Ill Fate Mixed by Dcp

[dcp10200]

This is a very nice and polished mix, but somethings missing. It almost sounds too polished, to nice, to sweet. I want to hear more dirt, more grit, more bite, more smear, more aggression.

Therefore I would
- Turn up the vocals or move the guitars out of the way (e.g. CLA is boosting lows/highs on the guitars and the mids on the vocals - and it works)
- add more distortion to the guitars. They sound great but need more bite. In real life I would use a Tubescreamer in front of the amp - or turn the level up if a TS is allready in use.
- add a subtle high shelf boost (about 1db) to make the mix a little bit brighter

If the distortion on the guitars is not enough to push the mix into the "red zone" I would try to add subtle saturation on the mix buss with decapitator or drive VCC into the red

Thanks for the comment, The sound I'm going for is more in the style of the band Counterparts (in particular the song Slave off their 3rd album "The Difference Between Hell and Home"), Hollow Ground seem like a less technical more aggressive version of Counterparts so that's what I based my sound off of

The vocals are consistantly pulling 15 dB of soft clipping already and the level is almost pinned on the TS emulation infront of the amp sim, if I go further I'm really just adding noise and very tiny amounts of actual gain. I'm running an Andy Sneap style C4 multiband compression setting on the guitars so that maybe the reason there isn't alot of mushing up in the guitars. I didn't really turn up the makeup gain on that so the guitar has lost some low mid energy however the bass better fits now.