Popish Djentish type mix. Too harsh?

[Pinebox]

http://soundcloud.com/pineboxrecording/hypergiant

I feel like it may need some smoothing over. Any and all comments appreciated. Thanks.

EDIT: Latest mix:

http://soundcloud.com/pineboxrecording/hypergiant-mix

 

[oroinvictus]

Everything is HUGELY lacking in low-end, mids and warmth, all I hear is high-end. Cut back on that high end, and get some 200-800hz into just about everything. Cool to see that you're from san diego, I used to live there.

 

[Pinebox]

http://soundcloud.com/pineboxrecording/hypergiant-mix-4

Took the cymbals way down and removed some 2mix limiting. I think it took away the painful high Hz a bit. I tried a mix adding lower midrange like suggested and I just ended up with mud, so now I hope cutting a lot of are upper mids.

 

[Vicioushead]

The latest mix is alot better but I still find it quite harsh.

 

[MisSigsFan]

Everything is HUGELY lacking in low-end, mids and warmth, all I hear is high-end. Cut back on that high end, and get some 200-800hz into just about everything. Cool to see that you're from san diego, I used to live there.

Wait. Used to? Whattttt? I knew you were in Oregon for college, but you moved there permanently?

And yeah, basically what he said. Better guitar tone and drum tones will go a long way as well.

 

[Pinebox]

http://soundcloud.com/pineboxrecording/hypergiant-mix

Hows this?

 

[oroinvictus]

Much better, man. Everything's starting to sound pretty sweet. The guitars have some fizyness that could be cut out, maybe around 5-8khz. I just read that you're the manager of Signature Sound! A friend of mine did a short internship there and I took a tour with my high school audio engineering teacher once she found out that I wanted to get into recording music, very cool high-quality sounding place.

 

[Pinebox]

Thanks man, yeah, I moved out here from Massachusetts a year ago and interned here for a while and then I became manager in September. With the move, not knowing anyone to record (or anyone period) and trying to stay afloat, I haven't really had time to practice engineering my own stuff so I feel like I'm kinda playing catch up to where I should be, but it is what it is, this is the second track I have really gotten to mix in the past year! Who was your friend here? I may have met him if it wasn't long ago.

 

[oroinvictus]

Oh this was two or three years ago, at least. His name is Kenny Smith, he goes to school in LA so I'm not sure how much involvement he has/had with SS... your mix is sounding pretty seet so far, you've got some pretty nice equipment and rooms to work with there. I'm admittedly jealous.

 

[MarcMullingar92]

Guitars are still lacking a little in the low end but thats only noticable when the bass isnt filling it out. Really liking the bass tone

 

[Headof75]

Your guitars still need mids for me.
Not loads, but some.
At the moment they hardly have any...