Nerve9 - Pray For The Rain

[Debellatoris]

Made some much needed changes from my first mix, hope yall like
v3 - leveled out the bass, and raised overall volume. would really like some feedback on this mix. any and all comments welcome

[ThomasStevenson]

Hi Debellatoris - thanks for mixing the track! What I enjoyed the most about your mix was the treatment on the verse guitars and the lead guitar parts - and I am the guitar player

The bass guitar sounded good to me - a bit too much of the 1-2khz that Mike talks about in the article though - worth trying that out and seeing what you think.

Vocals maybe a bit too compressed? That is likely the top thing to look into - maybe some parallel compression or just a bit less of what is happening.

I was missing the chorus tremolo guitar - at first I thought you were holding it back for the first chorus, but it never appeared. A subjective comment, but it would be a 'from the artist' comment I could give you.

Drums sounded good - something was poking out for me with the hi-hat. Either volume or higher frequencies making it sound a bit brittle.

I hope this is helpful - I am trying to listen to everyone's mixes, but it's been a little slower due to some personal commitments. I'm learning a lot from everyone's take on the song, so I thank you again for taking the time to check it out.

BR

Thomas

[Debellatoris]

mr. thomas
appreciate the feedback, you dont know how much it helps, im getting real experimental with things, starting to learn how to use things and i hadnt perfected anything yet so this really lets me know where im lacking and how to fix it, so thanks a bunch. vocals were very compressed, but the reason i did that is because i duplicated the lead twice, panned the duplicates left -50, right 50 and on the left pan i pushed back by around 16ms before original and the right pan i pushed forward around 16ms after original. then i sent all the tracks to the same channel and lowered the left and right volumes pretty low, and i was trying to smoosh them together. on the original i sent to a seperate track and added delay, and reverb, and put it pretty low in the back. and i wanted certain parts of the vocals like when she got a little loud or not so much loud but powerful, i wanted these to stand out in the delay/verb track and when i compressed it the way i did, these certain were really accentuated. so im gonna do the parallel you mentioned and lower the really compressed track quit a bit, and put an original track on top, maybe a little distortion to on the compressed track to grunge it up, like i said im still learning a lot. gonna bring that tremolo in to. preciate the input man.

[HbGuitar]

Your whole mix sounds very narrow...almost mono.....I'd suggest looking at your panning strategy....you need to be more confident....at the moment it sounds like you have all your guitar/synth tracks down the middle and are relying on panning FX to create width....