Thread: mix critique

Can you link to the band page? Or give the band name so I can go through the band page? The player doesn't work for me otherwise.

Muddy low end.
Bass and guitars are very dull.
Drums are dead and mono.
Too much reverb form my taste.

I heard mud as well. Start by rolling off the low end on everything but the kick and bass. If that sounds thin, add some back in on the guitars and may be the toms. It sounds like the bass guitar is LP filtered. A little more punch at 1k on the bass would be nice, doesn't sound like there is too much there. Little more high end on the acoustic guitar would be good. Push down the lows on the reverberation, that will help with the mud as well.

It is a little washed in reverberation especially the 1e, 2e 3e 4e guitar part on the 2nd song. You don't have a reverb plug in on the main bus do you? Move it to a Aux bus if you do, and feed it from the tracks. I would do less on the guitar and vocals to put them forward. Less on the snare too, it needs some help.

Did you have a cable problem on the vocal microphone at the start, or can you fix that? Something is buzzing at the very end. Sounds like the microphone grill on an SDC near the bass guitar amp?

so i did all of the things posted on here, all of the things i could understand that is. I'm not sure about the LP filter on the bass, does that mean low pass filter? i don't have that on the bass, so whatever.
i still think the guitars in the second one are muddy, but i don't know how to fix that. I also noticed there might be a bit to much reverb on the drums, just now, in that same tune. not to sure, I'll revise it later.
what else needs to be done?
and thanks so much for the help so far.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandid=899300&content=music"

I was able to listen this time. I listened to 2.2.
The bottom end is waaay to heavy. And it's not really even the bottom end, it feels like low mids or something.
What kind of EQ have you done to this?
What eq are you using and how?

I think the bigger question is how are you listening to your mix? If your room sucks, and your speakers suck, your mix is going to suck.

Nice! That is much better. I like the "telephone band pass" at the beginning. You are right, by LP I did mean Low Pass. Whatever you did worked, the bass does sound more distinct. There does seem to be a hump in the low mids. Low mid boost coupled with thick reverb can be a problem. May be that is what is going on here?

The bottom end is total muddy soup - way to much, and no clarity.