01-02-2017, 05:30 AM
For a mix that's supposed to be "Tweaked to Death" it really doesn't sound tweaked. Really it just sounds like a faders up mix, the sample on the snare, kick, and rhythm guitar are the most prominent elements of your mix and is just drowning out the rest of the mix. I can't really tell if you'e included vocals because of the mess that's going on. I would completely scrap this mix and start fresh. Find a real cracking snare sample and a kick with a decent bit of click and a tight sounding low end, Eq and compress them till they fit in the mix if need be and move to bass.
A big thing that I found that helped was ditching the stock drum sounds altogether save for the overheads (the overheads will be your cymbals track so just highpass everything below 600 or 700 Hz). Really the stock sounds here don't fit this genre at all, they're loose and flappy sounding without much punch to them, the saving grace is that they're in time and are played fairly tight. The drums in general are the biggest pitfall of this set of multis as the stock guitar and bass tones are pretty solid already and include DI versions to reamp if need be, and the vocals just need some highpassing and eq , heavy compression, De essing, and a touch of limiting.
Bass wise I found using the DI bass with TSE B.O.D (free plugin emulation of the Sansamp Bass Driver) with some drive and a scoop around 300 Hz and some compression and limiting got the bass most of the way to a finished sound. The other 20% was using the bass Fx track high passed at 250 Hz and lowpassed at 3.5 kHz blended in with the DI. This allows you to control the eq and percived distortion on the bass, making it easier to fit it with the guitar. Guitar wise, if you scoop out the ugly mids at 450-500 Hz, boost some 1.5 kHz and roll off the high end at about 7 kHz, you should be 90% there. Add a multiband compressor to the guitars to clap down on 250 Hz so the palm mutes don't get out of hand and you should be fine.
From there play around with your levels and do some volume automation and iron out the kinks, you miht also find a mixbuss compressor and some tape saturation will glue it all together, just be gentle with it and use it subtly.
Really in the end find a reference mix in the genre that you really like and aim to get a similar sound, obviously don't try and copy it to the t but listen to how all the elements are working together and how you can apply that to your mix.
Cheers, and hope this helps
Doug
A big thing that I found that helped was ditching the stock drum sounds altogether save for the overheads (the overheads will be your cymbals track so just highpass everything below 600 or 700 Hz). Really the stock sounds here don't fit this genre at all, they're loose and flappy sounding without much punch to them, the saving grace is that they're in time and are played fairly tight. The drums in general are the biggest pitfall of this set of multis as the stock guitar and bass tones are pretty solid already and include DI versions to reamp if need be, and the vocals just need some highpassing and eq , heavy compression, De essing, and a touch of limiting.
Bass wise I found using the DI bass with TSE B.O.D (free plugin emulation of the Sansamp Bass Driver) with some drive and a scoop around 300 Hz and some compression and limiting got the bass most of the way to a finished sound. The other 20% was using the bass Fx track high passed at 250 Hz and lowpassed at 3.5 kHz blended in with the DI. This allows you to control the eq and percived distortion on the bass, making it easier to fit it with the guitar. Guitar wise, if you scoop out the ugly mids at 450-500 Hz, boost some 1.5 kHz and roll off the high end at about 7 kHz, you should be 90% there. Add a multiband compressor to the guitars to clap down on 250 Hz so the palm mutes don't get out of hand and you should be fine.
From there play around with your levels and do some volume automation and iron out the kinks, you miht also find a mixbuss compressor and some tape saturation will glue it all together, just be gentle with it and use it subtly.
Really in the end find a reference mix in the genre that you really like and aim to get a similar sound, obviously don't try and copy it to the t but listen to how all the elements are working together and how you can apply that to your mix.
Cheers, and hope this helps
Doug
Mixing is way more art and soul than science. We don’t really know what we’re doing. We do it because we love music! It’s the love of music first. Eddie Kramer
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