RECORDING 41 - Try any compressor, or limiter. Set a compressor to a fairly high ratio though. TBH, I don't worry about the overall volume of my recordings. There's more problems in mine than just volume, but hey. You could just send it to a mastering studio, or

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:10 am

Hi

I just finished mixing a song and I wanted to hear someone else's opinion. I've been trying a lot of different eq settings and mixing on the past week, but I'm not actually 100% satisfied with it. Any suggestions & critiques are accepted.

P.S.: Sorry for any weird accent in my english.

Here it is:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=817254&songID=6959256

Thanks

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:32 am

Nice man,

Maybe push the bass down a little in the mids, and boost it in the low end. Just a little, I like the tone you have, but it is a little too present in the mix. I don't have an EQ on this computer, but it sound like something is missing at 3k until the harmony vocals come in. I would boost 3k on the lead vocal as well. To fill it out a little more.

Some fancy foot work with the EQ.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:21 pm

Did you hard limit everything? Everything sounds loud. but well balanced. If you did maybe try it with a little less. If not, I'm crazy then.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:11 am

Thanks GeckoMusic and Eric.

Eric, I did hard limit everything. I compared it with some professionaly mixed songs and it wasn't as loud, so I thought it was ok. Anyways, I'm looking for a dirty sound.

I made some changes on the mix based on feedbacks I got, what do you think now?

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=817254&songID=6976929

Thanks!

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:28 am

Sounding pretty good now. I think you laid back a bit on the HL, sounds a bit more dynamic. I wasn't trying to imply that you should not use, it just sounded like it was a bit to much before.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:12 am

Thanks Eric!
Yeah, I agree with you about the HL!

I still think the overall volume of the mix is a little bit low compared to the professional recordings.
What do you think?
What plugin can I use to get more volume, if needed?

Thanks

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:16 am

Try any compressor, or limiter.
Set a compressor to a fairly high ratio though.

TBH, I don't worry about the overall volume of my recordings. There's more problems in mine than just volume, but hey.

You could just send it to a mastering studio, or be happy with music that has dynamics and isn't SLAMMING UP IN YOUR FACE ALL THE TIME and autotuned to hell and back.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:43 pm

Compression can help. Hard limiting can as well just try different setting until it sounds best to you without loosing the overall quality that you put in your mix. I am by no means even a confidant amateur. I've just done that to my mix before. I think those mastering settings are better left to pro's at this point in my recording journey.

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