Rough mix

[sysrq]

Hey there,

The guitars are really buried in the mix at a lot of spots - I understand your reasoning for this, though, but I still think they could come up in the mix a bit. When I recorded and mixed the track, I did some automation in spots to accentuate what I wanted to hear at certain times - we always have to do stuff like this in busy mixes. (Especially the blast beat section where the snare and ride cymbal just take over the entire mix.) If you didn't know, I actually did a full walkthrough of how I recorded and mixed the track here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...xt_z6XZ9ss

Agreed, guitars could have been a bit thicker sounding with longer natural wide panned delay (double tracking) to emphasize them, but since we have choir in there, it might be better to leave them a bit thinner in order to not to disrupt the weight balance.

Sounds like also that some of the guitars were in DI format and were not amped. The bass guitar is overpowering as well. I know you mixed on headphones - which pair? You may consider also listening to mixes on various headphones, to include just a regular pair of earbuds. It's a good way as well to hear how your mix is coming along.

Cheap Sennheiser HD 415. Might sound worse on small headphones and speakers due to some unsmoothed peaks in the spectrum of the mix (around 215-250 Hz) . Bass comes from electric guitars mainly (around 100-15 Hz), while leaving massive dip around 80 Hz, and then some peaks on 35-55Hz coming from kick drum.

It's good to see that my multitracks are helping people out. Keep working at it and you'll only improve from here!

Thanks a lot, hopefully will try to improve this version so that it can be more listenable.