My first mix ever. (melodic hardcore with groovedowns)

[DudeBro]

My first attempt at a mix. It's definitely not as big of a sound as I was aiming for. Can't get anything to sit well or sound good in the mix. Some of your guy's opinions/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Drums are AD. Guitars are PODfarm.

EDIT: working MP3 version

 

[professorlamp]

404
also, you'll get a lot more crits with mp3 as we dont have to download it

 

[DudeBro]

Alright i'll render it as an mp3 real quick. Sorry about that.

 

[DudeBro]

Shit. Here it is.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9264445/Promises demo second mix.mp3

 

[metalfanat1c]

What the hell is a "groovedown?"

 

[Ganks]

I really like the song.

Where is the bass guitar?

 

[gebgebgeb]

nice job man. better than all of my mixes. theres a definite lack of bass though. theres a decent free amp bass/sim/detune thing out there on the internet. i can't remember what its called though.

one of the first 808's in the song sounded really off for some reason (right at about :56).

other than that, good work. got some pretty groovy break downs. which is what i assume a groovedown is haha.

 

[DudeBro]

Wow thanks guys. Hmm, I must be doing SOMETHING right haha. Well, here's another mix I just finished.

Brought up the bass and did some major EQing to it. Changed a few things around. Also added a few vocals to see if I could get them to sit well.
Tell me what you think.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9264445/Promises demo second mix.mp3

 

[Ionei]

I thought I already commented this, hmm.
Mustn't have worked.


Dig the fuck out of the song a lot.
Fix up velocities of those cymbals man.

 

[DudeBro]

Thanks man! I'm glad you guys dig my tunes :]

Yeah, I think I might have compressed the overheads a little too much. Maybe I'll EQ them a bit to brighten them up. I'm going to make another mix for the drums tonight.

 

[Seth Munson]

is the bass just a DI turned up?

 

[Matt.CL]

drums sounds midi to me, work on em

 

[DudeBro]

is the bass just a DI turned up?

No but it probably might as well be. I can't get a good bass tone to save my life. Though, it would probably help if I weren't using a shitty bass with old strings.

And when I rendered the drums, they were all on one track. So I couldn't pick separate pieces of the kit and process them. My first big mistake.