21-03-2017, 02:42 AM
Hey zero, welcome to the forum! I like the mix! It sounds really solid. I like the sub frequency depth of the bass (don't have my subwoofer hooked up at the moment, so I can't reeeeeeeally comment accurately on it, but in my current environment I like it) and the guitars are nice and thick. Vox are clean and clear, and I like the delay on them.
The biggest offender, to me, in this is your kick. It sounds a little "flappy." I think you need to bring the attack down by either a dedicated attack/sustain plugin as Reaper has, or some other chain of your own making. If I wasn't using an attack plug, I might go for a compressor being keyed by a moderate to heavily EQ'd track that was not being routed to any audio output [using some fairly narrow band boosts at the "stick-y" frequencies) to trigger the attack down a bit while letting the bloom of the kit come out a little bit more. Maybe use a multi band compressor instead, I dunno, but maybe your whole kit could use a bit more body. I know it's a little difficult with the resonant frequencies that are happening in the lower range of the kick, so some notching may need to be involved. I think your snare could be on the "pokey" side too, so maybe a bit of sustain added to that as well.
After all of that, you could also just turn down the kick, and I might love the mix. I don't think the tone of the song disagrees with a drum tone that is a bit more on the transient side, because the drummer is a tad busy. It would be really easy to make the drums wash themselves out if you add too much sustain to the kick or the snare.
Sorry for the novella, but I haven't been on the forum for a while, and I am a bit giddy from the time apart.
And again, welcome, and nice work so far, especially for your first mix here!
Draper
The biggest offender, to me, in this is your kick. It sounds a little "flappy." I think you need to bring the attack down by either a dedicated attack/sustain plugin as Reaper has, or some other chain of your own making. If I wasn't using an attack plug, I might go for a compressor being keyed by a moderate to heavily EQ'd track that was not being routed to any audio output [using some fairly narrow band boosts at the "stick-y" frequencies) to trigger the attack down a bit while letting the bloom of the kit come out a little bit more. Maybe use a multi band compressor instead, I dunno, but maybe your whole kit could use a bit more body. I know it's a little difficult with the resonant frequencies that are happening in the lower range of the kick, so some notching may need to be involved. I think your snare could be on the "pokey" side too, so maybe a bit of sustain added to that as well.
After all of that, you could also just turn down the kick, and I might love the mix. I don't think the tone of the song disagrees with a drum tone that is a bit more on the transient side, because the drummer is a tad busy. It would be really easy to make the drums wash themselves out if you add too much sustain to the kick or the snare.
Sorry for the novella, but I haven't been on the forum for a while, and I am a bit giddy from the time apart.
And again, welcome, and nice work so far, especially for your first mix here!
Draper