Pop Djent Mix - Drop F#, Keyboards, etc.

[colynomial]

Looking for some feedback on this. In particular on the snare. Trying to get a good drum template setup for the rest of this project. Guitars need to be reamped and bass is still VI.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ah68oinqm80l45n/04_IRRESISTABLE.mp3?dl=0

EDIT: long time coming but here's the final mix on this, mastered by Troy Glessner!

 

[keitake]

I find the snare a little boomy on the low-mid ends, and that song is awesome!

 

[nezvers]

Dude, awesome song, love it! Only thing is that I hate cymbals - they sound like over-compressed, all the time in your face and take attention from rest stuff. For accent cue hits it could be OK but doing cymbal wash hits is straight up irritating.

 

[McGarnacle]

I agree with the others, snare is a little boomy on the low end, maybe look at eq'ing that out if you're using a separate reverb for the snare. Cymbal washes are a bit monotonous too, look at toning the volume or velocities down or humanising them a bit more.

Other than that though, it's a killer track and is sounding really great!

 

[colynomial]

Thanks for the feedback guys - I'm with you on the cymbals. These are all sampled drums so the cymbal wash was a bit difficult to tame on this track because of the tempo - might just swap for hi-hats and pull the OH fader back a bit.

I think maybe I need to just suck some more low-mids of my snare plate verb too.

 

[McGarnacle]

For the cymbal wash parts, if you use superior drummer there's a feature called MHE (multiple hits emulation) which if pulled all the way to the right does a pretty good job of improving the sound of cymbal washes. I find if you pull the velocity down a bit and turn MHE all the way up it improves things greatly. Just a thought if you don't want to go changing the dynamics of the song.

Looking forward to the end product though man, lovin this track.

 

[colynomial]

Bumping for the finally project a year later!

 

[reaper1984]

Snare has too much Direct reverb, bring the wet knob down quite a bit. Cool song btw. Keep rockin'

 

[newamerikangospel]

Would you be willing to do a raw file upload? I would love to do a practice mix on one of these.