| It sounds like a mix made on small speakers monitored at too high a level because you are wanting to hear some meat to the sound.
At a blind guess you have a build up of bass energy in the room that is fooling you into thinking the mixes are, if anything, bass heavy, when in fact they are bass shy..
In effect, everything in the mix is fighting for the same space between 100hz and 5 k.
Listen to the synth part at the end. Take any bass shelving off you have on it, i'd guess it might even have a high pass filter style eq on it and listen to that in isolation. It's probably, in its' raw state, a pretty full range sound. Then listen to it against your mix of the track and you will hear plainly how you have everything crowded into a, relatively narrow, sonic window.
I'd say you need to get your room treated, big time, to allow yourself to actually hear the bottom end without the bloom, i guess, you are getting big time...
It's one of the paradoxes of mixing. That many of us start out trying to make big hairy arsed rock mixes on tiny speakers. It can be done, but usually by people with a wealth of experience, who have reached a point where they just *know* instinctively how to piece together a mix through, virtually, any system in any room.
My advice would be the following...
Treat the room, you can make pretty good stab doing it yourself for relative peanuts...
Keep the speakers you have and get some Blue Sky media desks, if you are going to want to make rock mixes you need something that, at least, has a genuine stab at bass, at low listening levels and they sure do that.
Then practice, practice, practice...Believe me, the day your mixes suddenly seems to leave the flat plane of the speakers and move into the room is one of the biggest hits you will ever get...
But you have gotta want that and want to go through all the frustrations leading up to it. The days when you feel you can;t mix a drink, let alone a song. |