Ou7shined Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Here's my latest DAW attempt... number four I think. Again it's just a riff idea to pass onto the guys in the band (Holiday Dog) that got out of hand... but this time I really tried a lot harder to get a decent sound. I'm really enjoying playing with my Addictive Drums vst - some of you may remember my first attempt having a loop from my Korg PX4D running right the way through . This is just an instrumental version and no real structure worked out - I do have a vocals to go with it but I've just not gotten around to recordiung them... I think I lack the nuts to blast them out in the house... I just sing them at rehearsals. Btw this is my first try at making a vid (windows live movie maker). I showed it to a mate and his initial comment was "Is it supposed to look like that?" If I were to redo any of the recordings I would probably use a bit of fuzz (Mastotron) on some of the bass parts as I think it feels a little bland. Having not listened to it for a while I notice the rhythm guitar probably needs more work but I'm not sure what - I gave it quite a pinched mid eq'ing - like a wah being held down but I think it may be coming across a bit more fizzley than I'd want... could just be my speakers. But generally as far as levels go how am I doing? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srrCVrpcn8A&feature=youtu.be[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 my first instinct is that the snare needs to come down a touch, and the bass needs some of ultra low end cutting out and maybe the whole level brought down a touch the guitars sound good, just sound like they are getting a bit drowned out by the bass and drums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ou7shined Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 [quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1335877286' post='1637364'] my first instinct is that the snare needs to come down a touch, and the bass needs some of ultra low end cutting out and maybe the whole level brought down a touch the guitars sound good, just sound like they are getting a bit drowned out by the bass and drums [/quote] Nice one thanks. Hardly surprising as those are my favorite bits. I keep telling myself that the art of mixing is probably in not letting your own favorite things becoming too dominant... but it's hard not to. My g/f told me early on in the mixing that the drums sounded like they were too separate (like in a different room) I think it was because of too much reverb - is that still there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 there may be a touch too much reverb now i listen again, but i wouldnt say they sound like they are in another room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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