 Re: Metalcore mix
Well, I'm back to my only hearing one side of my stereo again.
Okay, I just took 5 minutes to fix it and I think I just made it worse. It appears I'm back to mono in both speakers and everything sounds weird now.
With that said, I think you hit the 2 buss too hard. It feels like this was well tracked, but everything sounds distorted to me. I listened to some mp3s I have laying around and they had some of this too, but your mix was smashed way more aggressively. In other words, I think my speakers malfuctioning is making the excessive 2 bus limiting / compression more obvious.
The guitars sound pretty good to me. If you have EQ on them, I'd reduce the boost @ 3-5Khz 1dB. Generally speaking, I like the metal guitars a tad darker.
A :58, I'm totally loosing the snare. This should be knocking a whole in my chest. At 1:24 that guitar sounds great. At 1:26, it sounds like your mix was put in a blender. While that seams like a great thing, I think the L2 or whatever you have on the 2bus is wreaking havoc on this mix.
It's hard to tell with my speakers sounding so weird right now, but I'm thinking the problem is in the drum levels. How hard you hitting the drum bus with compression?
If it was me, I would try hitting those harder so I didn't have to squash the entire mix so much on the 2bus. It may not work, but it would be a good start.
I'd like to hear more drums in general, however you need to do that.
I checked Muse and a few other mp3s I have that are pretty loud and yours is a tad louder. So that tells me you can get away with 2dB less reduction. That may make all the difference in the world...especially if you hit your drum bus with a couple dB of very fast attack fast release (not too fast or you get low end distortion) compression.
By the way, this is going to be a damn good mix when we get the kinks worked out.
Brandon
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