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gives 05-10-2016 09:25 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DementedLegacy (Post 2355920)
Hp Envy
i5
Windows 8.1

Protools 12.4
Stock Plugins
Baby Bluebird Condenser Microphone
Audient id22
Soundproof closet


This my first mixed song. Its me on the verses. The chorus came with the instrumental pre mixed.

Is there anything you can hear that i can improve in the mix (?)



https://soundcloud.com/user-585972019/only-human


Listening on my laptop even at low volume, things seem a bit bright and a bit out of balance. I would start by rolling off the highs a bit. I have no idea what your room environment is, but I would listen at a lower volume and EQ the vocal of you a bit differently Less it more. Good Luck! G

PMF Media 05-10-2016 10:31 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
I think it sounds pretty good all things considered, your vocal sit well and given that you've had no control over the bed and chorus mix... I'd say well done!

DementedLegacy 05-10-2016 11:15 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gives (Post 2355921)
Listening on my laptop even at low volume, things seem a bit bright and a bit out of balance. I would start by rolling off the highs a bit. I have no idea what your room environment is, but I would listen at a lower volume and EQ the vocal of you a bit differently Less it more. Good Luck! G

Thank you. Is that like subtractive EQ? Like find the trouble frequencies and dip them?

DementedLegacy 05-10-2016 11:15 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by PMF Media (Post 2355927)
I think it sounds pretty good all things considered, your vocal sit well and given that you've had no control over the bed and chorus mix... I'd say well done!

Thank you I appreciate it!

JFreak 05-11-2016 12:05 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gives (Post 2355921)
Listening on my laptop even at low volume, things seem a bit bright and a bit out of balance. I would start by rolling off the highs a bit.

agreed

Quote:

Originally Posted by gives (Post 2355921)
I have no idea what your room environment is, but I would listen at a lower volume and EQ the vocal of you a bit differently Less it more. Good Luck! G

I would sleep over it and then with a pair of fresh ears listen to this mix VERY LOUD which gives you the idea how much high end there is.

If you're overall satisfied with the sound, just drop a high-shelving EQ to drop the highs. It is hard to tell what you're looking for, but what "everyone" notices is too much high end on vocals. Makes ones ears turn backwards :P

JFreak 05-11-2016 12:06 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DementedLegacy (Post 2355928)
Thank you. Is that like subtractive EQ? Like find the trouble frequencies and dip them?

That's what you would likely do the first thing before anything else.

DementedLegacy 05-11-2016 06:46 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JFreak (Post 2355935)
agreed



I would sleep over it and then with a pair of fresh ears listen to this mix VERY LOUD which gives you the idea how much high end there is.

If you're overall satisfied with the sound, just drop a high-shelving EQ to drop the highs. It is hard to tell what you're looking for, but what "everyone" notices is too much high end on vocals. Makes ones ears turn backwards :P


Ok thank you. Good idea. Would you happen to know where trouble frequencies are us usually hiding? I know for every vocal it's different but just a starting point?

studiostuff 05-11-2016 07:38 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Before you go nuts with EQ and listening loud(...?), listen to your mix on many different speakers in many different locations. Get a feel for the sort of damage that may be happening to your mix by being played through your speakers. If your mix seems bright to other listeners, your speakers may not be accurately reproducing high frequencies.

If, after you do that, it still seems too bright to you, grab your EQ and go nuts. I like to BOOST a NARROW (Hi-Q) frequency region and dial the frequency selector around until you hurt yourself. THAT is your problem region. Switch to CUT, BROADEN (reduce the Q) the frequency region a little and gently cut a dB or two and see how you like your mix now.

Also, instead of listening loud, listen very quietly. That can help reveal if the balance between elements in your mix is the way you want it.

JFreak 05-11-2016 07:50 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DementedLegacy (Post 2355971)
Ok thank you. Good idea. Would you happen to know where trouble frequencies are us usually hiding? I know for every vocal it's different but just a starting point?

female sibilance 5k, male sibilance 8k, "overall too much high" +10k

JFreak 05-11-2016 07:56 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by studiostuff (Post 2355979)
Also, instead of listening loud, listen very quietly. That can help reveal if the balance between elements in your mix is the way you want it.

That is true, regarding the track balance; however, listening to a mix very quietly usually over-emphasizes high end, which might be the root cause for this problem.

I still recommend listening to this very loud :) But bear in mind that you can only listen to loud mix for very few minutes, so you need to know that you're listening to (low-high) spectral balance instead of track balance.

K Roche 05-11-2016 08:25 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JFreak (Post 2355984)
That is true, regarding the track balance; however, listening to a mix very quietly usually over-emphasizes high end, which might be the root cause for this problem.

I still recommend listening to this very loud :) But bear in mind that you can only listen to loud mix for very few minutes, so you need to know that you're listening to (low-high) spectral balance instead of track balance.

Definitely a good practice to listen at different levels before deciding the mix is ready for prime time.

JuanPC 05-11-2016 10:01 AM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
the female voice sounds like a Dentist Drill...
specially at 2:30
https://youtu.be/Em1jHFEpC7A?t=5m

the male voice sounds in the back ground.

"one is too close and annoying the other is too far an mellow."


the guitar riff, sounds ok, but shy...
try using a 12ax7 tube emulator to give more balls to some things.


what i´ve seen in RAP music, is that they try to hide an incredible engineering in dark tone.

DementedLegacy 05-11-2016 10:36 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by studiostuff (Post 2355979)
Before you go nuts with EQ and listening loud(...?), listen to your mix on many different speakers in many different locations. Get a feel for the sort of damage that may be happening to your mix by being played through your speakers. If your mix seems bright to other listeners, your speakers may not be accurately reproducing high frequencies.

If, after you do that, it still seems too bright to you, grab your EQ and go nuts. I like to BOOST a NARROW (Hi-Q) frequency region and dial the frequency selector around until you hurt yourself. THAT is your problem region. Switch to CUT, BROADEN (reduce the Q) the frequency region a little and gently cut a dB or two and see how you like your mix now.

Also, instead of listening loud, listen very quietly. That can help reveal if the balance between elements in your mix is the way you want it.

Ok thank you. I do that in different spots?

DementedLegacy 05-11-2016 10:37 PM

Re: My first mixed song any Advice
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by JuanPC (Post 2356016)
the female voice sounds like a Dentist Drill...
specially at 2:30
https://youtu.be/Em1jHFEpC7A?t=5m

the male voice sounds in the back ground.

"one is too close and annoying the other is too far an mellow."


the guitar riff, sounds ok, but shy...
try using a 12ax7 tube emulator to give more balls to some things.


what i´ve seen in RAP music, is that they try to hide an incredible engineering in dark tone.

All I have are the Protools stock plugins

TheEdster75 06-16-2016 01:24 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Ok, so I recorded this album 5 years ago and started off on Cakewalk Sonar 8 to 8.5 to X1 on a PC to finally upgrading everything to an iMac running Pro Tools 11 and basically turning my 2nd bedroom into a home recording studio.

It's a 10 song album with 3 loaded up on Soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/sutterville

It's an Alternative/Indie Rock album. Some of my friends have said it's got a bit of an Emo feel to it here and there.

I took many courses online from Joe Gilder at Home Recording Studio to Graham Cochrane at The Recording Revolution. Mixed everything with stock plugins, but because I had a few Steven Slate Plug-Ins and use his SSD4 for my drums, I ended up getting the Audio Legends Mixing Course with Chris Lord Alge and I ended up remixing everything with the Slate Digital Bundle monthly deal package and following the CLA Method of mixing on it and for the most part loved it.

I used Steven Slate Drums 4 with the CLA Expansion pack for the drums. Guitar I used Postive Grid's Bias FX and Amp, along with Choptones Amp Match patches. I used their Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier patches for the distorted rhythm guitars and used their Engl Powerball 2 patches for any lead or melody guitar work. Bass I just used the strait original recorded sound. Half the clean guitar work were sound loops and the other half were me.

I wrote the songs, played almost all the guitar, played all the bass, sang all the songs, arraigned all the drum midi to match what I was doing, did all the mixing and I mastered each song on the master fader using a series of Virtual Console Collection, Slate Digital Red Compressor, Virtual Tape Machine and the FG-X Limiter/Master plug-in..

Hope you like it! Please give me some feedback. What you like. What you don't like. What you think I could have done better. Currently getting ready to work on a follow up album, so any advice would sure be appreciated. Thanks!

Raoul23 06-22-2016 05:20 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
i havent posted in this part of the forum for a long time. Here are 2 samples of some work ive done recently. This one had a bigger budget by the band so a little more time was spent plus the musicianship is a little better, which always helps when recording/mixing i find.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/74ek4hyx7q...0fade.mp3?dl=0

This one had a very small budget so things were done quicker than normal plus these are young guys who have just started up.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmcq76ibe3...r%201.mp3?dl=0

I'd love for people to have a listen and give me some constructive points on what is good and what is bad. I'm always up for learning to improve my mixes/recordings. Thanks in advance :-)

YYR123 06-24-2016 12:59 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Sounds great, I'm on headphones so who knows how it sounds on monitors....

I like the first group, the time changes and it's got a groove

The 2nd sounds nice, but I personally like a little bit more buzz in my distorted rhythm guitars... Upper mid range....a la Joan Jett.

But it might just be my headphones!!! Cheers

amagras 08-13-2016 02:37 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
My band is about to release a 3-song EP and I would like to hear what you think of my mixes. Feel free to criticize without compassion, as i'm not a profesional mixing engineer it will only help me :) Thanks in advance!!!
https://youtu.be/3E_6oCKBZvM
https://youtu.be/M4Ih5-y5ymA
https://youtu.be/N40mF71axx4

albee1952 08-13-2016 05:09 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKBcleNLWk

Muddy-T 10-16-2016 10:17 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Five new instrumental tracks on SoundCloud; Muddy-T - Sleeping With Aliens

Make Music, Not War.

Ferrante 10-20-2016 02:51 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Hey guys!
I found an isolated Whitney Houston vocal track and made a remix of it:
Only hardware synthesizers, samplers and drum machines used.

https://soundcloud.com/bobengstrand/...ngstrand-remix

Southsidemusic 10-20-2016 04:45 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Ferrante (Post 2390580)
Hey guys!
I found an isolated Whitney Houston vocal track and made a remix of it:
Only hardware synthesizers, samplers and drum machines used.

https://soundcloud.com/bobengstrand/...ngstrand-remix

Love it !!! Sounds like the 80's but modern take of that sound and the era :-)

Great Job !!

fracturematt1 11-17-2016 07:43 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Here's a 3 song EP I posted last month. Instrumental ambient prog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaG8wpH6y3U

SilverBeat 01-01-2017 11:34 AM

I'll Be Doing All Right
 
https://www.reverbnation.com/silverb...doing-all-rght

I may not Know
Every thing that I should
But I'm getting by just fine
I may not have done
Every thing that I could
But the stars and sun still shine
So if you come around
Don't bring me down
I don't want to hear your bla bla bla

Chorus

I'll be doing all right
Without your excitation's
I'll be doing just fine
Without your solititations of right

I'm may be slow
Every now and again
I'll keep working on my fast
I can loss my cool
Every time I'm a pain
But I'm sure that it won't last
So if you come around
Don't bring me down
I don't want to hear your bla bla bla

Repeat chorus

The sun gonna shine
Rains gonna fall
i'll be doing just fine
Though it all

banjo71 01-18-2017 02:29 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
I'm sort of a newbie, but here's some acoustic bluegrass in an original instrumental called "Mainline Runner." I'd appreciate any comments on the mix because I'm fairly new at this stuff. I worked a long time getting the mud out of the lower end.

Doug Knecht - banjo
Andy Hatfield - guitars, acoustic bass
Mark Stoffel - mandolin
Ron Stewart - fiddle

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangou...9791&archived=

SilverBeat 01-23-2017 10:14 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
This is my December 2016 song, I completed the final mix yesterday

The Way She Smiles - Listen at - https://www.reverbnation.com/silverb...way-she-smiles

I never Saw her eyes
If I would have
I would have seen through the lies
She never let me in
If she would have
She would have Thought less to sin

Chorus

I really love the way she smiles
I really need the way it makes me feel inside
I'm gonna miss the way she smiles
I'm gonna miss the things she never had to hide, the good times

So many times I tried
Tried to reach out
To a love that must of died
So tender is the pain
When you love her
And you find your loves in vain

Repeat Chorus

So many ways she delights me
So many ways she excites me
But I can't ignore the rain

tgold 02-02-2017 04:25 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Does anyone know how to start a NEW THREAD on here?

K Roche 02-02-2017 10:50 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tgold (Post 2410489)
Does anyone know how to start a NEW THREAD on here?

Just go to the General Discussion (The forum this thread is in) and click the "New Thread" box at the top left.

brad383music 03-14-2017 06:21 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
https://youtu.be/wcZ0imTjdkw

A little instrumental track called Searching. I had a lot of fun creating this. I hope you enjoy listening and getting lost in the music.


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TOM@METRO 03-14-2017 09:03 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by brad383music (Post 2418455)
https://youtu.be/wcZ0imTjdkw

A little instrumental track called Searching. I had a lot of fun creating this. I hope you enjoy listening and getting lost in the music.


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Nice! I'm impressed.

jeam25 03-14-2017 09:05 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
I second TOM words , that sounds really good !

brad383music 03-14-2017 11:18 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO (Post 2418510)
Nice! I'm impressed.



Thank you sir


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brad383music 03-14-2017 11:18 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by jeam25 (Post 2418512)
I second TOM words , that sounds really good !



Thank you very much!


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masonicweird 03-26-2017 08:00 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
This is my most recent endeavor:

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vb-lVpok-vc

Southsidemusic 03-26-2017 08:49 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by masonicweird (Post 2421320)

Dat linky no worky :D

musicman691 03-27-2017 05:57 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by masonicweird (Post 2421320)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southsidemusic (Post 2421330)
Dat linky no worky :D

Same here; it's not a legitimate YouTube link.

K Roche 03-30-2017 10:46 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Not my latest but, I thought it might be interesting to post this little instrumental ditty I conjured up using only the VI's bundled in Pro Tools called "No Regrets"

https://soundcloud.com/kevwind/noregrets

masonicweird 03-30-2017 01:21 PM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
WHOOPS! Y'all are right! here's a good link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQ09vc5Zmg

The commentary goes until 4:24. Skip there if you just want to get to the music.

TOM@METRO 03-31-2017 08:45 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by K Roche (Post 2422059)
Not my latest but, I thought it might be interesting to post this little instrumental ditty I conjured up using only the VI's bundled in Pro Tools called "No Regrets"

https://soundcloud.com/kevwind/noregrets

Cool. What did you use for the bass?

albee1952 03-31-2017 11:28 AM

Re: Let's hear your latest stuff....right here
 
http://www.buddyjewell.com.hostbaby.com/music/

Release party on Sunday, April 2. Had a blast on this one as Buddy is one of the nicest guys in the biz and a damn fine singer:D


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