Mixing for a local band, and im getting NOWHERE :(.
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Loren Littlejohn
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Damn that is one big ass cluster fuck.
I say scrap it and start over. Otherwise do the best you can and move on.
I say scrap it and start over. Otherwise do the best you can and move on.
Erik Monsonis
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For the drumagog issues, use the graphical mode. When you run out of "threshold" for it being accurate, cut the audio file, paste the next part in another track with another instance of drumagog, and start working from that section to get drumagog trigger all the hits with a new threshold and so on.
For guitars it's just a matter of EQing them if they're catched well enough.
For guitars it's just a matter of EQing them if they're catched well enough.
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joeritson
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Alternatively, if a hit is too quiet, cut that individual section of the clip and normalize it, that should fix it. Also, make sure your triggering filter is set to the appropriate frequency - if you're triggering a kick from 8khz, you're not going to have anywhere near as much fun as if you take it from 250hz, etc.
Erik Monsonis
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Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
Just for the future:
If your ever handed this kind of crap again, be up front and tell them the drumming is sub par and program it. OR tell him he needs to get it better, this recording is so sloppy it's embarrassing that you have to have your name attached to it.
Moonlight_Seeker
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About drumagog, before crying myself to sleep I would try to put a limiter before drumagog in the chain. All the hits will be about the same strength but the bleeding will be louder so mute the non-played parts... or not. Right now only my left speaker is working. 
But it seems as if the cymbals could be quite louder, but maybe not because of that speaker thing.
About the bass I might think about just muting/deleting the non-DI track and make the DI track sound nice. To make things easier.
I hope your guitars are recorded in DI. If not then I don't know... izotope ozone? Or some kind of frequency exciter??? Not sure at all.
And the musicians are not uber tight so I guess it will never sound very boom pow takatakata tshhhh troui papaw you know.
So imho if the band is recording a demo it's not the worst demo I ever heard. If they are planning on conquering the world and this is their full blown debut album, re-track. Since the tracking is not super I would not waste a LOT of time on that and I would not rip my hair off and stuff.
You need a healthy rabbit and a solid hat to make magic happen.
But it seems as if the cymbals could be quite louder, but maybe not because of that speaker thing. About the bass I might think about just muting/deleting the non-DI track and make the DI track sound nice. To make things easier.
I hope your guitars are recorded in DI. If not then I don't know... izotope ozone? Or some kind of frequency exciter??? Not sure at all.
And the musicians are not uber tight so I guess it will never sound very boom pow takatakata tshhhh troui papaw you know.
So imho if the band is recording a demo it's not the worst demo I ever heard. If they are planning on conquering the world and this is their full blown debut album, re-track. Since the tracking is not super I would not waste a LOT of time on that and I would not rip my hair off and stuff.
You need a healthy rabbit and a solid hat to make magic happen.
No offense dude but that sounds terrible in every way- performances are shockingly loose, tones are poor and don't fit together. In a few parts it sounds like the drums are a completely different song?
Why can't you just re-do it from scratch? Seems to me to be the only answer. I was doing a demo for my own band and convinced myself that I needed to keep going with the original recording instead of starting over, in hindsight it would have been MUCH better if I'd said screw it and just re tracked the whole thing. I'm sure if you explain to the band they'll understand.
Also- Bugera's are nice amps, you should be able to get a killer tone of the 6262- its a 6505+ clone
Why can't you just re-do it from scratch? Seems to me to be the only answer. I was doing a demo for my own band and convinced myself that I needed to keep going with the original recording instead of starting over, in hindsight it would have been MUCH better if I'd said screw it and just re tracked the whole thing. I'm sure if you explain to the band they'll understand.
Also- Bugera's are nice amps, you should be able to get a killer tone of the 6262- its a 6505+ clone
digitaldeath
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It seems that the 'bar' people set for demos in Ireland is pretty low anyways, so you'll prob get away with it but if I were you, I'd work on getting that 'pro' sound in future (Joey, Ryan and brian hood for example seem to get great results with very little).
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Uncle Junior
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The ones who are not contributing to your improvement must be released or banished from your path of becoming good at something.
Jind
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That's some serious Deepak Chopra or Tony Robbins shit right there. "released or banished from your path" you say?
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I got inspired when I remembered yoda from starwars. 
