04-11-2014, 07:59 AM
Welcome Malte!
This is not a bad attempt for a first mix.
There's a few great things, for example, I like the treatment of the whispering vox during the bridge.
That being said, I find that your mix has quite a lot of high-end/harshness, which is primarily coming from the guitars...
Are you a guitarist by any chance?![Wink Wink](https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Because the guitars are so high in your mix that they are masking everything else, including the vocals!
They are rather harsh as well, which makes it a rather difficult mix to listen to, honestly, my ears are now bleeding from listening on headphones.
I would first lower the guitars level, then apply a lpf (or a high shelf cut at least) to tame that harshness.
There's a lot of fizz in there. Something I've done before on harsh guitars is to use a de-esser to tame that fizz down. A multiband compressor could be used as well. But perhaps start by cutting this with EQ.
The low-end is probably going to benefit from that as well, and it you should help you achieve a better balance IMHO.
The bass is lacking right now and perhaps it will come out better from that move, if not, I would try to compress it and EQ it so that it cuts through the wall of guitars a bit better.
The cymbals are a bit weird as well, they sound squashed and again quite harsh (a high shelf wouldn't be lost on that), and panned so widely that I found that a bit surreal.
I wonder if you could not narrow the width of the overheads a bit?
Keep it up!
This is not a bad attempt for a first mix.
![Smile Smile](https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
There's a few great things, for example, I like the treatment of the whispering vox during the bridge.
That being said, I find that your mix has quite a lot of high-end/harshness, which is primarily coming from the guitars...
Are you a guitarist by any chance?
![Wink Wink](https://discussion.cambridge-mt.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Because the guitars are so high in your mix that they are masking everything else, including the vocals!
They are rather harsh as well, which makes it a rather difficult mix to listen to, honestly, my ears are now bleeding from listening on headphones.
I would first lower the guitars level, then apply a lpf (or a high shelf cut at least) to tame that harshness.
There's a lot of fizz in there. Something I've done before on harsh guitars is to use a de-esser to tame that fizz down. A multiband compressor could be used as well. But perhaps start by cutting this with EQ.
The low-end is probably going to benefit from that as well, and it you should help you achieve a better balance IMHO.
The bass is lacking right now and perhaps it will come out better from that move, if not, I would try to compress it and EQ it so that it cuts through the wall of guitars a bit better.
The cymbals are a bit weird as well, they sound squashed and again quite harsh (a high shelf wouldn't be lost on that), and panned so widely that I found that a bit surreal.
I wonder if you could not narrow the width of the overheads a bit?
Keep it up!
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something." - Frank Zappa
Some air moved here
Some air moved here