| For this style of music you need a much bigger kick drum and snare. Use an equalizer to
add more low frequencies to the kick, around 50hz to 120hz, find something in that range that sounds good to you. The snare is a little small sounding, add a little 100hz to 250hz, experiment, you want a meaty fat sound. The snare needs more " crack" too, try somewhere between 2khz to 4khz. Also try adding what is sometimes called "air" to the snare, between 8khz to 20khz.
The string melody needs some reverb and is too loud.
The bass could be fatter too. Add distortion and low frequencies.
To make things sound more like they are in the same space, add a small amount of the same reverb to all the tracks. Also, create a level change between the verse and chorus. The chorus of every song is almost always louder. When mixing it is often helpful to check things at very low levels. If you can barely hear anything then thats the right level. Listen to what pokes out, it is usually too loud. Try balancing the instruments at this low level, then turn it up and see what happens.
Good luck and have fun. |