Susie Soho song for you to mix

trackmixstudio

Had the guys in today (Fitz's band)
We did a song "Eye for an Eye"
Here is the mix from today
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2133088/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye.mp3

I will upload the raw tracks this evening for everyone to have a go at mixing.
Post your mixes in this thread.
Michael

jtsuited

nice song....will give this a go as i haven't mixed a band in about 18 months.

trackmixstudio

Here you are.
A couple of notes on the files:
1.Kik and Snare trigger tracks are audio recordings of Ddrum triggers and are just clicks to use for triggering samples.
2.Guitar tracks are stereo files but should be used as a single mono guitar track (pan both to the same place or bus them). Left channel is sm57 and right channel is md421. Both mics are of the same performance on the same cab and should be blended to taste.

Post any questions and will try to answer them.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WRGYLXU

555MB, 24 bit 44.1K 140bpm

artvandulet

cool. I think I'm gonna give this a go. Just so you all can tell me where I'm going wrong!;)

goatboy1000

Excellent stuff. Going to start on this tomorrow.

henessjon

is it an original as opposed to cover?

i thought the recording day was postponed

ok i have downloaded sounds like a blast will take a while to mix but it will be fun

Dravokivich

Will be keen on checking this out later.

Thanks man!

goatboy1000

http://soundcloud.com/paulrmix/eye-for-an-eye-rough2

I only had an hour at lunch today to start this so it's only knocked out in about 45 minutes.
It's heading in the right direction I think.
Going to fill out the guitars tomorrow with a bit of amp farm on the DI tracks and who knows after that.
Great song to mix though, totally stuck in my head.

DamagedTrax

might have a mess about with this next week. thanks for making available guys

fitz

Tricky mixing your own stuff, here's my first stab at it...probably the first song I've fully mixed beyond a rough demo for writing/arrangement purposes. Really enjoyed the process, and glad to hear others are getting something out of it too!

Mix pointers most welcome:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4444222/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye%20Fitz%20Mix2.mp3

goatboy1000

Here's mix 2.
Still no automation on the mix, just basic balance of faders. Nearly there, another lunch time should do it.
Changed the slap on the vocals to a delay. Beefed up the guitars with some amp farm and some eleven on the DI tracks. Added some synths with Vacuum for the craic. They're fairly low in the mix.

http://soundcloud.com/paulrmix/eye-for-an-eye-rough-mix3

fitz

Did a little mastering on the mix from last night:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4444222/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye%20Mastered%20Mix.mp3

Much happier with this I think, it's tamed down a bit of the boominess in the mix, evening out the bass a bit.

Paul, interesting direction with the synths!

henessjon

i joined soundcloud so i could do your mix but how do you get the link thats not from your account link

sorry or shall just a do you send it link

yeah just copy the link from



ok stupid ??

http://soundcloud.com/henno-1/eye-for-an-eye



double edit i can see/hear i havent got the hang of drums

henessjon

fitz wrote: »

Tricky mixing your own stuff, here's my first stab at it...probably the first song I've fully mixed beyond a rough demo for writing/arrangement purposes. Really enjoyed the process, and glad to hear others are getting something out of it too!

Mix pointers most welcome:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4444222/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye%20Fitz%20Mix2.mp3

dat sounds good

goatboy1000

fitz wrote: »

Paul, interesting direction with the synths!

Yeah, just wanted to do something different with it but synths are REALLY not my thing in general.
Liking your snare and the general guitar sound.
Good song, it's nice to hear someone not hiding their accent on vocals.

goatboy1000

http://soundcloud.com/paulrmix/eye-for-an-eye-master1

Here's my first attempt at a master on this. I had the mix just the way I wanted, but if there's one sure way to make a mess of a mix it's to try mastering it when you don't know what you're doing.
I was armed with an R-compressor, a Q10 and an L2..
I think the guitars are too overpowering in the chorus and it's killing the drum sound I was happy with. But here it is anyway.

progsound

Cheers for the tracks man been looking to mix something a little softer latley, any chance of getting the bass d.i? Was doing some pocketing last night and its a little hard to visually make out some transients on the miced bass track.

Good job on the drum editing btw didnt have to touch em

trackmixstudio

Good to see people enjoying this.
The bass is actually a DI. It was recorded to a track in my template that is named "bass amp".
It is going through Phoenix Audio DRS into Drawmer 1968.
This setup sounds better than a normal DI box and usually better than an amp.
I use an amp where a more aggressive bass sound is required.
The drawmer rounds out the sound a lot so that could be why you are finding the transients a bit hard to find.

I will do a proper mix of this when I get a chance.
The mix in the first post was done quickly at the end of a day of tracking.
I will try to listen to the other mixes posted tomorrow if I get a chance.

goatboy1000

http://soundcloud.com/paulrmix/eye-for-an-eye-final-master

I think that's me finished on this.
I swapped the R-compressor for a C4, swapped the Q10 for a LinEQ and Swapped the L2 for an L3 in the master session.
Great fun to mix. Thanks again for making the files available.

trackmixstudio

Here is a fresh mix
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2133088/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye%20V2.mp3

progsound

So finally got round to doing a mix of this song - here is the link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/749671/eye%20for%20an%20eye-james%20doolan%20mix%202.mp3

Fun song

I re-amped using my mesa dual rec