Help with my Mix, plus pickup question

[FatBassPlayer]

Hi,
Can you guys please give me a helping nudge as to what this mix needs and doesn't need? This is my first time recording and I feel like I'm doing something wrong.

Also, I want to get a new pick, and was thinking of getting a stacked humbucker for my strat. Will this make the buzzing go away, and improve the sound? What pick up can you reccomend.
Thanks so much.

[Kiwiburger]

How about a vocal ... kidding ... sounds like a good first time recording to me. The real mixing comes when you have different parts and sections and you start building movement and dynamics into the song.

I hate pickups that hum - but I also like the single coil sounds. I only own humbuckers on everything at the moment, because I had some hum issues that i've solved with better power and grounding.

I'm probably going to buy some Fender Noiseless pickups and fit them to a bunch of guitars. I've experimented with EMG's, and some of them are good. But I hate batteries, and also hate that only certain EMG's have the really low noise specs. The EMG's fitted to most factory guitars are not the good ones.

[NathanC]

There is little to say about this, because there aren't any other instruments involved, apart from the guitar and drum machine.

What you could do: add more guitar parts with different mics, cabs, or even different guitars.

[RainbowStorm]

Originally Posted by FatBassPlayer

Hi,
Can you guys please give me a helping nudge as to what this mix needs and doesn't need? This is my first time recording and I feel like I'm doing something wrong.

Also, I want to get a new pick, and was thinking of getting a stacked humbucker for my strat. Will this make the buzzing go away, and improve the sound? What pick up can you reccomend.
Thanks so much.

It's a bit flat overall, the sound is the issue. Focus some more on the kick drum and try to make those guitars a bit fuller. This will remove some of the flatness and introduce a bit more depth.