My First Paid Professional Mix

[foundations]

This is my first Full paid mix for an external band. would love to get some feedback on it

Cost them £225 in total over 3 days

- Drums are Superior Drummer with D'gog replacements on the snare and kick

- Guitars are Line 6 Pod HD Pro

- Bass is Ampeg Svx

Vocals Recorded with a shure sm7b

Daw = Cubase
Mastering = Isotope ozone 5

I also helped a lot with the writing of the song. the entire section between 2:13 and 2:43 is written by myself.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15846363/What Lies Below - An Eye For An Eye.mp3

 

[foundations]

no opinions?

 

[anotherpaul]

Guitars are way too loud IMO. Makes the POD-ey mids stick out in an unpleasant way.

 

[FIXXXER]

sounds good but it seems like there is something strange going on in the mix...did you use some kind of stereo widening plugin?

i'd never believe i would say that but the guitars seem a bit too loud in the mix.

music is, well...not my cup of tea, it's missing anything i would consider as catchy.

 

[oroinvictus]

+1 to what's been said already. Guitars are a bit loud and sound a bit mid-heavy to my ears, and they sound unnaturally wide.

 

[nw-productions]

Killer Vocals! the guitar sound is not the best muddy and middy ... both I(!) dont like. But i like the overall sound. Anyways Great work- for 225 pounds its to good

 

[foundations]

yeah i used some stereo widening on the guitar bus well spotted haha. u guys think i should scoop the mids then?

 

[foundations]

?

 

[Redline4]

Imo mids are fine where they're at. Lower guitars a bit and it will be fine. Great vocals too.

 

[foundations]

thanks redline, any one else see no problem with the mids?

 

[kylendm]

Yeah lower the guitars and you might want to consider removing the stereo widening and just panning them 100% L & R.
If they sound a little bit too mono or still not wide enough you can try EQing each guitar slightly differently. Try finding a frequency in say the 2-4k range that sounds ok when raising it a db and then do the opposite on the other side reducing that frequency a db or so. You can do this to the low end too. If you do it very subtly then the guitars can "sound" a little wider.

When getting an idea of stereo field my suggestion would be to just listen to other recordings and listen to where they sit.

 

[JayB]

Sounds good, not a big fan of the guitar sound, but drums and bass sound good!

 

[foundations]

thanks kyle for that EQ tip will use that in the future.