Too much bass?

[outbreak525]

Well I got the benefit of being able to record and produce the same band that did the infamous Fireflies cover on YouTube ...

And here's a clip of one of their new songs without the lead guitar or vocals, just rhythm bass and drums. I would like to know if I have the bass too loud here. I was actually able to get a nasty tone out of Pod Farm so I got excited and made that shit loud haha.

Lemme know.

http://soundcloud.com/anthonyhildebrandt/aoes

 

[PremierProductions]

i dont think its as much the bass being loud but the guitars being way too low. bring those guitars up a good bit and i would bump 6-7k on your master buss. just sounds a little muffled. other than that sounds pretty solid! dig the drum tones as well

 

[outbreak525]

I took your advice. And I got this track sounding really beastly! Thanks man!

 

[outbreak525]

Full song done and mixed. Tell me what you think?
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/DISESTABLISHMENTmst.mp3?w=2e76ad96

 

[PremierProductions]

404. put it in your public folder and click 'copy public link'

 

[Charles J]

wanna hear final mix! sounds sick!

 

[outbreak525]

http://soundcloud.com/anthonyhildebrandt/an-open-ended-sky
Final mix boys!

 

[PremierProductions]

definitely sounds better! try dragging a little out of the 500hz range on your master EQ. id say between 2-3db's to clean it up a little bit and download GClip to put at the end of your master buss to make things louder. what are your compression settings on your master and are you using a limiter? if you could get it a good 3 db louder or so (or at least -10 to -8 RMS) this track would be bangin my friend!

 

[outbreak525]

It's reading an average of -7 RMS on my Pod Farm!
And unfortunately that's the final master, the track is already out for download on mediafire and stuff
I should post things here BEFORE releasing them haha
Thanks for digging this!

 

[PremierProductions]

Pod farm cant read RMS im pretty sure In most cases you have to download a RMS reading plugin. i use cubase 5, and all i have to do is once i export it down, make a new project, import the song then go to audio>statistics. and it gives you the max RMS power, the lowest, and the average RMS which should be anywhere between -8 and -10. i would say yours is probably around -12 or -13. simply putting gclip on the end of your mastering buss can get it closer to -10 at least though, as well as using a limiter under your master compressor

 

[outbreak525]

Pod farm cant read RMS im pretty sure In most cases you have to download a RMS reading plugin. i use cubase 5, and all i have to do is once i export it down, make a new project, import the song then go to audio>statistics. and it gives you the max RMS power, the lowest, and the average RMS which should be anywhere between -8 and -10. i would say yours is probably around -12 or -13. simply putting gclip on the end of your mastering buss can get it closer to -10 at least though, as well as using a limiter under your master compressor

My UX2 has an RMS meter right on it!