Recent content by Jake93

I'll be cheeky and borrow your ears for another one, it probably has the same flaws in the ending loud bit after 1 minute. The drums are just EQ, everything else goes to a separate bus which is very compressed in pretty much the exact 400-5khz range you mentioned. I think maybe the snare is too...

Thank you, that's very helpful advice. Jake

Wow ok, the more I listen to these threads the more I feel I've totally missed the mark. So difficult to get a loud noise sounding good.

Hello, Me and a friend have been recording on a very amateur level, I mic'd a kit in a practice room with a fairly cheap 4 mic set, and have recorded all the other elements in my spare office room. It's never going to sound really good, I just want it to be listenable. Basically, I have left...

I'm looking for some practice, I'd like to attempt to master something other than one of my own mixes. Thank you, Jake

Yeah I think that too, and I don't really like the 2nd version I posted for that reason. I don't think I can do too much about the harshness of the cymbals without affecting the snare sound, it's a pretty cheap set of condenser mics. We're a post rock instrumental band and I like the ambient...

Thanks both, Does this sound better to you?

Hi guys, I have a part to an instrumental track that I quite like, however I fear it's lacking warmth. Not that I dislike it though, it's just when I listen to almost any other songs they sound way warmer, almost stifled in comparison. I've tried boosting around the 200-300hz or even adding a...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and the first thing I'm doing is selfishly asking for you guys to critique my mix. My friend and I have been working on a few instrumental tracks for an EP. I've opted for a very low budget home "recording studio". This pretty much consists of SONAR home studio...