Recording Engineers opinions needed.

[carlo_caci]

Hi this is my second post but i can assure you I have read the ultimate metal forum for years!

please listen to my recording of my band betrayal.

many people have aproved of the mix but i would love to have the opinion of a recording engineer.

www.myspace.com/betrayalband

thanks in advance.

(hope i get a reply, andy sneaps forum does not seem as active as it used to be, hope im wrong)

 

[ahjteam]

If I would have to guess from the mix, I would say that you a guitarist. edit: Or a bass player, now that I listened with headphones.

Thats pretty much all you can hear in the mix. I personally come from FOH background and I like to mix stuff the "radio way"; so when you turn down the volume so that the volume is barely on, the only thing you can hear is the vocals. and maybe snare.

 

[carlo_caci]

haha true. im a bassist/guitarist and singer so good guess.

thanks for the reply, I will investigate imedietly

 

[ahjteam]

Do the separation test using a laptop; If you take any of Sneap's mixes as reference (like for example Killswitch Engage "Rose of Sharyn" or Machine Head "Imperium" or Roadrunner United "Dawn of the Golden Age") and turn the volume down all the way until it's almost unheardable, only thing you can hear is lead vocals, guitar solos and the snap from the kick, snare and toms. Everything else is just blur at low volume.

On your song all I hear is guitars, overly loud snare and really muffled vocals.

 

[carlo_caci]

OK!!! i have completley remixed this! i think the problems have been ironed out. What do u more experienced folk think?

 

[ahjteam]

It's better, I like that the vocals are intelligible now, but since I'm on just laptop speakers now so I won't comment any more indepth.

 

[carlo_caci]

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New album cover!

So is the mix there yet?

www.myspace.com/betrayalband

 

[carlo_caci]

Ive Remixed it again! im very happy with it now, im at the point where i feel satisfyed with niggly bits. perhaps the overheads could come down a few dB but unless you guys think its completley shite then maybe it is finished?

 

[carlo_caci]

have you concluded anything? is it a pile a pile of dog wank?

 

[PAPEdROGA]

Ciao Carlo,
I think you have some "not small problems" in frequency management... especially in low-mid. So much 300-500Hz that make all recording so... woody and "papery".

I hope to be helpful.
Bye.

 

[carlo_caci]

Ok iv listened to all the comments on here and elsewhere and remixed it yet again. How now brown cow?

 

[bryan_kilco]

Guitars sound like they need more high end....but I'm on laptop speakers.

 

[carlo_caci]

no problem, think iv sorted it. I was unsure about adding toomuch high end on the guitars because with my recording it seemed that the fizz and treble were insepirable but it seems alot better now, thankyou