Heavy stonish rock band mix

SLy_drums · 4th August 2007

Hey folks,

we've just finished mixing the instrumental part of a six songs EP for a rock band, I think it sounds good, but I need some opinions on what can sit better in the mix (I'm not sure about the bass level/boominess for example), and how to improve details.
This is not the final thing, because we have to incorporate the vocals etc.

here is the link : http://sylvain.raulin.free.fr/Budmix/budmixGS.aif
The file is an AIFF, it can be a bit long to download...

Jbassist · 4th August 2007

Sounds cool.
Slate drums?

SLy_drums · 4th August 2007

Thanks ! No triggers here : lots of room and TRANSIENT DESIGNERS :D

hle144 · 4th August 2007

Not bad. Good porportions between the instruments.

The drums can come up in the mix. The snare seems a little small. Maybe a trigger. If you gave me this track to mix, I would definitely trigger another snare. As a compliment and not replace.

Your snare sound has a good top, but for my taste, I would trigger a chunkierr snare (something with more mids around 800hz).

Hope this helped

SLy_drums · 5th August 2007

Thanks for the input !

We can definitely trigger the snare to get something more "deftonesque", but I think we'll use an analog compressor on the mixbus, and it should "glue" those drums a bit more, and make them more pop up through. I think the drummer doesn't want us to trigger his drums :s, but we'll try a bit of that 800 Hz boost tomorrow !
Do you think parallel compressing the drumbus can be great ?

SLy_drums · 8th August 2007

Here is another try :
http://sylvain.raulin.free.fr/Budmix/budnewmix_GS.aif

This time the summing was done through the Mackie 8 bus console (the 1st extract was digital summing into Cubase), then printed directly to the CD burner. It has more "glue" and "depth" to me, even if it's not an SSL mixdown.

It seems there is something strange happening with the guitars and cymbals : guitars sound a bit too midrangey, and cymbals are a bit loud (lots of ambience) and fight with the guitars.
What do you think ? What do I have to do with the balance ?

4th August 2007	#1
SLy_drums Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 762 Thread Starter	Heavy stonish rock band mix Hey folks, we've just finished mixing the instrumental part of a six songs EP for a rock band, I think it sounds good, but I need some opinions on what can sit better in the mix (I'm not sure about the bass level/boominess for example), and how to improve details. This is not the final thing, because we have to incorporate the vocals etc. here is the link : http://sylvain.raulin.free.fr/Budmix/budmixGS.aif The file is an AIFF, it can be a bit long to download...

4th August 2007	#4
hle144 Gear addict Joined: Jul 2007 Location: NYC Posts: 404	Not bad. Good porportions between the instruments. The drums can come up in the mix. The snare seems a little small. Maybe a trigger. If you gave me this track to mix, I would definitely trigger another snare. As a compliment and not replace. Your snare sound has a good top, but for my taste, I would trigger a chunkierr snare (something with more mids around 800hz). Hope this helped __________________ "Her guitar is louder than my guitar" www.jsmmusic.com

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4th August 2007	#2
Jbassist Gear maniac Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 223	Sounds cool. Slate drums?

5th August 2007	#5
SLy_drums Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 762 Thread Starter	Thanks for the input ! We can definitely trigger the snare to get something more "deftonesque", but I think we'll use an analog compressor on the mixbus, and it should "glue" those drums a bit more, and make them more pop up through. I think the drummer doesn't want us to trigger his drums :s, but we'll try a bit of that 800 Hz boost tomorrow ! Do you think parallel compressing the drumbus can be great ?

8th August 2007	#6
SLy_drums Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 762 Thread Starter	Here is another try : http://sylvain.raulin.free.fr/Budmix/budnewmix_GS.aif This time the summing was done through the Mackie 8 bus console (the 1st extract was digital summing into Cubase), then printed directly to the CD burner. It has more "glue" and "depth" to me, even if it's not an SSL mixdown. It seems there is something strange happening with the guitars and cymbals : guitars sound a bit too midrangey, and cymbals are a bit loud (lots of ambience) and fight with the guitars. What do you think ? What do I have to do with the balance ?