Bad Bad Trax. . ..

[ryguydrum@netsc]

Don't you hate it when you receive some
really poorly recorded source tracks to mix.

Man, I had quite the time trying to mix this demo.
Actually, I would call it fixing rather than mixing.

The other thing that really bugged me was
that I was drumming on these tracks, and the drums had phase issues
all over the place and bad micing too.
I was not however engineering or producing the drum tracks.

We were actully recording in a fairly decent sounding room (4th street, Santa Monica)
but man did the engineer and producer really mess up the drum and vocal sounds.
I wasn't originally supposed to mix it either, but the engineer who was mixing it
was doing such a bad job, I got the call to mix it. And it really sucked to
hear my drums sounding that bad.

The crappy thing is that my drums actually do sound good.. .really good in fact,
but the producer and engineer insisted that I put massive amounts of tape
and muffling material on each drum which just made them sound terrible
and in the end during the mixing stage, they did sound pretty bad.

Uuuggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . . . . . .

What a drag.
Sorry for the rant, I feel better now.

[dim light]

You should cut you hair and get a job - I just visit your "myspace" thang

[7 Hz]

Un I dunno if that comment was serious? Tune was alright, the vocals could do with a little more, just a few classes breathing exersises and delivery, but not bad anyway. I am a sucker for Sabbath and power trios anyhow...

Your drum sound will always suck to you. Embrace this. Something will always conspire against you during recording and mixing to mess things up. For you. But not for most anyone else. No one else notices really.

Does the song work?

I think way to much rock these days goes for a technical sound, so everyone sounds the same. I think you guys would be better with a rawer sound. Get a producer and work it out. Communicate what you want to the studio, ahead of time, so anything special can be worked out, and just to set the vibe.

[ryguydrum@netsc]

Hey 7Hz,
Sorry for the confusion, but the link is just to my bands website,
not to the tracks I actually mixed. I actually don't have a copy
of the other demo I was mixing.

But thanks for the feedback anyway, It is always welcome.

[djui5]

sounds like you need a new producer/engineer

[brian_delizza]

I just got a session from a client and the vocals looked they had been run through a limiter and sounded like garbage. I asked the client "did you run them through a limiter or something before you gave them to me?"

His response: "No they are just clipping"

[DontLetMeDrown]

Originally Posted by brian_delizza

I just got a session from a client and the vocals looked they had been run through a limiter and sounded like garbage. I asked the client "did you run them through a limiter or something before you gave them to me?"

His response: "No they are just clipping"

LOL!
"Oh good, just clipping. For a second there I thought we had a problem"