New memeber - Critique my mix
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Nostalgiaplatz
So why not moving?
I've only listened to evolve... and it sure sounds great! I wonder if I will ever gonna make such a nice production. Was this a home production? one of the crash or splash cymbals sound a bit to equal/loud, are they sampled?
Simon_Empyrios
empYrios guitar master
Hi.
Thanks guys!
Im studying sound technology at LIPA in liverpool an this was tracked there. It was tracked onto a tascam mx2424 and then synced with a mac running a digi 001 to get it into protools.
It was all mixed at home in tools using basicly just the waves platinum bundle, and a couple of extras I've picked up. It was mixed on my hifi speakers which is kinda annoying so I sent it to Martin at White House studios for mastering due to the less than idea mixing conditions. If anyone wants any mastering done on the cheap I really recommend this guy. He mastered stamping grounds album "Carved from empty words" and does a few metal/hardcore bands in the UK, all for the princely sum of 15 punds per hour. Bargain! Because it was all mixed in the digital domain it's nice for him to master because his studio is fully analogue and he has some nice gear.
Nothing is sampled on this (drums wise anyway). The drummer in this band is great (even though on this rushed recording there may be a few dodgy moments) so I wanted to keep an organic sound. Spent ages muffling/tuning his kit, and except for the toms which I had to use shitty mics on due to anything decent being used by the other studios, I like the drum sound. I used one of mr. sneap's techniques I picked up here of heavily compressing the kick and snare, and then blending that with a relatively uncompressed sound.
I've not noticed one cymbal being too loud, but I'll go and have another listen. I always find using overheads in metal hard. I was wondering what you guys thoughts were on this? I like quite roomy sounding drums, so I position them to pick up as much of the kit as possible (I find trying to get the best kick drum sound with the overheads is the best way to get an overall nice drum sound) but I don't know if this is the best technique for metal/heavy music?
Interesing fact! That guitar sound is a shitty marshal valvestate combo. When the guitarist brought it in I was like "hmm. Shit." but I think it's one of the best things about the mix! Strange eh. I have a cool mic positioning technique for guitars, but I gota go to work now. I'll post this eveing.
Thanks guys!
Im studying sound technology at LIPA in liverpool an this was tracked there. It was tracked onto a tascam mx2424 and then synced with a mac running a digi 001 to get it into protools.
It was all mixed at home in tools using basicly just the waves platinum bundle, and a couple of extras I've picked up. It was mixed on my hifi speakers which is kinda annoying so I sent it to Martin at White House studios for mastering due to the less than idea mixing conditions. If anyone wants any mastering done on the cheap I really recommend this guy. He mastered stamping grounds album "Carved from empty words" and does a few metal/hardcore bands in the UK, all for the princely sum of 15 punds per hour. Bargain! Because it was all mixed in the digital domain it's nice for him to master because his studio is fully analogue and he has some nice gear.
Nothing is sampled on this (drums wise anyway). The drummer in this band is great (even though on this rushed recording there may be a few dodgy moments) so I wanted to keep an organic sound. Spent ages muffling/tuning his kit, and except for the toms which I had to use shitty mics on due to anything decent being used by the other studios, I like the drum sound. I used one of mr. sneap's techniques I picked up here of heavily compressing the kick and snare, and then blending that with a relatively uncompressed sound.
I've not noticed one cymbal being too loud, but I'll go and have another listen. I always find using overheads in metal hard. I was wondering what you guys thoughts were on this? I like quite roomy sounding drums, so I position them to pick up as much of the kit as possible (I find trying to get the best kick drum sound with the overheads is the best way to get an overall nice drum sound) but I don't know if this is the best technique for metal/heavy music?
Interesing fact! That guitar sound is a shitty marshal valvestate combo. When the guitarist brought it in I was like "hmm. Shit." but I think it's one of the best things about the mix! Strange eh. I have a cool mic positioning technique for guitars, but I gota go to work now. I'll post this eveing.
Right Im back from a horrible day at work so here's that mic position trick I mentioned.
I learnt this of non other than Glyn Johns!
Get a guitar amp, turn it on, and turn it up nice and loud so you get a load of hum coming off it. Then get your mic and crank the gain on it, before feeding it through to a set of cans. Then wearing the cans move the mic around the speaker to find the point where you can hear the most defined buzzing, with the most top end. Then move the mic around on it's axis to get the absolute most hiss you can.
I can almost guarantee that you'll end up with some odd looking off axis position, but really you are prefectly on axis, and on the sweet spot for that particular speaker.
Then all you do is move it closer/further away to taste. Remember though to move it away on the axis of the mic, not just further away at 90% from the amp because you'll lose your sweet spot.
Try it. I guarantedd you'll be impressed!
I learnt this of non other than Glyn Johns!
Get a guitar amp, turn it on, and turn it up nice and loud so you get a load of hum coming off it. Then get your mic and crank the gain on it, before feeding it through to a set of cans. Then wearing the cans move the mic around the speaker to find the point where you can hear the most defined buzzing, with the most top end. Then move the mic around on it's axis to get the absolute most hiss you can.
I can almost guarantee that you'll end up with some odd looking off axis position, but really you are prefectly on axis, and on the sweet spot for that particular speaker.
Then all you do is move it closer/further away to taste. Remember though to move it away on the axis of the mic, not just further away at 90% from the amp because you'll lose your sweet spot.
Try it. I guarantedd you'll be impressed!
