hey guys,
so right now i'm mixing my own EP, and i could use some input and pointers from you guys.
this is still a roughmix, refrain is still missing a few background choirs etc. i mainly worked on the drums and guitars here. i'll retrack the bass too, as i recorded these songs one at a time and the bass sounds quite different between the first and last recorded song.
link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1296348/PANDORA/pandora - so in trouble album roughmix 0407.wav
info:
real drums on this one. kick is 100% replaced with a mix of 2 slate samples. snare is 50/50 real/sample. the real snare is once again a blend of top, bottom, and another top track that we ran through a hardware comp (aphex or D&R, i forgot) during tracking. audix i5 on top, rode nt1 on bottom.
sample blend is a mix of 3 slate snares plus 2 slate ambience/room samples. there's also a compressed to fuck version of the natural snare running in parallel. toms are 100% natural, although i'll likely trigger them with the samples i took from the kit for consistency's sake.
guitars are a blend of 5150 lead channel and lecto run through the poweramp of my engl fireball 100 and miced up. i originally reamped through the fireball but it sounded too similar to the 5150 for some reason. framus 212cs cab with v30 speakers, sm57 and rode nt1 on two different speakers, blended to taste...the nt1 is actually louder most of the time.
bass is just scratch tracks as i already said....right now it's yamaha rbx375 through BoD and juicy 77 for distortion, i'll retrack with an ibanez btb 505 (IIRC) and will likely end up with some sansamp psa1 in the mix....still unsure.
as i said, most of the work went into drums and guitars. i feel the vocals need to sit better/differently - any pointers will be appreciated. right now it's just basic compression (ssl channel), touch of EQ, L1 limiter on the vocals....vocal reverb is bricasti m7 impulse, quarter note delay that's not automated yet....
ah, the whole thing is unmastered too, although i already put some plugins on the 2bus to check how the whole thing holds up against clipping and limiting. right now there's a touch of ssl comp (4:1 30ms attack 0.1s release, 2db GR maybe), slight saturation and a HP @ 30hz on the 2bus nothing more.
thanks in advance!
so right now i'm mixing my own EP, and i could use some input and pointers from you guys.
this is still a roughmix, refrain is still missing a few background choirs etc. i mainly worked on the drums and guitars here. i'll retrack the bass too, as i recorded these songs one at a time and the bass sounds quite different between the first and last recorded song.
link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1296348/PANDORA/pandora - so in trouble album roughmix 0407.wav
info:
real drums on this one. kick is 100% replaced with a mix of 2 slate samples. snare is 50/50 real/sample. the real snare is once again a blend of top, bottom, and another top track that we ran through a hardware comp (aphex or D&R, i forgot) during tracking. audix i5 on top, rode nt1 on bottom.
sample blend is a mix of 3 slate snares plus 2 slate ambience/room samples. there's also a compressed to fuck version of the natural snare running in parallel. toms are 100% natural, although i'll likely trigger them with the samples i took from the kit for consistency's sake.
guitars are a blend of 5150 lead channel and lecto run through the poweramp of my engl fireball 100 and miced up. i originally reamped through the fireball but it sounded too similar to the 5150 for some reason. framus 212cs cab with v30 speakers, sm57 and rode nt1 on two different speakers, blended to taste...the nt1 is actually louder most of the time.
bass is just scratch tracks as i already said....right now it's yamaha rbx375 through BoD and juicy 77 for distortion, i'll retrack with an ibanez btb 505 (IIRC) and will likely end up with some sansamp psa1 in the mix....still unsure.
as i said, most of the work went into drums and guitars. i feel the vocals need to sit better/differently - any pointers will be appreciated. right now it's just basic compression (ssl channel), touch of EQ, L1 limiter on the vocals....vocal reverb is bricasti m7 impulse, quarter note delay that's not automated yet....
ah, the whole thing is unmastered too, although i already put some plugins on the 2bus to check how the whole thing holds up against clipping and limiting. right now there's a touch of ssl comp (4:1 30ms attack 0.1s release, 2db GR maybe), slight saturation and a HP @ 30hz on the 2bus nothing more.
thanks in advance!
