New mix : Exzem's song (Pinky)

[P-E]

Here's my latest mix, and I'm not quite satisfied by it, I'd like to know what you'd improve.

Drums are SD2 with Sneap and Paramore sample blended on the snare, kick fully replaced with THE GREATEST KICK IN THE WORLD or something like that and a lot of EQ (compression where needed, etc.).
Sent the drum bus to a huge reverb mixed slightly in to glue 'em together.

Guitars are the TSE ENGL sim, bass is split in two with the trebliest part using Gallo Engineering's (Studio Devil) Virtual Bass Amp.

Clean guitars are Aradaz Crunch IIRC, with a bit of reverb.

Now what would you improve? Where I am now, I don't really know where to start to be honest. My room isn't really good and fucks up the low frequencies, my headphones suck even more than the room, you get the idea! I'm not really blaming this for the low-end, it's just I can't really know whether it gets under control or not.

Thanks for your help guys!

Newest mix : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149356/pinky master 10.mp3
Newer mix (old) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149356/pinky 9 - master.mp3
Original mix (old) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149356/pinky early mix 8.mp3

 

[P-E]

New mix up, please comment.

 

[lolzgreg]

I think the effect in the beginning is a little loud. It could perhaps be highpassed a little further toward the mid-frequencies. How high are you LPing the guitars? They are very staticy at first, but sound much better with the mix comes in. I would suggest getting to the drums a little earlier.

 

[P-E]

I think the effect in the beginning is a little loud. It could perhaps be highpassed a little further toward the mid-frequencies. How high are you LPing the guitars? They are very staticy at first, but sound much better with the mix comes in. I would suggest getting to the drums a little earlier.

Thanks a lot. I haven't really started automation to be honest, and I wanted to get the guitars and the bass slowly in the ambient intro. I'll probably do that for the next mix. With your suggestion though, I'll also automate a low pass, the guitars IIRC are LPed to 12500 hz.

For the drums now, I don't really wanna change the music itself, but I think that by automating the guitars' volume and high frequencies it'll fit better in the mix.

Thanks again!

edit : Oh well, forgot to highpass the guitars like I usually do, weirdly it was set at 14500 instead of 12500 which gave a lot of staticity to the guitar sound.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Drums are shifted by a couple of bars to the right.

 

[P-E]

Drums are shifted by a couple of bars to the right.

Oh really. Wow.

(I can kind of imagine what's going on through your minds : "what a noob...")

Thanks!

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Oh really. Wow.

(I can kind of imagine what's going on through your minds : "what a noob...")

Thanks!

No, I did the exact same mistake when I was mixing it too

 

[P-E]

Good to know!

Now how do you guys feel the EQing is, the volumes of the individual elements, the panning and all? I'm hoping it's pretty good, since there are no major comments on that.

Here's a new mix with fixed drums (!) and a bit of automation for smoothness (might need some left for leads in the clean guitar part near the end and also snare verb in slower parts) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1149356/pinky master 10.mp3 (should be up at "whatever your time zone is":27)