Rough mix with vocals

[theunforgiven246]

I've posted the music to this but now it has vocals and my girlfriend is singing and I did the screaming. Its all I could do with the shitty equipment I have currently.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6452278

 

[theunforgiven246]

For the guitars I used my Ibanez 7621 with a Blaze custom pup into a shitty Ibanez TS5. From there I go into my old as peavey mixing board as my interface connected to my comp via the line in. I think I used Dirthead for the amp sim, and forget what impulse i used. The bass is a soundfont cause I'm too poor to afford a real bass, but that too is going through dirthead. The drums were DFH2 with the basics of eq's, comps, and gates from reaper and a reverb i forget where i found. All vocals were recorded with an SM57 actually... I really need a better job.

 

[DirkDee]

Heya!

Very interesting stuff you got=)
Cool riffs and vocals. the mix sounds alittle "unclear", but its a rough mix after all so im sure you will fix that at some point
Good job!

Cheers
D.D

 

[theunforgiven246]

Do you mean the vocals sound unclear? I'm blaming the 57 for that because all the vocals I've recorded with it sound like that, and if the music mix sounds unclear, any ideas to make it better?

 

[Zombietakeover]

i wouldn't blame the 57 , its on countless records

 

[theunforgiven246]

I always use the 57 to record vocals and they always end up sounding like that. But it sounds great on cabs.

 

[theunforgiven246]

Alright I've updated it with a possibly better mix.

 

[theunforgiven246]

I keep tweaking it. I think it sounds clearer now. Please critique.

 

[-Noodles-]

I think you've got the same problems that I have (had) ... the vocals don't really sit in the mix,.. they sit on it.
I used delays and verb, and bringing the level down to just above the guitars to make them better.

I also read on here, that a lot of people use parallel compression on vocals to make them sit a little better (about 5 pages back i think).

 

[theunforgiven246]

I think you've got the same problems that I have (had) ... the vocals don't really sit in the mix,.. they sit on it.
I used delays and verb, and bringing the level down to just above the guitars to make them better.

I also read on here, that a lot of people use parallel compression on vocals to make them sit a little better (about 5 pages back i think).

I'm still learning, how do I do that?