Mixes for a college students Project

[doughy12]

Hey - I'm fairly new to the site and I thought this forum was very cool. I'm a college student at Drexel University studying the Music Industry. I'm concentrating on the technical aspects of the industry (production, engineering) so I have a lot of classes in studios and such. I'm working on a few projects and i thought it'd be good to get some feed back. Both of these mixes are fairly rough. They're both dry one doesn't have vocals. Anyways, rip them apart.

Thanks,
Ben

[drakewire]

But they are buried. Bring em up to the front center.. Add some compression light and some easy reverb, and maybe use a Lexicon... That should balance out this "mix" much better...

[xmostynx]

hey man your mixes sound pretty clean on an imac right now.

everything seems right up front- your right they are very dry.

add some depth and more 'space' so everything kinda sits (in a room) this is what I imagine when i mix

as far as recording it- your snare sounds cool. with some compression you can get the drums to pop more- try sending them to an aux with some gated verbs, a decent reverb- then maybe one compressed and mix the compressed/uncomp. together..?

the electric guitars needs more bite to them.

you got something very workable recorded so your on the right path!
sounds good

[DeeDrive]

Very nice clean tracks, but the drums and vocals are too dry. This is a good type of mix to really learn what compression and eq can do for you. (Cause this type of music usually has a lot of it)

This would also be a great chance to try autotune if you haven't tried it yet, cus this guy needs it.

I think if you really worked at polishing the drums and vocals, this could be an awesome mix.

[doughy12]

thanks for all the comments guys. i'll try and post final mixes once they're finished. i will take into consideration all of your comments. Thanks again.

Ben

[dmb10]

Hey man, I'm heading up to drexel this fall for music industry...how do you like it?


-Jeremy

[myownsayingso]

sounding pretty clean. good start. just needs some depth with reverb here and there and some delay on guitars. the overall low end isnt really hitting. the bass is very low. also the kick could use some low end boom and some high end smack.