12-08-2014, 10:30 PM
The musicianship on display here is pretty remarkable. These are talented dudes.
I'm not into metal and never have been, despite several attempts to learn to enjoy it, because all music is valid in my opinion... whether I happen to like it or otherwise. But that shouldn't make it any harder to mix, should it...?
Well... maybe. This is a mess of a mix/master and I'd love some feedback to put me on the right course.
The bass guitar sounds to me like the bassist was allowing and open string to ring (not sure if intentionally), and the kick drum is hellishly fast, so getting those two working was a challenge and I'm pretty sure I failed. Tried transient modelling, no dice. Tried fading out the ringing muddy notes and the cure was worse than the ailment. Ultimately I wound up using a sidechain configuration, and also used dynamic EQ on the bass track directly to control the swelling LF stuff as much as I could.
There's also a harshness in the lead vocal, pretty common when a singer really needs power and has to scream, since the vocal chords change shape. I see it all the time... but in this case my efforts to tone it down and make it less needling weren't enough. Any ideas there?
Lol. I'm evidently going to need to practice mixing metal.
I'm not into metal and never have been, despite several attempts to learn to enjoy it, because all music is valid in my opinion... whether I happen to like it or otherwise. But that shouldn't make it any harder to mix, should it...?
Well... maybe. This is a mess of a mix/master and I'd love some feedback to put me on the right course.
The bass guitar sounds to me like the bassist was allowing and open string to ring (not sure if intentionally), and the kick drum is hellishly fast, so getting those two working was a challenge and I'm pretty sure I failed. Tried transient modelling, no dice. Tried fading out the ringing muddy notes and the cure was worse than the ailment. Ultimately I wound up using a sidechain configuration, and also used dynamic EQ on the bass track directly to control the swelling LF stuff as much as I could.
There's also a harshness in the lead vocal, pretty common when a singer really needs power and has to scream, since the vocal chords change shape. I see it all the time... but in this case my efforts to tone it down and make it less needling weren't enough. Any ideas there?
Lol. I'm evidently going to need to practice mixing metal.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!