Guitars could use a bit more brightness, drums need some compression and EQing. Work on that singing.

 

[A.H.]

Ok I went and overdubbed all the rhythm guitars with a higher-gain, higher low end tone and did some adjusting to the drums (limiter on the drum bus and messed with the kick and OH EQ a bit. I also raised the parallel compression a bit).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16210823/FTFD-StrangeFaces-Full-mix5.mp3

I'm going to try and redo all the clean vocals tomorrow. I can almost do them an octave up at this point, so we'll see how that goes.

 

[donimoines]

not guna lie, but i really like the cleans, reminds me of confession cleans, really poppy

 

[Zombietakeover]

Yeh the singing is some of the worst i have ever heard...yeh do a higher octave.....I mean you can still have the lower octave but mix that in with the higher octave.....But first you got to get them in Key if your gonna be layering vocals like that