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Quicksand - my mix - braddersthemod - 01-09-2016
Great song. Here is my mix. Please leave feedback, and I will leave feedback for yours.
Bradders
RE: Quicksand - my mix - Aresfin - 02-09-2016
needs bass
the top end of the vocals are too strident.
RE: Quicksand - my mix - mingus - 02-09-2016
Stream of consciousness here as I listen... the bass is a little...or more... too meaty. You might want to ease up on the limiter ( I am a bad abuser of these as well). I find the tom in the right ear distracting. You may want to center it a bit so I don't feel like my head is between the snare and the floor tom. Everything is clear and present, so you are doing well.
RE: Quicksand - my mix - braddersthemod - 02-09-2016
(02-09-2016, 03:48 PM)mingus Wrote: Stream of consciousness here as I listen... the bass is a little...or more... too meaty. You might want to ease up on the limiter ( I am a bad abuser of these as well). I find the tom in the right ear distracting. You may want to center it a bit so I don't feel like my head is between the snare and the floor tom. Everything is clear and present, so you are doing well.
Thanks for the feedback! I like to mix drums as if I were sat behind the kit, must be the drummer in me, but I probably need to get out of that mindset and try and do what serves the song better I guess.
RE: Quicksand - my mix - dcp10200 - 03-09-2016
Hey Bradders, overall this is a good starting point for your mix.
However, I did notice somethings that need improvement:
* as Mingus said the limiter here is working hard and squashing the trainsients too much. I would back it down alittle and use less compression (also instead of using a limiter to tame peaks, I find that using a soft clipper pulling 1-2 dB of gain reduction before the limiter yields a more natural result. just use the limiter for a volume boost).
* The mix overall is balanced but I'm noticing that it sounds a touch bright, the high hat chick sound in the left is quite loud and the solo guitar is really strident and harsh sounding. I found that the Overheads had plenty of hi hat in them so I didn't use the hi hat mic at all. Also using a low pass filter at about 7 kHz on the solo guitar will tame the top end of it and make it fit better in the mix.
*the drums sound good, I personally replaced the kick and snare with samples to get a punchier sound and scrapped the tom mics because the Overheads had a nice capture of the toms and the rest of the kit, but the drums work well with the sound you're going for.
Cheers,and hope this helps,
Dcp