28-10-2020, 11:29 PM
Hi!
Listening to mix 2...
Pretty good mix with nice focus. The whistling part sounds pretty good (and not phasey, which it can do) too.
I think the vocals could maybe come up a db against the guitars? I like the tone of the guitars and they are sounding good and nicely up front. I am missing just a slight touch of air and space around the vocals though perhaps? Maybe the bv's could come up a little too?
The sub of the bass and kick is perhaps dominating a touch too much and could be balanced a little better with the band? I like the pulse of the kick and bass coming through though, which I think you need for this style. I feel it could be brought back a little bit, as the subs are a bit too strong for me still and I feel are clouding some details in the performance.
It's possibly just the low end of the bass mainly perhaps? (I think I was a little shy with the low end on my mix and could have added just a touch more).
Yeah a decent mix, but just a little too much bass for me. Anyway those are just my thoughts - what do you think?
As an aside -
I think you have to be a bit careful/suspicious of plugins that sound drastically different when you change bit depth and sample rate. To avoid issues I feel it's best to stick and one setting for the mix and render, and do any conversion as a seperate step.
I have come across plugins that shift eq points, etc when changing sample rates - the GUI won't always show it, but analysis does. You can always use test tones and analysers to see and measure what is really going on though.
Sample rate changes the highest frequency that can be captured - higher sample rates than 44.1 may make things easier for eg anti-aliasing filters etc, but I am sure that being able to record tones above 20KHz is a waste of time, unless you are making recordings for bats (and have speakers that can reproduce those frequencies cleanly). Bit rate of course just changes the noise floor and dynamic range. I doubt most music uses more than 30db range (eg the intro to Money For Nothing, I think is about 20-30db difference from memory, I'd have to check!).
There is an argument for using 32 bit float though, as you won't get any clipping/distortion in the files.
Anyway personally I think it is important to have half a clue of what is going on so you can have confidence in your tools and have a bit of insight into why they might sound different at different rates.
A famous one is the Reaper eq - it cramps at Nyquist - you can see eg bell curve cramping in the display at 44.1 as you move towards 20kHz). - It's probably my favourite eq and I do use it at 44.1 in the main.
To my mind plugins shouldn't change sound dramatically when changing sample rates if they are well programmed. Some plugins might use fixed rates internally, etc.
Anyway, again just my opinion (I'm sure others are available!) and apologies for quite a bit of a digression there.
Cheers!
Listening to mix 2...
Pretty good mix with nice focus. The whistling part sounds pretty good (and not phasey, which it can do) too.
I think the vocals could maybe come up a db against the guitars? I like the tone of the guitars and they are sounding good and nicely up front. I am missing just a slight touch of air and space around the vocals though perhaps? Maybe the bv's could come up a little too?
The sub of the bass and kick is perhaps dominating a touch too much and could be balanced a little better with the band? I like the pulse of the kick and bass coming through though, which I think you need for this style. I feel it could be brought back a little bit, as the subs are a bit too strong for me still and I feel are clouding some details in the performance.
It's possibly just the low end of the bass mainly perhaps? (I think I was a little shy with the low end on my mix and could have added just a touch more).
Yeah a decent mix, but just a little too much bass for me. Anyway those are just my thoughts - what do you think?
As an aside -
I think you have to be a bit careful/suspicious of plugins that sound drastically different when you change bit depth and sample rate. To avoid issues I feel it's best to stick and one setting for the mix and render, and do any conversion as a seperate step.
I have come across plugins that shift eq points, etc when changing sample rates - the GUI won't always show it, but analysis does. You can always use test tones and analysers to see and measure what is really going on though.
Sample rate changes the highest frequency that can be captured - higher sample rates than 44.1 may make things easier for eg anti-aliasing filters etc, but I am sure that being able to record tones above 20KHz is a waste of time, unless you are making recordings for bats (and have speakers that can reproduce those frequencies cleanly). Bit rate of course just changes the noise floor and dynamic range. I doubt most music uses more than 30db range (eg the intro to Money For Nothing, I think is about 20-30db difference from memory, I'd have to check!).
There is an argument for using 32 bit float though, as you won't get any clipping/distortion in the files.
Anyway personally I think it is important to have half a clue of what is going on so you can have confidence in your tools and have a bit of insight into why they might sound different at different rates.
A famous one is the Reaper eq - it cramps at Nyquist - you can see eg bell curve cramping in the display at 44.1 as you move towards 20kHz). - It's probably my favourite eq and I do use it at 44.1 in the main.
To my mind plugins shouldn't change sound dramatically when changing sample rates if they are well programmed. Some plugins might use fixed rates internally, etc.
Anyway, again just my opinion (I'm sure others are available!) and apologies for quite a bit of a digression there.
Cheers!
Just uploaded a mix/master? Waiting for comments? Why not give back and critique a mix/master, or two!