Rough track mixing advice/criticism needed

[Agile_player]

So I am pretty new to my kemper and recording (Reaper).

This is pretty rough, just two full takes panned left/right with basic bass and looping drums. I only used high pass and compressors on guitars, cut off highs with eq on bass and really was lost with superior drums tweaks.

Basically I am looking for what I can change so that I have a better starting point or goal when laying a track so that I do not have to process the crap out of it later. The Kemper is nice in that whatever I hear when playing will sound the same while recording but I still have to figure out the proper levels and such.

Anyway any tips or criticisms welcome.

 

[benjy]

It's a good song dude! The snare isn't really loud enough in my opinion and if you have a better snare sample I would use it. The one you have is really poppy. Also as you said the bass needs work. Start with that and post the changes. Honestly I try to use as little guitar eq as possible.

 

[Agile_player]

Thanks for the feedback. It is amazing how far you can take simple scratch tracks once we get into mixing.


The eq on guitars is gone and replaced by high/low filters and I do not think they were properly panned in the last track. I doubled the bass tracks and dirtied one of them.


I seemed to have cut out a lot of the boominess in the first one with high/low filters on the different parts. I tweaked the kick and replaced and tweaked the snare.


Again it is just a basic scratch track that was put down so I could leap into mixing for a bit and try and learn. There seems to be a lot of good tutorials and any links to essential and important ones would be appreciated ( using Reaper BTW)

Any more feedback on what I seem to be doing right or wrong will give me a better idea of where I need to focus on the most.

 

[benjy]

The snare sounds much better. I might turn it down a little bit more. Guitars and bass are much improved. Pretty solid as of now in my opinion but I would get some more opinions.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Bring dem guitars down down down so dem drums poke through!

 

[Agile_player]

Thanks bryan. I am used to practising to drum loops so it kinda sounded normal to me though I do agree on the levels. Once I figure out some lyrics I'll try and blend everything so they all sound even throughout.