Your opinions on a drum mix

brettzy

Have a listen to this and let me know what ye think.

The kit was mixed to sit in a mix and not to be played solo plus it's in crappy mp3 format but I'm sure you'll get the idea.


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brettzy

Niall - Dahlia wrote: »

That's a 4kb file brettzy, did you upload the wrong file maybe?

Sorry about that, working now. There is about 5 seconds silence at the start in case your wondering

PaulBrewer

Sounds great ! And a well Phunky drummer too. Who is that? - If I was to be critical there would be 2 things I'd look at .

1. There's a whole heap of Sub going on in the kick. I listened (on cans as I'm out and about) and there seemed to be an excessive low end, sub 100 Hz. I fired up Logic and had a quick peek and there's a lot of energy at 80hz and below. The 80 hz peak is much higher than even the snare's peaks. It's the sort of thing that could cause a lot of grief later on at mastering.

2. Overall the room sounds great - however there does seem to be a little something rowdier around the low mid (315hz me 'puter tells me!!) particularly evident in the tom fill. This is often a problem area. My lugs though it was a bit higher up in the 500 to 700hz range so maybe the energy from the toms at 315 is triggering something at 630 or whatever... of course what would I know?

Overall it sounds very good though.

brettzy

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Sounds great ! And a well Phunky drummer too. Who is that? - If I was to be critical there would be 2 things I'd look at .

1. There's a whole heap of Sub going on in the kick. I listened (on cans as I'm out and about) and there seemed to be an excessive low end, sub 100 Hz. I fired up Logic and had a quick peek and there's a lot of energy at 80hz and below. The 80 hz peak is much higher than even the snare's peaks. It's the sort of thing that could cause a lot of grief later on at mastering.

2. Overall the room sounds great - however there does seem to be a little something rowdier around the low mid (315hz me 'puter tells me!!) particularly evident in the tom fill. This is often a problem area. My lugs though it was a bit higher up in the 500 to 700hz range so maybe the energy from the toms at 315 is triggering something at 630 or whatever...

Overall it sounds very good though.

Great Pair of ears Paul, you were dead right. The only thing is when I high pass filter at 30-50hz the power disapears. That kick seems to need the sub freq's. Anyway, when mastering the full track I eq'ed out the subs and used an exciter to fill the bottom end so it still sound phat without the overpowering sub.

I'll PM you with other news

PaulBrewer

Aye, Yea I could see that ok....

However on day one you'd be annoying the drummer to tune himself up to raise his fundamental into an area you need..

Anyways good work