Melodic doom, need some feedback on this mix.

[Keregioz]

This is a song from a band I'm working with at the moment. The style is melodic doom, or something like that. I used bands like daylight dies and draconian as reference for this mix. Please let me know what you guys think, I'll appreciate any suggestions.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/316805/Immensity/Div_mix016.mp3

update: Some minor tweaks on volume levels, and some EQ on the guitars to scoop some mids based on your suggestions.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/316805/Immensity/Div_mix017.mp3

 

[Keregioz]

Thanks for taking the time to listen man. About the guitars, I'm not necessarily disagreeing that they're muddy or flat tonally as you said, but I don't see why them being DIs has anything to do with it. I mean, I know most people (including pros) record guitar DIs and reamp them later.
As far as the general style of the mix, I don't have much say in it, it was the band's choice to sounds similar to those bands I mentioned. But even if I was, I think I prefer the level of ambiance as it is.

 

[Spectivum]

I would first give more body to the bass guitar, it gets masked now. Then you can refine the guitars, they are quite midheavy (@ searanox, you probably meant the same not that it is midscooped) , would add more highs or presence to make it brighter, and also more lows to help the palm muted parts.
nice work otherwise

 

[Keregioz]

Sorry, by DIs there I meant amp sims. They sound very digital and fake to my ears, especially in the palm mutes - lots of harsh highs and general flatness/muddiness is usually a sure sign of amp and cabinet sims for me, and unless you're using really high-end hardware amp modeling, no software is ever going to sound quite like the real thing. However if they really are reamped then I guess my intuition was off.

Well that makes more sense and I don't disagree in general , and indeed you were right that it is an amp sim .

 

[akarawd]

Personal taste aside, you're close to a balanced mix if you reamp your guitars properly avoiding sims. Also, the clean vocals need
a bit more deifinition - though I'm quite sure guitars are the culprit again.

 

[Keregioz]

So, I updated the mix. Some minor tweaks on volume levels, and some EQ on the guitars to scoop some mids based on your suggestions.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/316805/Immensity/Div_mix017.mp3