Melodic Hardcore Mix advice... FFO Wilhelm Scream/Strike Anywhere etc...

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Member Since: Aug 05, 2004

Just finished up a first mix on this song for a friends band... they were very rushed during the recording process as their drummer had an hour and a half to do all 4 of his drum takes... poor planning on their part but they had to knock it out before parting ways for winter break etc.

I'll have to give it a good listen tomorrow morning or later tonight after my ears have had some rest but I think it's fairly decent. Obviously not some over the top production and everything was recorded live in one take other than two guitar overdubs and vocals. Any help, advice, suggestions, critiques would be much appreciated as always!

Here's the song: http://soundcloud.com/nocontrolstudios/tiyl-songs-of-experience

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Czar of Turd Polish
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Since: Jun 20, 2006


Jan 15, 2011 09:40 pm

Honestly I think is sounds damn good. I can hear all the guitar parts and the drums are clean and natural sounding. If I offer any criticism it would be this.

The "take it back" vocals that start right after 1:00 (the chorus I believe) are jumping out a little too much imo. Compared with all the other vocals (which are great) they just don't sit as well.

Nice work though, good song as well.

Cheers

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Since: Aug 05, 2004


Jan 18, 2011 11:31 am

did another two mixes, this is the latest one and I feel is an improvement in small places:

I beefed up the guitars in the 700-1100 range... about 2dB with sonnox oxford EQ, i definitely think they sound better now for sure, also tweaked a tiny bit of their overall level in the mix, bringing them down approx .5dB after the other changes.

bussed the snare, kick, toms, and OH's to a stereo aux and crused them with a kramer pie plug with the 'close room crush' setting with a few slight adjustments to the presets, still not sure if there's enough of a click in the kick drum but the snare definitely came out a bit more as a result i feel.

lastly brought up the bass about 1.5dB as i felt it wasn't coming through in the first mix as well as it should have been. There's nothing fancy going on playing wise but its definitely essential to hold down the rhythm of the song and i felt it wasn't doing as such.

Also for the chorus gang vocals "Take it back, take it back" i doubled them up with alternate takes and pulled them down a bit, they were jumping out a bit too much in the overall first mix.


http://soundcloud.com/nocontrolstudios/tiyl-songs-of-experience-3rd-mix

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