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ORIGINAL: Airhead

hey man.. the tune sounds sweet.
nice balance on the guitars.
i do feel the drums where a bit week and could need to be lifted higher in the mix and ad a bit depth/punch on the Kick.
/Airhead

Yeah, I had a number of mixes where I was doing a balancing act with both those things. One mix in particular the snare was way to loud and I think it scared me off. Haha. But I do think it though it sounds good, it is slightly buried. At least some of it’s sound is. Kicks I’m always wary of. I usually hate too much kick, I wanna feel it and slightly hear it, but too much and my ears zero in on it too much. But I’ll definitely take your suggestions.

I am a guitarist first and foremost so I’m not surprised the guitars turned out the best. They were fighting me a lot, but I finally got the rhythm guitars to sit nice and present themselves pretty well.

Thanks for the input! I’ve been playing music for over 20 years, but my recording engineer hat has always been a part time thing and I’ve only recently decided to try to actually record well, and not just play and write well.

Mac Mini M1 | Studio One 6 | PreSonus 68c | EZD3

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A lot of good moments in there. Good job. Is the piano all from the included MIDI library, or did you tweak them in your DAW, or was it played by you?

Mac Mini M1 | Studio One 6 | PreSonus 68c | EZD3

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ORIGINAL: chrisharbin

Certainly won’t be me 😉

+1 from me of course. I’ve actually not been using EZmix 2 as much as I thought I might. In fact, 99% of the time, there’s always some aspect of a preset I want to control and I can’t, and I end up getting much better results (and pretty quickly too) with my other plugins. Hopefully it will prove it’s worth soon. Any preset expansions are definitely out of the question though. lol.

Mac Mini M1 | Studio One 6 | PreSonus 68c | EZD3

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ORIGINAL: ronnieg

Downloading as i type. But agree with Skiltrip, How many Frikin’ drums do i need!!!!!

lol…..

Oh so true. But I really am thrilled with Americana. I’m glad I didn’t hesitate. I also picked up Metal Machine a day or so before, and for rock/punk/whatever that EZX is awesome too.

The only drum purchase regret I have over the past few months is Steven Slate Drums 4.0. Don’t get me wrong, the drums themselves sound awesome, and most of the time, they instantly sit in a mix even better than the Toontrack EZX stuff. But I’m not crazy about the cymbals. And there isn’t any sampled choked cymbals. They use MIDI note-off to simulate chokes, and that just sounds horrendous. The biggest shiv in the side about Slate Drums is there is no license transfer aloud. So once you got it, you got it. The new Slate 4.0 player has been crazy unstable as well, though the newer version 1.086 seems a little more solid. Nowhere near the stability you get with EZdrummer or Superior Drummer though.

Let’s face it, it’s an addiction. The next wave of Toontrack EZX’s will probably suck me in yet again. Resistance is futile.

Mac Mini M1 | Studio One 6 | PreSonus 68c | EZD3

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I’m actually surprised that there hasn’t been any comment on the pack, as most new Toontrack releases generate a lot of feedback from end users. Surely someone out there has to have picked this up.

Mac Mini M1 | Studio One 6 | PreSonus 68c | EZD3

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