The Well Mixed by Doug

[andrew0v]

This is a pretty tricky mix, in the Read Me file the tempo isn't included but it does seem to be locked to a grid. Also the snare rolls seem to have a strange robotic pattern to them even before I re sampled them. The overheads have a couple of weird edits in them (the sustain of the cymbals sounds like it's being stretched and had a crossfade on the edit in an attempt to make it less noticeable, could also be some form of Elastic Audio as well). That being said, it's not impossible to get a decent sounding mix out of and having the DI bass and guitars opens up some possiblities in getting tones.

So far I've gotten a balance and overall tone going, some automation on the snare rolls, low end of the kick during the double kick sections, and some vocal riding. It's in a place where I can revise some eq moves, work with levels, and possibly back off a bit of compression on the mixbuss. Overall, I'm aming for something along the lines of Motormouth by Periphery with the guitars, bass, and drums, personally I'm not a big fan of the vocals (more of a Randy Blyth, Jens Kidman, and Spencer Sotelo kind of guy), but they do fit the track atleast.

Cheers,
Doug

Update: I went back and made some tweaks to the mix, the guitars now have a darker, more high gain tone to them and are automated to help them sit better with the vocals, I realized that when I printed my samples that they were in mono so they didn't have the width and space I was looking for but did give the snare some beef, so I exxagerated my deicated snare verb more to more closely match the Periphery track. I lowered the high pass on the Bass Fx track so that it fi better with the DI Bass.

This is really good i just think that the drums are a little off apart from that its practically spot on