Want practice augmenting drums, guitar tones, mixing and mastering? Files inside

MisSigsFan said:
I see what you're saying. Gonna mess with it a bit more.

EDIT: Messed with it a bit more.
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Hey MisSigsFan

The balance between all the layers sounds good. Nothing too loud, nothing too quiet.

However the over all mix seems to be missing a lot of frequencies above 4KHz. Too much of this makes a mix sound thin and nasty but too little can make a mix sound muddy.
All your guitars, cymbals, kick, snare etc are coming across a bit muddy due to the lack of energy above 4Khz.
Seeing as it's on everything I'd assume it's something in on your master buss doing this. I could be wrong though :p

In between 70Hz & 180Hz there is also a lot of boom. Just a little too much. This in combination with the top end is making things as I said, a bit muddy.

Overall the kick & snare could come up a bit and cymbals down a bit.

Good attempt none the less :)
But try a few things that I mentioned and it may help your mix cut through a bit more ;)
 
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As for me, your kick and snr sound like shit, i wish i had no problems with replacement :(
 
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Totally forgot to replace the snare at some point but it works.
 
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Send it to three different buses. One for the low end of the DI another for the grit and highs of the bass and a last one for bass distortion. A lot EQ, impulses, compression, and pow.
 


Dropbox: http://db.tt/6n2TC6AL

Tried to make the kit sound totally different, so spent the majority of time with the drum tracks. Used a lot of the Waves SSL plugins and things.

For guitars, I used Softube Metal Amp Room, blended some Redwirez Sheffield speakers in just a little and blended in the first attempt guitar (bx_rockrack) tracks in a little for a bit more depth. I'm listening to a lot of Dream Theater & Circus Maximus a lately, so it's a little "Modern/Prog" hope you like it. I myself liked how the bass & kick worked out, not so much the guitars but limited to software only stuff for now. Used SHB-1 for bass, I believe I made a third bass track with an impulse I made of a Sansamp PSA-1 so it's a little thicker but I liked it before I did that too with just the free SHB-1 plugin, just couldn't decide if it needed the depth but seemed like a good idea.
 
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Definitely need to get my hands on more of this stuff!!

 
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Hey everyone, I have been a lurker here a bit and just joined now when I saw the opportunity to mix some tracks. I have been looking for some good metal DI's to just mess around with some amp sims of which I don't have a lot of experience. This little ditty turned out to be quite the kick ass tune. I have listened to the other mixes and they are all quite good. I figured I would do a quick mix (quick for me anyway) and throw it up here for some fun. I have spent about 4 hours on it over 2 nights. So here it is, I am a little concerned that the bass might be a bit tubby, but I think I have lost perspective on that trying to go for a thick meaty overall tone.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gbhywh8kylovfxx/Mix Master 29-01-2013.mp3
 


Decided to demo Scuffham S-Gear, it sounds good on it's own but someone gave me the idea to use the Torpedo sound so blended that in and thickened things up much better.
 
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