AMBOLA - FINISHED!!! Thanks to all!

OK, so this may be our heaviest guitar song yet and I'm no pro at this by any means. Also, a disclaimer: I mixed this through phones because my wife is taking a nap!!!!

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7175634

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Scott

No drums are EZ drummer modules actually. I think I just have the compressed snare track too high; again I had my phones on for this mix. I have the KICK / SNARE / OH and entire kit seperately bussed and comp'd. It works well, as long as I don't bring the busses up too high, which I think I did in this case.

Thanks for confirming my thoughts on the guitars. I have the guitars hard-panned L-R and the solo dead center. I think the solo needs to come up a bit and EQ'd maybe about 2-3K north, maybe 10K too.

I'm trying to be careful with the vox; I don't want to wash them out. I have a tendency to do that, but they need some oomph. I actually have verb and delay on a mirror track, that I can bump up just a hair.

I've never really leaned towards goth purposefully, this is just what's coming out at present.

Thanks so much!!!!

I'll follow up on this if you wish

Yes please!

No really I wanted to post this early in the game - as this is a relatively early mix. I had to just get a rough sketch done with phones due to privacy issues, but tomorrow it's just me!!!

I just needed some focus points, and you have provided that, Philip, so thank you!!! Nothing inept about the crit!!!! This is exactly what I was hoping for. No surprises though, except for maybe the vox.

So I'll be taking a serious stab at this tomorrow and will post the results by afternoon I hope.

Cheers!
Scott

Larry! No that's exactly what I need!

I was actually trying to get to a new mix today, but I live in New England and we got 18" of snow last night. I spent about 3 hours cleaning the snow and then with my normal exercise program I'm spent!!!!

Tomorrow (Tuesday) I'll be diving straight in!!

Please come back.

Bring those drums up bud..

Getting better Scott, but, I'm unsure about the vocal processing. Back off just a bit on it during the singing as it sounds 'over-verbed'. Love that bass!!

ok, NEW one uploaded at 9:46pm Done for the night!!!

I did everything I specified above. Thanks for hangin' through this one with me!!!

I can have a look at it if you want. You can send it to me. I gave you my email address.

I think there are lots of imbalance issues in the spectrum. This is a really hard thing to nail, because if you got a bunch of things EQ'd, and they are all done somewhat incorrectly, it's a big mess. No master-bus EQ is really going to fix it.

You also have a blending problem. The kick drum is unhearable and lacks the necessary punch. The snare and guitars are clashing. The hi-hats are too tinny. The vocals aren't sitting right here... they need to be louder than the rest of mix... and some parts have too much reverb :(

The best thing you can do for issues like this is to throw a CD in that is a very similar style, and play that CD on the same volume as your mix. Then, one instrument at a time, get your sound to be similar. I did this with acoustics and drums. I'm not perfect, but this method has helped me a lot. This gives you a goal - something to move towards. Hearing the same mix and using itself as a reference from your old changes won't really do you any good if you're learning.

Seriously, send it to me and I'll have a go at it, then show you what I did. I can always use the mixing/mastering experience. Use something like YouSendIt:
http://www.yousendit.com/

Some of my later mixes are these:
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7114047
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7173778

If you like these, then have me give it a go ;)

Hey Man, Merry Christmas ;) I sent you an email with my address and stuff and some text ;) I haven't received it. I should be up for a bit, so if you want me to work on it, let me know.

Hey scott, it comes up as "Ken Egervari", similar to my forum name. I also sent an email through the cakewalk forums. Why is your spam filter filtering out valid results for? I say get a new spam filter. LOL.

ORIGINAL: egervari

Also, you can compress it using Rar or Zip and use YouSendIt. That way it won't be 300 meg.

Yeah, AUDIOSNAP makes saving BUN's impossible. I sent you an e-mail with an idea. BTW, YOUSENDIT only accepts files 100mb and under (free account). SENDSPACE is 300mb and you can do multiple files at 1x. It's a better service.

But neither will help. I have a dropbox account that we could share a folder - I can upload 2 gigs there. I sent you a message.

L8R!

Scott, I just listened to it for the first time today and it sounds great IMO; apparently you're getting the "tweaks" done in the right places. I'm certainly no mix expert so I'll just leave it at that!!

OK! I finally took another stab at it today. Just uploaded 6:22PM on 12/30.

I think I got some of that muddyness out of it, though I just noticed the vocal level needs me to ride the volume envelope just a tad more closely.

Other than that, I think it gets the point across. Mix feedback please!!!

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7175634

ORIGINAL: jamesyoyo

WAAAAAAAAAY too compressed. It actually bothered my ears. But the tune is cool. As most of ASA tunes are.

Easy fix. Man, I'm stoked if that's IT!!! (But in my world, nothing is that easy . . . . )

THANKS JAMES!!!!

Cool song Scott, as usual. Your work has all the ingredients necessary for the genre. Some thoughts on the mix;

* Bass - excellent - great tone, really cuts through.
* Drums - too far back, snare is coming across as quite tinny and small, which is a shame because when it's heard in the gaps it sounds great. More kick drum to lock in with that bass.
* Guitars - great sounds but a little washed out in the mix - too much 'verb?
* Vocals - much too much reverb - I would clean those right up and try a cloned track compressed to death (or phone eq-d), underneath the main track (if you haven't already )

Sorry about all the crits, but I reckon you've got a real gem here if you can shine it up.