Hi buddy,

Cheers for the feedback, funnily enough this was posted a month ago and you’ve prompted me to upload the newer versions, you’re right the mix was a touch thin and lacked a bit more bottom end grunt, not sure where the “2k added” comes in though.

The note about the guitars, whilst I agree to an extent, this is still *metal* afterall, so they are going to be upfront, but aside from it’s genre I certainly wouldn’t say they are dominating the mix, the song maybe, and the genre to suit, but I don’t think from a mix context but I appreciate your feedback nonetheless – out of interest what did you audition the mix on?

The problem that occurs is that the guitars in some tracks are tuned quite low (drop G in some instances on a 7-string) however the bass note fundamental is lower than human hearing, so it’s the trick of making the bass sound like it’s there when it actually isn’t ironically, the main issue has been adding warmth say 2-400hz but not getting too muddy etc…

Also on another sidenote, you’ll never get me using waves plugins – I love fabfilter, crysonic, blue cat audio, izotope, voxengo etc but waves are horribly sterile, in that instead of adding colour I find they take away character from various sources I’ve tried, good phase alignment, sidechaining and EQ’ing will be the technique for the bass….

I’ll post a note when the new mixes are up, see what you think, thanks for the feedback, I know it’ll come across as a touch elitist however I’m aware of the techniques it’s just tuning my ears and working what translates to other systems without ending up with an iPod mix….

Cheers again for taking the time to reply!

Regards

D.