Need help with strings. Symphonic Black Metal

[SirLucasTheGreat]

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/714011/Dead Star Eclipse.mp3

I feel as if I can get the guitars and synth to agree with each other a whole lot more than what I have going right now. Can you guys here anything tonally which may be causing the strings and guitars to clash?

 

[Damphire]

I personally like the mix. If you want make the guitars and strings "agree" more maybe you can try running both "tracks" through the same bus and apply a maximizer or something.

Just one thing about the mix, the ride on the final riffs sounds very machine-gun

 

[SirLucasTheGreat]

Thanks a lot man. Yeah the ride could use quanitizing and some velocity adjustments but I was lazy for this mix because I have to freeze my drum track so that my CPU doesn't get bent over the table.

 

[The Crystal King]

Sounds cool man, very powerful stuff..

What helped my synth to sit in the mix was just panning it a little bit more. In some cases I would have maybe a string synth panned maybe 50% or less to the left, and a different sounding synth panned to the right. They should not be panned to the exact same % as the guitars imo, try to give them their own place in the mix and see how that works.