Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering?

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Maddy2k7
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2007/11/22 16:18:42 (permalink)

Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering?

Heya people,
I'm currently using Sonar 7 producer edition and my band have just finished a cover to the rock show. I did a phone line intro before the song kicks in proper so ignore that. I just wondered if anyoen could give me some tips on making it sound far more professional.
The link to the song is Here Its called Rock Show comp (master)

Heres some details about the song
Guitars were done using Guitar rig 2 with there blink 182 plugin and there is a lead and backing guitar both recorded twice and panned 60% to each side respectively. Drums were done using EZ drummer. bass was done using guitar rigs bass plugins. Vocals were done using a mic and I had my singers do a harmony for majority of the song. I set the levels and then used Ozones CD master plugin to finish it. Didn't use anything else cus I don't really know much bout Eq's or what not. Any help with this would be much appreciated. :D

Phil

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    theguitarplayer
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    RE: Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering? 2007/11/22 21:55:45 (permalink)
    Bring up the vocals and add som reverb to them and spread them out a little. Other than that the mix on the instrumentation sound pretty good. It could use a little clean comp on the instruments, but I'll let others comment on that. Wild stuff! John

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    RE: Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering? 2007/11/22 22:17:38 (permalink)
    Up the vocals, agreed. To my ear, it's likely a matter of eq-ing a notch out of the wall-of-guitars and allowing the vocals to breathe into that space.

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    RE: Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering? 2007/11/22 22:52:13 (permalink)
    That's a pretty good mix, Phil. It's just my opinion, but I don't think the vocals need to come up that much. It's typical of the genre that the vocals cut through just enough to be understandable, as opposed to mainstream pop where the vocal is always at least 6db above everything else. It's also typical of the genre that vocals are only subtly effected. Too much 'verb or delay might ruin the snappiness you've got going. One thing you might consider is double-tracking the vocals on the chorus, so they sound fatter than the verse.


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    RE: Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering? 2007/11/23 06:51:05 (permalink)
    I agree -bring up the vocals and give them a little reverb!

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    Maddy2k7
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    RE: Professional Sounding Mixing and mastering? 2007/11/23 15:14:53 (permalink)
    Thanks for the replys guys. So I should pan some parts out and raise them a bit and add a little reverb? How much do you think they need panning?

    Phil
    post edited by Maddy2k7 - 2007/11/23 15:26:41

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