Hi!
Thought I'd best check your mix out too. I actually prefer mix V1 to V2. The guitars have a bit more weight to them in the low mids, and the vocal is a little clearer. Snare is sounding pretty good here.
Couple of things I noted. Not sure which tracks you are referencing, as it can make a quite a difference to how you approach a mix. I used the library mix, but do let me know if you used other tracks, as it can sometimes help to see what sound you are going for in your mix.
For me the vocal could perhaps be a bit clearer and a little more upfront. Some bits of words are sticking out, whilst others are getting a little buried. Checking the library mix, for me the vocal is kind of taking more of the mids/upper mids, and the guitar is perhaps more balanced towards the lower mids, if it makes sense for me to explain it like that? This means the guitar and vocal are not fighting so much for that same upper mid frequency range, and you don't have to add so much 4k to the vocal to get it to cut over the guitars. The vocal has a little distortion on it too, which helps give it the impression of loudness, and also helps it to work with the guitars.
The other thing I picked up on is that the kick has quite a lot of room and weight in the low end, but I feel there is a quite a bit of space frequency wise between the kick and the bass / low end of the guitars. I feel the mix could do with a bit more in the 300Hz and below area to kind of bridge that gap? Possibly the bass needs a bit more volume to kind of fill in between the kick and the low end of the guitars. I find often it's the bass that adds the power to the low end of the guitars, rather than just the guitars on there own.
The balances within your mix itself are pretty good, it's just that I feel that overall frequency wise I feel the mix has maybe a touch too much top end, and maybe not enough low mids - so sorting out the low mids would help with that.
This is a good effort so far. I just thought I'd try and share a couple of thoughts with you that I feel might help move it up a notch. As you can tell if you check out from my early rock and punk mixes on this forum I struggled for years to get my head around mixing these kind of tracks, but I have been working hard at it and feel my last few mixes are getting a little bit better, so it's really worth sticking at it and to keep putting the effort in. I feel these are by far the hardest mixes to get right.
Hope this helps and gives you some encouragement anyway.
Cheers!
Thought I'd best check your mix out too. I actually prefer mix V1 to V2. The guitars have a bit more weight to them in the low mids, and the vocal is a little clearer. Snare is sounding pretty good here.
Couple of things I noted. Not sure which tracks you are referencing, as it can make a quite a difference to how you approach a mix. I used the library mix, but do let me know if you used other tracks, as it can sometimes help to see what sound you are going for in your mix.
For me the vocal could perhaps be a bit clearer and a little more upfront. Some bits of words are sticking out, whilst others are getting a little buried. Checking the library mix, for me the vocal is kind of taking more of the mids/upper mids, and the guitar is perhaps more balanced towards the lower mids, if it makes sense for me to explain it like that? This means the guitar and vocal are not fighting so much for that same upper mid frequency range, and you don't have to add so much 4k to the vocal to get it to cut over the guitars. The vocal has a little distortion on it too, which helps give it the impression of loudness, and also helps it to work with the guitars.
The other thing I picked up on is that the kick has quite a lot of room and weight in the low end, but I feel there is a quite a bit of space frequency wise between the kick and the bass / low end of the guitars. I feel the mix could do with a bit more in the 300Hz and below area to kind of bridge that gap? Possibly the bass needs a bit more volume to kind of fill in between the kick and the low end of the guitars. I find often it's the bass that adds the power to the low end of the guitars, rather than just the guitars on there own.
The balances within your mix itself are pretty good, it's just that I feel that overall frequency wise I feel the mix has maybe a touch too much top end, and maybe not enough low mids - so sorting out the low mids would help with that.
This is a good effort so far. I just thought I'd try and share a couple of thoughts with you that I feel might help move it up a notch. As you can tell if you check out from my early rock and punk mixes on this forum I struggled for years to get my head around mixing these kind of tracks, but I have been working hard at it and feel my last few mixes are getting a little bit better, so it's really worth sticking at it and to keep putting the effort in. I feel these are by far the hardest mixes to get right.
Hope this helps and gives you some encouragement anyway.
Cheers!
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