09-04-2016, 05:41 PM
Hey don, just making these comments while listening to the Lead roll the DiceV2..mp3 version of your mix.
Overall the balance of mix is quite good, vocals are sitting nicely on top of the mix but aren't overbearing, the bass has a deep growl to it and fills out the low end quite well. The guitars could afford to be higher up in the mix but the overall tone is pretty balanced.
For me at least the drums seem to be the weakest part, while they do have some punch, they don't seem to have alot of drive to them, they sit lower in the mix and don't really have that aggression that this type of track needs. The kick to me seems to be mostly click and gets lost behind the bass and the lower end of the guitars. I found that using the inside kick mic highpassed at 500 Hz and the outside kick mic lowpassed at 1 kHz then blending those 2 mics helped to get some aggression out of the kick and made fitting the bass in the mix easier and got me a nice thwack out of the kick. The snare and toms need to come up in the mix a fair bit. For the snare, saturation from a preamp emulation will be your friend in coaxing some power out of the snare and will cut down on the amount of compression needed for it. The toms just need to come up overall.
Again your mix is sounding good, it just needs some work on the drums and guitars for it to really shine.
Keep it up,
Dcp
Overall the balance of mix is quite good, vocals are sitting nicely on top of the mix but aren't overbearing, the bass has a deep growl to it and fills out the low end quite well. The guitars could afford to be higher up in the mix but the overall tone is pretty balanced.
For me at least the drums seem to be the weakest part, while they do have some punch, they don't seem to have alot of drive to them, they sit lower in the mix and don't really have that aggression that this type of track needs. The kick to me seems to be mostly click and gets lost behind the bass and the lower end of the guitars. I found that using the inside kick mic highpassed at 500 Hz and the outside kick mic lowpassed at 1 kHz then blending those 2 mics helped to get some aggression out of the kick and made fitting the bass in the mix easier and got me a nice thwack out of the kick. The snare and toms need to come up in the mix a fair bit. For the snare, saturation from a preamp emulation will be your friend in coaxing some power out of the snare and will cut down on the amount of compression needed for it. The toms just need to come up overall.
Again your mix is sounding good, it just needs some work on the drums and guitars for it to really shine.
Keep it up,
Dcp
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Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6
Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6