henchman
nicely balanced mix. that snare drum is not doing it for me and it doesn't matchthe boomy toms at all (which i really like). good choices with the noodling guitars. i like it.
Greg Dixon
i dig the dry and almost completely untreated sounding drums. it sounds like they are in a small room balanced well. the slap on the vocal is fitting in well too. i've got some weird ground hum, or resonating note....something killing my buzz (pun intended) the guitar melodies are uneventful. i think you got really close to something special but backed off, or just didn't go far enough.
nizzle
yeah man, this is probably my current favorite. i like the pumping off the kick. makes the mix feel a bit andy wallace-ish. he's a master at making his big rock mixes pump in a cool way. nicely done.
Adam Miller
this strikes me a bit like my own mix just less amped up. i think my mix is a good rough with vocal effects placed. i feels like you pushed up the faders, got a good blend going, threw some effects at it and walked away. not that that is wrong, but i think what you and i did is more the job of the tracking guy at the end of each day.
Grant Richard
vocal effects are too much. i would have used that effect and blended it with the original vocal. i like the idea, but it sounds like the 100% wet return.
you treated your kick drum almost identical to mine....in fact your drums are very close to mine.......hmmmmmmmmm, i wonder who taught you how to do that??????
the 2buss compression is pumping too hard. the idea is there, you just went too far. since i know you i can say that you are still too green to pull off buss compression this extreme. you need more practice.
guitars are too dark and too quiet. i went dark on this mix intentionaly and i sorta missed the mark on what i was after. to me, this mix feels like you went more for the ear candy then you went for the right moves for the song at hand. the ideas are solid, just not all geling with one another.
M Carter
gentle?????? is this a massage? you can't learn if i'm gentle.
kick has no bottom and is easily 5 dB quieter then the snare (including arena verb)
the snare is brighter then the vocal, thus drawing too much attention to it. also, the snare is the loudest element in the mix. that's not a bad thing, but it's not good in this case. in the big sections, the kick is just gone......it needs a serious level increase, a big boost at 60Hz. from what i can tell, your mix is mono minus the stereo panned guitars. if you are gonna do mono, it has to just flat blow me away, at least IMO. the guitar melodies are totally burried. to the point of turning the mix off cause i'm annoyed by not hearing them.
you need to look around the song, find what elements are making it "magic" and zero in on those. ditch all the effects......ALL OF EM, and start over. make your drums and bass and lead vocal absolutely slam!!!!!!!! then add to that.
i'm not tossing that out for a thought....i'm saying....DO IT. bring this mix back up and do that.
you are a meter watcher, and an EQ graph watcher. stop it!!!!!!!
compress till all the vibe and cool comes out, EQ till it sounds awesomer....(yeah i just said awesomer). the difference between me and you is.......i don't stop till i get what i want.
if you can make the mix POUND without any effects you will be right where you want to be. from there, the effects are just icing, smoothing things out, and placing things better.
ok, i'm tired i'll do more tomorrow after i post about drums and bass for Tom C.