10-06-2015, 05:20 AM
Hi, Draper,
Regarding your question on the cymbals...whenever you hear something odd always suspect phase distortion. In my DAW (Reaper) I found that the kick, the snare, and the drum room mikes must be *phase reversed* to be in the same phase as the overheads. Reverse the phases on those tracks and you may find the entire kit sound has improved.
Don't take any of this as personal, we are all here to learn! Sometime the tracks themselves *demand* to be mixed in a certain way. We actually *hear* this mix in our heads and the skill is to be able to technically achieve this mix. The more you practice and learn the skills required, the quality of you mix will improve. Remember YouTube is an incredible resource. Do a YouTube search on, "mixing phase correction" and you will find many videos to help you with this information.
Likewise, doing a search on "mixing vocal eq" will provide much useful information. Your main vocals in this mix boosted the frequencies that should have been cut to make the vocal warmer as opposed to 'tinny' and 'nasal'.
In other news, both the main vocal and the acoustic guitar are distorted over the entire mix. Perhaps you were pushing to faders up too high to get your balance? Maintaining *headroom* while you mix is *critical*.
Be well,
hemiSound
Regarding your question on the cymbals...whenever you hear something odd always suspect phase distortion. In my DAW (Reaper) I found that the kick, the snare, and the drum room mikes must be *phase reversed* to be in the same phase as the overheads. Reverse the phases on those tracks and you may find the entire kit sound has improved.
Don't take any of this as personal, we are all here to learn! Sometime the tracks themselves *demand* to be mixed in a certain way. We actually *hear* this mix in our heads and the skill is to be able to technically achieve this mix. The more you practice and learn the skills required, the quality of you mix will improve. Remember YouTube is an incredible resource. Do a YouTube search on, "mixing phase correction" and you will find many videos to help you with this information.
Likewise, doing a search on "mixing vocal eq" will provide much useful information. Your main vocals in this mix boosted the frequencies that should have been cut to make the vocal warmer as opposed to 'tinny' and 'nasal'.
In other news, both the main vocal and the acoustic guitar are distorted over the entire mix. Perhaps you were pushing to faders up too high to get your balance? Maintaining *headroom* while you mix is *critical*.
Be well,
hemiSound