Metal Track My Final Mix, What Do You Think?

[Faymus Media]

Anyone?

[MarioContreras]

I'm not voting in the poll but I'm gonna say a couple of words.

There is to much trigger noise in the kick, and it sounds a bit off at times. Did edit the timings?

There might also be a compression issue as the snare moves towards the back sometimes.

More room in the drums sound, a lot more, make it loud and proud. It will help the kit gel together and will add a vibe to the track.

There is a bit to much upper mids going on and that makes it a bit shinny and scratchy sounding. The guitars could use some low end to round them off (or maybe some tape saturation). The bass needs to fill out that low end since the kick is so clicky.

Anyways I hope you find this useful.

[Faymus Media]

Originally Posted by MarioContreras

I'm not voting in the poll but I'm gonna say a couple of words.

There is to much trigger noise in the kick, and it sounds a bit off at times. Did edit the timings?

There might also be a compression issue as the snare moves towards the back sometimes.

More room in the drums sound, a lot more, make it loud and proud. It will help the kit gel together and will add a vibe to the track.

There is a bit to much upper mids going on and that makes it a bit shinny and scratchy sounding. The guitars could use some low end to round them off (or maybe some tape saturation). The bass needs to fill out that low end since the kick is so clicky.

Anyways I hope you find this useful.

thanks for the tips.

[Faymus Media]

Here is the new updated version with numerous fixes. Does this one sound better?

[MarioContreras]

To much high end on the snare (10kHz area maybe) really scratches my ears. In the intro it's a total mess. To much stereo trigger stuff I honestly don't know what that stuff is in the intro....are those supposed to be toms and kick?

What are you monitoring on? A bit to much mid range, it's very tiring on the ears. Basically in sound a bit thin and without any real meat to drive it.

You didn't do any editing on the bass and guitars did you? Time editing (pocketing)? It sounds off sometimes and in this style of music you need to be robotic and spot on.

It seems to me, and I could be totally wrong, that you are focusing way to much on loudness instead of getting a good tone and sound. It could be your room and monitoring system that plays with what your ears hear.

Anyways I hope you appreciate the honesty.

[Faymus Media]

The intro is snare, kick and toms, I am going to ride the fader and bring the room mics into play to glue that together.

I can fix the snare a bit more and make it more pleasant.


The thing that bothers me is you said the guitars are scratchy in the mids? What range? I removed about 5 db or more between 2-4khz and high passed at 80hz and low passed at 9khz. I also removed some mids between 300-800 hz.

Any suggestions?

[MarioContreras]

The intro needs fixing first. To much of that clicky noise on the toms.

The guitars aren't necessarily that bad but they aren't as smooth as I'd like them either.

Are you using headphones? Cause on headphones it sounds pretty good! ...and on this particular set of headphones they should sound bassy, boomy and muffled(I know my gear what can I say).

[Faymus Media]

Originally Posted by MarioContreras

The intro needs fixing first. To much of that clicky noise on the toms.

The guitars aren't necessarily that bad but they aren't as smooth as I'd like them either.

Are you using headphones? Cause on headphones it sounds pretty good! ...and on this particular set of headphones they should sound bassy, boomy and muffled(I know my gear what can I say).

so my mix does sound boomy and muffle on headphones? Does it need more low end?

These guys played the bass on higher octaves so there isnt a whole lot going on below 100hz on the bass.


i have yamaha hs80's and i remixed the song and made touchups based on my Audio Technica M50's.

[EmuChicken]

not a big fan of the snare ... would be nice if you could clear it up and add more reverb to it "paaannnn" - maybe sink the snare in db - listen to a similar track, Im sure the snare is never usually so loud.