warren-
i'll hook you up.
 

the guitar player
thanks for listening, john....
i'm hunting for some knowledge on mixing and mastering in a way i haven't really done before....
so i'm looking for common assumptions from other mixers, just looking for commonalities to base my attempts on....
i'm glad you like my stuff.... but i'm looking to improve.


beagle
mid heavy, check.
it's hard not to be mid heavy when most of the track is mid-heavy guitars!
heheh
i try scooping the guitar tracks at around 750hz, wide gentle scoops, just to make them a little less so, but honestly, that's how my guitars sound.... very bold in the mids, and not scooped like the popular heavy rock and metal seems to like..
i find more interesting info in the mids, than in the lows and highs.
i haven't tried those shure headphones before, i might try them out at performance audio just to see what they are like (that's where i bought my akg240's, they have a whole wall of headphones, including those shures)
 

Sorry I can't comment on the mix in phones as I don't have any handy at the moment. Let me say however, the is Fabulous!

Sounds good on my phones mdr 7506. Excellent performance and mix, the bottom end actually sounded better in the phones than it did on speakers to me. The mix did sound a little too compressed to me as compared to the last one you posted, but this is not my genre so that may be what you are shooting for. Overall it is great !

I have a simple Bose 2.1  setup. Sounds FINE on my system! Especially cranked. 

HD 380 Pro. Sounds ok here, everything is clear and not panned too much. I'm a bass player so take this with a grain of salt but I would have liked a little more bottom end. I thought the vocals were perfect.

wookie
dt100's......i've always liked the sound of beyers
i like their mics too!
wished i had a pair....
the mix really does favor good monitors in a good room...
but i hope i can figure out some common freqs that work for all...
i think ultimately, i just have to figure out how to eliminate all 'MUD' and focus on clarity in midrange and high end,
without harshness,
and that is what will end up translating in the headgear.....
 

6finger
glad you liked it!
let me know if you get a chance to crank it in phones....
 

teego
i used to have those mdr 7506, i always liked them.
they had clarity, but i always suspected it was a bit hyped....
this one was mastered pretty smooth, but the mix was really upfront,
and to get it that way required a lot of control on every part,
so mostly stuff sounds the same volume, it just comes and goes in the mix...
definitly what i was shooting for with this one.....
not right or wrong, but what was intended.
 

bayoubill
cranked, that is the preferred method!
LOL
thanks for listening....


rebel007
thanks rebel.....
now, i've had a couple of other reviews where guys said there was phase issues with stereo widening, which of course i never use, only hard panning- LCR classic mixing, with a little off center here and there, and here you are saying not much panning!
heheh, i trust your ears, if you hear it balanced, then THAT was what i was trying to do!! :)
more bottom, so, in my monitors, i've got tons of bottom, and in my headphones (AKG240s) i have plenty too....
so there is a difference in certain pro level headphones, in bottom end translation, THAT is what i'm trying to understand.......
thanks for the input!

Rob, I opened up the CD cut and the BOX cut posted on the forum.  The CD cutis definitely a bit ballsier.  Not a ton of difference but enough for me to tell and for me to prefer the cut from the CD (what you sent).  Either one is top notch but...... FYI.  Oh, I'm listening on Senn HD280 PRO.

On my AKG K240df's the mix has a nice bottom with good balance between the drums and bass.  However, the guitar get lost a bit on the edges as opposed to listening on speakers.  The vocals were sitting just right for my taste buds, and I didn't have to strain to hear the words. All in all, this is an outstanding song and recording.

warren
that's interesting that you hear a diff between box and the cd..
the box files, are the same as the cd, the same 16 bit wave files that were ripped to cd, are what the box contains.....
 
i wonder why it sound different?
i'll investigate.....