11-02-2014, 06:18 AM
Very powerful riffs.... great work on this one.
I haven't tried mixing this one yet so I'm not familiar with the tracks or the challenges but I have a couple of small suggestions you could try if you were so inclined. Is the lead vocal double tracked? It sounds like something is disagreeing with the intonation in a few places, so you could try panning them 10% on either side to tame the disagreement or putting some love on the offending track with a pitch corrector if you wanted. Also the ride cymbal sounds like it's in front of the guitars in a couple places, which isn't my style but I know some dudes like really upfront drums for rock music. And maybe the guitars' low ends are filtered a teeny bit much, but that's from a modern perspective, I think. Classic rock generally employed thinner guitar sounds, and I like that quality, too.
As for positives, I like how you've made the sound very aggressive. There's a lot of cut and bite, even with the limiter in place, and the guitars are wiiiiiicked nasty (in the good way
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And I don't think the snare is too loud. I read somewhere that Mick Jagger suggested turning the entire mix down so low that you could barely hear anything, and the only instruments that should come through are the vocals and snare. Obviously that doesn't apply to a lot of music, but for a classic rock tune like this, you've done that without realizing it and it sounds great, so Mick must have been on to something.
I haven't tried mixing this one yet so I'm not familiar with the tracks or the challenges but I have a couple of small suggestions you could try if you were so inclined. Is the lead vocal double tracked? It sounds like something is disagreeing with the intonation in a few places, so you could try panning them 10% on either side to tame the disagreement or putting some love on the offending track with a pitch corrector if you wanted. Also the ride cymbal sounds like it's in front of the guitars in a couple places, which isn't my style but I know some dudes like really upfront drums for rock music. And maybe the guitars' low ends are filtered a teeny bit much, but that's from a modern perspective, I think. Classic rock generally employed thinner guitar sounds, and I like that quality, too.
As for positives, I like how you've made the sound very aggressive. There's a lot of cut and bite, even with the limiter in place, and the guitars are wiiiiiicked nasty (in the good way
)And I don't think the snare is too loud. I read somewhere that Mick Jagger suggested turning the entire mix down so low that you could barely hear anything, and the only instruments that should come through are the vocals and snare. Obviously that doesn't apply to a lot of music, but for a classic rock tune like this, you've done that without realizing it and it sounds great, so Mick must have been on to something.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!