Wanted to bounce this tidbit off yooz guys. In my system it sounds bass heavy. In the recording room, it doesn't. Gimme some feedback regarding mix. Danka!
The bass almost seems missing on my system. But my system at school sucks.....so don't mind me.
Nice guitar work though my man.
Thanks bro :) We are finishing this one on our own (not in a pro studio), and are finding dynamics are different in all of the different systems we have to check it. So if anybody has a nice recording system to listen to this through, any feedback would be much appreciated :)
My instant reaction snap judgement...
It's muddy. There's a lot of 20-600hz in there.
It's dark. Things generally sound dark. The cymbals don't sizzle.
The snare is boomy, drums sound garagey.
The high end to middle to low balance isn't there.
There is a lot you probably should do. I wouldn't necessarily recommend mixing it yourself, but if you are going that way, you're going to need to do quite a bit.
(if you want to send me a USB disk I'll mix it on our PT HD rig, otherwise: )
The entire mix (or all of the elements in the mix that have low content) needs to be low-cut. 80hz down.
Drums... aren't supposed to sound like they were recorded in a garage are they? So
Compress that snare (medium or slow attack + slow release) and drop the bottom end on it. Make it pop at 4k. mix in some bottom head if you have it.
The kick should be tighter and punchier. Again, compression, balancing the attack and release times to emphasize the snap while cutting the boom. Usually medium to slow attack, slow release. Add high end if cutting lows doesn't work. Kicks often snap at 2k.
Overheads, low cut them, make them more stereo if you can, and compress the shit out of them. If you don't want it to sound huge and pumping, do this in parallel (aka "New York drum compression).
Guitars probably sound good if everything else is mixed better. Bass is a little thin. Again compress that thing.
I didn't get to hear the mix with the vocal much, and that's really what I want to hear, a solid minute of the actual song with vocal.
Again, this is just snap judgement based on a quick listen. Take with a grain of salt...
Hey Charger, what you said (sounds garage band-ish) makes sense....which is why I'm reaching out. I just did not know how to fix it. And as I know pretty much nothing about recording, I don't know how to dial in or out your suggestions on the mixing board.
Attached is the entire song, to give you a better listen to everything.
Let me know what you would charge to mix this and 11 other songs. Everything is tracked.
Very long story, and why it has taken us this long to even get to this point in recording this CD, is that the guy doing it for us bailed and moved to Little Rock about half way through the recording. So we had to find another place to finish the tracks. All the while, we couldn't get the files from the original guy for almost a year to even begin trying to piece them together and try to mix them. It has been a recording nightmare.
But at least we now have all of the tracks. Half recorded in one place, and half recorded in another. The newer place is asking both arms and two legs to re-mix all tracks (Brad said somewhere in the $1200 range). And half of those were theirs. Go figure. That's why we set out to try to do it on our own. And none of us are recording engineers. Obviously.
Take a listen. And think about what you would charge to mix I think 12 songs. Getting you the tracks is no problem.