Tips to Improve my Mix!

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Member Since: Jul 31, 2005

please give me valuable tips to make this mix better

www.myspace.com/allformutiny

download the song dana and listen to it because streaming quality is bad

and i dont know how to post music here... so PLEASE check it out and give me some tips

thanks,
colin

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Prince CZAR-ming
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Since: Apr 08, 2004


Aug 16, 2005 12:32 pm

Hey there A,

Me thinks you need to pony up some $$$ to become a 'PRO' member here to have dB host yer music.


* PC speakers *

Seems the song's not coming together very well. Sounds like the tracks are competing with each other. WYD may add some EQ comments, I'm not well versed in EQing much like this yet.

1. drummer needs to drop the super fast fills, or get on them cleaner. There's noticable parts where the fill isn't meshing with the timing. It becomes very apparent to someone listening objectively, where you may overlook it after tracking it.

2. Drums seem too hot. Drop the level.

3. Bass seems too hot, as well. Maybe add compression to the track, to thicken it up, then drop the level. Digital compression will blend the levels together too, so there won't be differing levels through the song.

4. Vocals seem to need some reverb, or little delay to add some depth into the mix. They seem very upfront and kinda edgy.

I'd use the guitar track(s) as a starting point for levels. Listen to that track, then add one thing at a time, and mix for levels. This is certainly an area where 'everything louder than everything else' is not going to make a good recording. 'Cut' more than 'boost' seems to be the way to go here.

All in all, it's a catchy tune, seems very on-track for the newer punk style. I like.

Member
Since: Jul 23, 2005


Aug 16, 2005 03:58 pm

Possibly bounce the opening guitar playing between left and right or have two versions in each channel with different effects? Just an idea to spice it up. A great example of this is Underoath's "It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door".

Most of my time is spent mixing vocals and so I know some tricks that could help you bring out there (the music I mix is in this genre, as well):

- Have a flanger FX track and bring it up to mesh with the main vocal track at certain moments to mimic My Chemical Romance's vocal effect. Good moments are words you want accented, yells, holding notes, etc. It just pronounces words/phrases and gives it a very clean, pop punk feel.
- Have another vocal track running mainly in the left or right channel and detune it by a few cents.
- Possibly have another vocal track panned center with heavy distortion and reverb with a very low volume. I like to call this my bed track because it seems to leave room for the real vocals to shine and cut through the mix. Keep in mind I am just a basement producer here so many people here may disagree with this technique :)

Overall, great start.

Frisco's Most Underrated
Member
Since: Jan 28, 2003


Aug 16, 2005 04:11 pm

hmmm, those are some interesting techniques for vocals brock. I may have to try some of those with my own vocals. nice. flanger on vocals, hamster starts turning the wheel...

Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004


Aug 16, 2005 07:42 pm

distortion on vox...my next mix i will post has distortion blended in with the vox (on it's own buss)...gave me just the balls i was lookin' for.

sorry i didn't listen, it's closing time here.

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