new Carrier Flux track. opinions on mix?

[Carrier Flux]

http://www.carrierflux.com/carrier_flux-album5-01_mix3.5.mp3

I just finished a new Carrier Flux track, and I was hoping to get some opinions on the mix. I know the guitars are muddy and lack presence, I kind of fucked up with the mic placement...other than that any thoughts?

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

Can you add highs to the guitar now? I think it sounds pretty good except for that.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Really cool song. Too bad about the guitars, what amp did you use?...Vox are awesome...In my headphones the bass was pretty muddy too...cool track!

 

[Carrier Flux]

Really cool song. Too bad about the guitars, what amp did you use?...Vox are awesome...In my headphones the bass was pretty muddy too...cool track!

I used a mesa rectifier preamp and mesa 20/20 poweramp through a bogner 1x12 with vintage 30. I don't know if it's just my v30 or all of them but it has this absolutely unacceptable shit going on around 5khz that I just can't get rid of by mic placement alone without killing the topend altogether. so this was the result..heh. I just ordered an eminence governor to replace the v30 so I'll see how that compares. maybe I can mic in some more top end using a different brand speaker.

the bass consisted of 3 takes for every part, one clean, and two run through a pro-co RAT. the dirty parts were panned 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, with the clean bass center. all that shit going on is probably the cause of the mud. maybe I'll turn up the clean bass and bring down the dirty takes a bit to make things sound cleaner down there.

 

[Omega_Void]

Anyone cribs their avatar from Egon Shiele is cool in my book!
Good track, kinda twisted atmosphere to it - me like!
I had a go at cleaning up the EQing, boosted the levels a bit so it sat better with other tracks on my WinAmp playlist.
The snare suffered a little from the boosting but it's a bit more listenable now on my speakers.
Hope it's not rude to fiddle with your work - probably nothing like how you wanted it to sound! But I'd be interested to hear your reactions.
http://download.yousendit.com/5DF76E1D61C9B14D
Keep 'em coming, dude!

 

[Carrier Flux]

Anyone cribs their avatar from Egon Shiele is cool in my book!
Good track, kinda twisted atmosphere to it - me like!
I had a go at cleaning up the EQing, boosted the levels a bit so it sat better with other tracks on my WinAmp playlist.
The snare suffered a little from the boosting but it's a bit more listenable now on my speakers.
Hope it's not rude to fiddle with your work - probably nothing like how you wanted it to sound! But I'd be interested to hear your reactions.
http://download.yousendit.com/5DF76E1D61C9B14D
Keep 'em coming, dude!

hey man, thanks for giving a shot at mastering my track it's really cool to me that you did that.

my impression is that your mastered version sounds a bit too "crunchy" to me. however the song now finally sounds sufficiently bright, whereas the original is very dull.

what kind of curve did you put on it?

thanks!

 

[Omega_Void]

Howdy Mr Flux! Sorry I'm a bit slow getting back to you - my online time is hideously limited at the moment, goddamnit!
Wasn't really a serious attempt at mastering, I normally just mix into a limiter, with maybe Vintage Warmer or something also. I know cock-all about mastering something that's already been mixed, so it was just 12-minute fudge-o-rama!
I did it in FL Studio just 'cos that's what I was playing with at the time. Chain was:

1. GranComp (freeware VST plugin from BuzzRoom www.x-buz.com)
2. Baxxpander (by Elogoxa, more freeware)
3. Fruity Parametric Eq
4. BuzMaxi2 (BuzzRoom again, discontinued but still downloadable)
5. Voxengo Elephant

I did a jpeg showing all the settings:http://download.yousendit.com/EF344FA00BD9DE7D
The BuzzRoom plugs can grainy things up, probably the source of the additional crunchiness.
Hope this is some use to you, I'm liking this song more every time I listen to it, it really deserves a kickass mix!