Looking for a spot of help (YOU KNOW WHAT IM GOING TO TYPE HERE)

[RichMinerva]

if anyone has any advice bar turn the vocals up that would be lovely

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3320336/The Obsolete - Encounters.mp3

 

[Severu]

Hey, first impression is that the snare is really buried in the mix and that the guitars are too loud.

My $0.02.

 

[picklesnatcher]

Dude this mix is pretty good! The drums are lacking a lot of power though. If the snare and toms were more punchy that would give that edge to the mix.
Kick sounds pretty solid. Drums overall could be a tiny a bit louder. Love your guitar tone though, what setup do you have going for that?

 

[picklesnatcher]

And yeah guitars are a bit to loud like Severu said! ^^^^

 

[RichMinerva]

Dude this mix is pretty good! The drums are lacking a lot of power though. If the snare and toms were more punchy that would give that edge to the mix.
Kick sounds pretty solid. Drums overall could be a tiny a bit louder. Love your guitar tone though, what setup do you have going for that?

guitars are just Lecto with podfarm's TS boosting it

thanks for the tips guys, thought im pretty lost on how id make my drums bigger i've been having issues with that

 

[picklesnatcher]

Hmm. Well what are you running for your drums? And what do you do to them when you mix them?

 

[RichMinerva]

god damn what dont i do to them haha,

using superior 2 with blended SSD samples, paralel comp the works :/

 

[picklesnatcher]

Damn, haha it seems like you are doing everything you should....
Do you have problems getting the volume of the drums up in your mix at all? Obviously that will make them shine a little more...
and then in the kick and snare, scoop out the mids.. (snare- minus a few decibles around 500-600hz, boost 180-240 for some body, 2-4k for that nice crack)
compress the snare on an indivual track....
Uh.. you probably do all this haha.

 

[RichMinerva]

Damn, haha it seems like you are doing everything you should....
Do you have problems getting the volume of the drums up in your mix at all? Obviously that will make them shine a little more...
and then in the kick and snare, scoop out the mids.. (snare- minus a few decibles around 500-600hz, boost 180-240 for some body, 2-4k for that nice crack)
compress the snare on an indivual track....
Uh.. you probably do all this haha.

ill give the eq tips a shot i always tend to forget to scoop some mids out of drums that don't even touch those frequencys haha

 

[picklesnatcher]

That can make a snare stand out man! of course that's what I use on my snare.. It may not work for you you know?
Thats a general idea of where the "sweetspots" and "notsosweetspots" are on it.
For the kick... depending on what kind you have boost whatever lows you like on it, nothing above90Hz and scoop out 200 and then 800. Boost some hi ends on it between 2k-3k for click 4-8k for some air.
Uhmm.. yeah. Thats all I can think of for EQ's

 

[picklesnatcher]

Oh and a general rule of thumb for me... Boost wide and cut narrow.

 

[RichMinerva]

Oh and a general rule of thumb for me... Boost wide and cut narrow.

cheers dude, i'll have a play and post an update at some point

 

[picklesnatcher]

Alright man good luck, I will do my best to follow up on your thread!

Check out one of my mixes if you have the time. It's in this thread... I need opinions but no one seems to like my thread. haha
cheers!

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...ds/654966-mixing-tips-song-im-doing-help.html

 

[HollowmanPL]

I just fuckin' love you voice

Try to use sonixmaximizer for more bright vocal or add some mid freq.

Have no idea how to help you...

 

[Mago]

Hey, first impression is that the snare is really buried in the mix and that the guitars are too loud.

this
also very heavy compression going on in the mix in generall

 

[RichMinerva]

this
also very heavy compression going on in the mix in generall

It isn't really compressed that much at all :/

I'll have a look into it

 

[RichMinerva]

I just fuckin' love you voice

Try to use sonixmaximizer for more bright vocal or add some mid freq.

Have no idea how to help you...

Thank you

I'll try some stuff out

 

[HollowmanPL]

it has a hard compression but in my opinion this kind of music needs heavy compression.
after listening to this clip again I think you should turn down guitars a little bit and make whole mix brighter.

I'm mixing "FAWK MIXING TIME..." song again (damn this song is so cool...), so I'll see what's going on with vocals...

 

[RichMinerva]

it has a hard compression but in my opinion this kind of music needs heavy compression.
after listening to this clip again I think you should turn down guitars a little bit and make whole mix brighter.

I'm mixing "FAWK MIXING TIME..." song again (damn this song is so cool...), so I'll see what's going on with vocals...

How would you suggest I go about making the whole mix brighter? I genuinely wouldn't know where to start, I've not had a lot of practise if I'm honest haha

 

[oroinvictus]

Definitely bring the whole thing up first. It's a bit quiet. Kick needs to be more poppy and punchy, compress the snare and EQ it to keep it from getting lost in the mix. Same goes for the toms. Adjust guitar volume to taste.