as you can see i joined the forum quite a while ago and was lurking from time to time. some years ago music and AEing became my secondary hobbys and i almost quit that stuff... now im trying to recover from the break (man im an idiot)
this is my latest mix and it lacks stuff:
http://soundcloud.com/ziltard/ztomix
ive read more intensivly about mixing and related for some time now, but my mixes arent getting really better since some while ago.
the mix was done in an untreated room and mackies hr824 mkii. i cannot treat this room. but from what ive seen with rew there are some major notches at the listening position (112hz and ~320hz, 2,2 - 3,7 khz, and most likely some combfiltering), i think the speaker placement is ok. as reference some really old pc speakers are used, they do a decend job. any pro mix sounds "good" on theese. the lows cant be heard much, but are somewhat subtle. now if i compare my mix on the crappy speakers (and other systems) some things are obviosly:
-lowend sucks
-my mix is kinda scooped
-guitars are weird/suck, are way upfront
-kick is somewhat clicky and is jumping out at certain lines (same goes with toms) (didnt automate anything...)
-bass is simply wtf
-anything sounds retardedly dry (i didnt use reverb on anything but even drums, while having the room mic boosted and compressed a lot)
-and toms are resonanting their ways through...(tried to eq, compress and gate, results are in this mix)
-my playing is sloppy
stuff used:
schecter hellraiser c7 (devin t. tuning, strings are like 2 weeks old, gauge maybe too low, 060 as G) -> emu0404->tse -> revalver -> eq, c4
drums sd2 avatar
bass trillian hardcore-> ampeg -> eq, comp
cant get the guitars to sound any good, if i cut to give more depth -> guitar lacks any mids, did some cuts to remove cab resonance and compressed with c4, but then again guitar sounds too altered/thin even if gentle settings are applied. shit lacks highs but to remove some of the fizz high cut were made at 10,5 khz, (hpf 86 hz or so) while chords sound too distorted, mutes seem not, compressing harder makes stuff only more harsh....and the sd2 kick makes me so much trouble. no samples were used.
im pretty sure some of you guys could help me by pointing out obvious (not for me) mistakes i made during mixing.
any help apreciated
this is my latest mix and it lacks stuff:
http://soundcloud.com/ziltard/ztomix
ive read more intensivly about mixing and related for some time now, but my mixes arent getting really better since some while ago.
the mix was done in an untreated room and mackies hr824 mkii. i cannot treat this room. but from what ive seen with rew there are some major notches at the listening position (112hz and ~320hz, 2,2 - 3,7 khz, and most likely some combfiltering), i think the speaker placement is ok. as reference some really old pc speakers are used, they do a decend job. any pro mix sounds "good" on theese. the lows cant be heard much, but are somewhat subtle. now if i compare my mix on the crappy speakers (and other systems) some things are obviosly:
-lowend sucks
-my mix is kinda scooped
-guitars are weird/suck, are way upfront
-kick is somewhat clicky and is jumping out at certain lines (same goes with toms) (didnt automate anything...)
-bass is simply wtf
-anything sounds retardedly dry (i didnt use reverb on anything but even drums, while having the room mic boosted and compressed a lot)
-and toms are resonanting their ways through...(tried to eq, compress and gate, results are in this mix)
-my playing is sloppy
stuff used:
schecter hellraiser c7 (devin t. tuning, strings are like 2 weeks old, gauge maybe too low, 060 as G) -> emu0404->tse -> revalver -> eq, c4
drums sd2 avatar
bass trillian hardcore-> ampeg -> eq, comp
cant get the guitars to sound any good, if i cut to give more depth -> guitar lacks any mids, did some cuts to remove cab resonance and compressed with c4, but then again guitar sounds too altered/thin even if gentle settings are applied. shit lacks highs but to remove some of the fizz high cut were made at 10,5 khz, (hpf 86 hz or so) while chords sound too distorted, mutes seem not, compressing harder makes stuff only more harsh....and the sd2 kick makes me so much trouble. no samples were used.
im pretty sure some of you guys could help me by pointing out obvious (not for me) mistakes i made during mixing.
any help apreciated
