Please bash my rough mix

[jello]

I've finished recording this band and have a rough mix started. I'd like some feedback before I go any further. Any suggestions are welcome.

Protools LE
Digi03

[barters]

Hi mate....

I like the guitar tone...nice and fat. Something I've hated for years are thin metal type guitar tones.

Snare sounds nice.

Cymbols sound nice

Kick has good definition, but I reckon you could give it some more low end if possible without losing that attack in the mix.

At 3min 51 sec there is a snare roll or something that starts which sounds a bit distorted and lost in that progression but that might just be personal taste.

Pretty good though. What was your drum mic setup?

[jello]

Originally Posted by barters

Pretty good though. What was your drum mic setup?

Thanks,
I used Sure sm57's on the snare (top) and one on each tom. Sure beta52 on the Kick. A pair of Octava MK219's for the overheads. The original snare track was boxy and dull so I re-amped it by duplicating it, gating the duped track and sending it to a 15 watt bass practice amp. I set the amp on it's back and a snare batter side down on top of the speaker. I used an Octava MK319 to mic the snare wires and just messed with the signal until it cracked. I used a combination of the original and re-amped tracks. The re-amped track is still raw, I may have to tweak it a bit, this may be where the distortion is coming from. Thanks again for your input, I'm still second guessing the low end of my monitors so it's good to hear the comment on the lack of low in the kick.

[barters]

Originally Posted by jello

Thanks,
I used Sure sm57's on the snare (top) and one on each tom. Sure beta52 on the Kick. A pair of Octava MK219's for the overheads. The original snare track was boxy and dull so I re-amped it by duplicating it, gating the duped track and sending it to a 15 watt bass practice amp. I set the amp on it's back and a snare batter side down on top of the speaker. I used an Octava MK319 to mic the snare wires and just messed with the signal until it cracked. I used a combination of the original and re-amped tracks. The re-amped track is still raw, I may have to tweak it a bit, this may be where the distortion is coming from. Thanks again for your input, I'm still second guessing the low end of my monitors so it's good to hear the comment on the lack of low in the kick.

My pleasure....I can't help myself.

Bare in mind that my monitors aren't the greatest in the world either, they are good but not huge and I don't have a sub. Probably should have mentioned that before.

That is a really interesting thing you did with the snare. I've always had trouble recording a snare with a SM57 (what i've always been told to use) where I have the signal come out with a lot of ring and quite weak.

Keep the good work up, and let us know what it sounds like after you're finished with the final mix.

BTW, how did you upload your audio file?

[jello]

Originally Posted by barters

That is a really interesting thing you did with the snare. I've always had trouble recording a snare with a SM57 (what i've always been told to use) where I have the signal come out with a lot of ring and quite weak.

Keep the good work up, and let us know what it sounds like after you're finished with the final mix.

BTW, how did you upload your audio file?

Thanks,
I read about the snare re-amp in some issue of Tape Op I have laying around. The more I listen to it now the more I want to go back and focus on mixing the two snare tracks together so they fit better. I allways use a 57 on the snare, but his snare was just dull and the velocity of his strikes were all over the place which makes it hard to record and even harder to mix because every strike sounds different.
I bounced the file out of Protools at 16 bit and converted it to an MP3 using an application called Switch and just uploaded it to the site using the manage attachments button.