why is my mix suck

[kass]

I'm using Slates Thick Metal kit, with some parallel compression on the whole kit.
I could have tried a different kit to see if it sounded better, but I figured I should be able to make this one sound at least decent with my shit. I was wrong.

Dry DI bass with some comp. and eq on it.

TSE x30 for guitars.


I'm very frustrated!

This shit has NO BALLS. I need BALLS!!! wait...

rather, I want a hard hitting mix with some power to it.



HALP PLZ HALP



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You guys have better ears than I. If you have any advice on how to make this shit sound less flat, I would really appreciate it.

 

[Calippo Tecks]

get some of that treble away from the guitars so those mids come out more smoothly and raise the guitar level a bit.
(actually it's like raising everything of the guitar tone except the treble)

 

[kass]

get some of that treble away from the guitars so those mids come out more smoothly and raise the guitar level a bit.
(actually it's like raising everything of the guitar tone except the treble)

I originally had them pretty balanced but I listened in my car and they sounded really dull. I guess I had the right idea the first time.

I'll try that though.

Is the bass guitar sounding OK? Yesterday I hooked up a cheap sub I had from my computer speakers to my interface and I feel I have a better Idea of what is going on down there.

I set the level for the bass by turning off the sub, setting a pretty good high pass on, and raising the volume until the upper freqs to be audible through the guitars in the monitors. Then I turned on the sub and lowered the high pass until the lows coming through the sub sounded about right.

How did that turn out? My first time trying that.