Friend's Band, my production, "The Way Home"

[ygokazuki]

This is my friends band, I recorded them, wondering if you guys had any tips on mixing?
Here's the mix as it stand now:
http://www.sharethatsong.com/audio/play/785
any input will be greatly appreciated!

[shayne_122]

Well, the drums and bass are nicely placed and recorded, but... the guitars are much too quiet, and have too great of a stereo spread.

...and same with the vocals. Try to centre the vocals quite a bit more, don't scoop the EQ as much, bring up the guitars a LOT, and possibly go 50%L 50%R for each guitar channel.

if you have the possibility of editing seperate drum channels, compress the snare some more, and bring it up around 1-4khz.


Actually, with that being said about EQ, just boost the entire mix's mid. It'll sound much better.

[TravisBarkerrules]

I agree, but you might just want to rerecord the guitar's if at all possible. The bass is eating up your entire track. There is not head room for anything else because of it. Vocals need some compression or something, they are really raw, maybe thats what you want.
Look to record guitar guitar as loud as possible clipping or distoring the recorded(same thing.hehe). This way when you got to mix you will get the most natural sound at lower volume. Make sense?

The issues you could be fixed with a better mix, some eq and compression. Possibly some panning.

But as said before be careful when you boost in eq that you once again dont clip.

I say first:
Take it all to a equal level and mix from the ground up.
Go-Drums, Bass, Rythem, Lead, Vocals, Back up Vocals.

Then:
Start using plugins(compressiong egs and whatnot)

Drums-Multiband Compression if you have it, then some eq I use a vocal preset for my drums that I like for eq. Anything can work with some expermentation.
Bass-I dont do much to bass, compress if it sounds bad, eq the usual.
Guitar- I dont touch, I just mix it. It isnt my job to get my guitarist sound the way they want it after recording.
Vocals- Compression, eq, reverb it improves the record.
Back ups I have no experience, but just use a reference song and get yours to sound like them.