Knock you self out! (mixing)

@Shadow_Walker: Cool. Maybe a little bit more high-end on the overall mix (barring perhaps the OHs)? I'm not a big fan of the snare sound, but I suppose that much could be personal taste. Vocals are a little boxy sounding. Maybe open them up a bit with EQ/verb/delay. Pretty big low-end from what I can hear. Cool stuff!
 
Hey, thanks! Great advice as usual. I was wondering how you got your snare sound, I think it's particularly the verb I'm liking and also the snap it has so any info on that would be appreciated :)
 
Haha well I think for the snare the credit goes to Mr Slate. I used this as an opportunity to try out some of his kick and snare samples. The Snare is 'Snare 1 Z1' with a decent amount of its Z4 ambient sample mixed in... given that this is a metal track and not a rock one, I thought the decay time needed increasing, so I also sent the snare to Freverb2 to extend the 'pshhhhh' time. On the whole I think it's a lot more ambiance than I'd ever use on a snare otherwise, but it seems to have come up okay all the same. The Z4 is great! It goes hand in hand with plug-in verbs to really pop out of the mix. The snare was replaced 100% (mainly coz I was testing out the samples on the mix, so I did it all real quick). I ran it through one instance of Waves SSL Channel boosting about 3dB on an 8K high shelf, and about 5db at 6kHz with a bell EQ. I also added +12dB with the low shelf, at 80dB.... this could be where all my wasted low-end energy is going, hahah... but I can't help it really, I don't seem to like thin snares. Oh also I think I'm taking off about 3dB with the SSL Channel compressor section.. this along with whatever comp Steven used on the sample itself is responsible for the 'snap'.
 
Hey Ronnie, I've got a blank solo track, and a blank second vocal. Was this intentional or did I miss something?
 
I guess they are tracks for some of the other songs.


The Snare is 'Snare 1 Z1' with a decent amount of its Z4 ambient sample mixed in
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Ah, that explains it. A bit too much ambience indeen when I listen to it now, but otherwise it really has a nice character. Guess Slate's drums are great, too bad I'm broke and have a million things to buy before I get to that. Oh well, it woudn't be fun if it was all easy :)
 
Ok, here's my attempt, the whole mix is sludgy, but I guess that's the vibe of the track, I added a wanky solo, part of the way through for a giggle (my lead skills suck). So yeah, lemme know what you think.

http://www.upload.celtiaproductions.co.uk/uploads/cobhc-classified.mp3

Ok, I updated the link, no lead this time, got a tighter low end I feel, the vocals have quite a lot of verb on them, but I found them to be very boring without it.
 
It does seem a nice place to put a solo :)

The mix is nice but I don't really like how the bass sounds.

Btw here's the first mix I made (before I realised I've imported the tracks into a 44khz session) :D
Actually I kinda like it more in some parts.

link
 
Hey cobhc that is a vary appropriate guitar solo for the song. I dig it.

Would you please post it so myself (and anyone else) can use it in our mixes of this song.
 
midget donkeys said:
Hey cobhc that is a vary appropriate guitar solo for the song. I dig it.

Would you please post it so myself (and anyone else) can use it in our mixes of this song.
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Seriously? It's just me randomly noodling lol. I could probably come up with something better tomorrow.


P.S Ronnie, I wish you had di tracks for this song, I dig the song so much, but I really dislike the guitar tone.
 
Here's my attempt. I also mastered it, and I'm really not that happy with the mastering.... maybe it's pumping a bit too much. Classified_nuclear1.mp3. I also used Slate samples, but only to enhance the original kick and snare. I also noticed afterwards that the snare and kick sound I got sure sound a bit similar to the sn & kick on moonlapses mix, eventhough they are propably different samples :-D. I think I used Sn14Z1 (with Z4 blended) and Kick14Z1. I really like the original snare sound, so i'll try to do another mix without samples.

Has anyone else noticed this with tight tuned piccolo type snares: You can really easily hear when if the drummer is not hitting in the same spot all the time. Enhancing these kind of snares is sometimes really a pain in the ass, because on some hits you can hear the sample much too clearly and on some hits it blends in perfecly... I'm also working on another project where it's the same thing.
 
Hey, thanks a lot for upping this stuff. Very cool. Some very nice mixes here so far...
I don't do a lot of mixing in my computer, but I really dig how versatile it really is.

I did this with headphones using Reaper and the only plugin I used that didn't come with reaper was Gdelay (from the makers of Gclip). Other than that, it's all stock plugins. ReaComp, ReaEQ, etc... No samples.

http://sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk/Sloan/classified.mp3
 
Sloan said:
Hey, thanks a lot for upping this stuff. Very cool. Some very nice mixes here so far...
I don't do a lot of mixing in my computer, but I really dig how versatile it really is.

I did this with headphones using Reaper and the only plugin I used that didn't come with reaper was Gdelay (from the makers of Gclip). Other than that, it's all stock plugins. ReaComp, ReaEQ, etc... No samples.

http://sneapforum.celtiaproductions.co.uk/Sloan/classified.mp3
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Mine was pretty much all Reaper. I think the only non-cockos plugs were Voxengo Elephant on the mix bus.

Your mix sounds like you're pushing way too much compression on the master bus, the whole mix is slow-pumping like crazy. Probably a bit too too much snare bottom signal as well.
 
That Elephant comp is really somethin nice... although I think I've resolved, after this track, to not bother pushing my tracks up to 'commercial' levels, like 9dbRMS. It just kills the entire mix and there's no need for it... I'm gonna try to aim for a little lower and leave the mastering of my commercial products to actual mastering houses!
 
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