Extremophile's Mix

[Extremophile014]

Hi, I am a novice musician/sound engineer and this is my first attempt at mixing such a copmlex and dynamic metal song. I really found coping with the bleeding drum pretty challenging and I did my best with the whole song with what I have...... Just some stock plugins and free vsts.

Please tell me what you think about the mix! There must be plenty that can be improved but please go easy on the technical bits since I'm just starting off - don't mind being too harsh though, an explicit comment is always helpful.

Thanks!

Extremophile

Hi Extremophile!

I have nothing to add to what jugx said. Follow his advices

And i really like your mix, it doesn't feel like it was made from a novice, instead from an average sound engineer (my first mixes were utter crap )

Believe in what you do and never give up mate!!

Thanks a lot! Glad you like my mix .

Just wondering about the rhythm guitar tone, how do you find it? I'm a guitar player myself so usually when it comes to guitar tone I have a clear direction. The rhythm tracks are very simple, DI into some free amp sims and a few layers of EQ. I'm planning on making a short video sharing my guitar tone (also to test out a new-bought mic) and just want to collect some comments.

I obtained the guitar tone simply with Guitar -> Jack -> Behringer DI -> Audio Interface -> Schuffman Amps S-Gear 2 with impulses from Rosen Digital

What did you was not so distant from what i've done on the album

Ah I see. For this one I used the Ignite Amps Emissary with a TSE 808 screamer emulator. Loaded Catharsis impulses using the NadIR from Ignite Amps. Before everthing was a quick attack gate. After that just some EQs enhancing frequencies in the mix and losing some screaming bits.