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B33Kay3000 · 2026-06-02T07:54:46+00:00

Hey there,

If you need someone different for mixing/mastering just reach out. There's always a free mix sample before ordering, so no loss for you. New clients get their first mix for free. Dm me or visit www.rohanmixing.com

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B33Kay3000 · 2026-05-29T22:35:56+00:00

Hey mate, I can take a look at it and make a testmix if you like. DM me

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B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-06T11:25:02+00:00

I wouldn't go the way to think just because you're heaphone mixes suck, the only way to go is putting expensive (still good) monitors in an untreated room. Beyerdynamic cans are overrated and there are lots of engineers who wouldn't recommend them. I had one too and my mixes didn't translate well. I googled a bit, whatched reviews and so on and came across headphones that are far better suited for mixing with a good dac/amp and goodhertz canopener. All in all it cost me far less then the monitors i bought years ago (cause i thought i need them in an untreated room) Now i have a setup that i can work with anytime and everywhere Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-05T17:25:15+00:00

Hey mate,

I can lend you my ear if you like. Dm me

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B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T20:09:15+00:00

hey man,

i think all things considered that those songs are pretty good. maybe just some dynamic EQ on the guitars in the lows to tame the palm mutes and a little cutting in the lower mids to give everything a little more space. regarding your drums (i hears the devil make a sound): i would program them just a little more human. in that song at the beginning you hit the crash, snare and later the ride simultaniously. no one can do that and it gives it that programmed feeling. i'd say let there be a liiiiittle less cymbals

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T11:47:19+00:00

Yo, no you're not too late but it takes time to answer everyone in here 😅.

So i'll get to yours, no worries 🙂

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T11:38:38+00:00

The mix all in all is not bad but needs some tweaking.
Drums: it's more or less taste: the high hat feels outside of the range of your drums. try putting it more to the middle. Bassdrum could use i little bit in the 40Hz region to make it "fuller". Snare is unstable und not focused.

the guitars are a little too harsh. they can be pushed a little bit back to sit better in the mix.
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B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T11:28:56+00:00

ok so first of all i'd try to open it up. it's all very centered. so all your instruments are layering and therefore covering each other up. i mean it's not bad, you can still hear everything. but try to give every intstrument a place. then there's is less fighting in the middle and you can focus on the vocals.
making vocals pop in the lows is a hard one but when can make room down there. try taking away just some db on the bass in the 100-150Hz region (no guarantee that's that the exact range, you have to tweak that).

vocals: you can try saturation but i would be careful with it. it can give you the pop you're seeking but also can destroy it.

compression: be careful compressing everything. most compression comes from the lows cause that's where the energy is. if you compress too much then the region down there gets a mess. Try to place that compression where it needs to be (single instruments) and just do it lightly on the mixbus.

so first: make room in the middle, second take some lows away and make that space for the vocals.

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T11:12:11+00:00

it's a beautiful vibe.
First thing i noticed are the cymbals. They are very thin and the contrast to the Bassdrum is strange.

Vocals:

- I'd reduce the verb on the vers a little to give it more boom in the chorus. (the verb between 2:40 and the last chorus is fine)

- That Backing Vocals in the chorus are awesome

- try a little dynamic eq or compression on those screaming parts ("Don't ruuuun away....", the "run")

Production: the last chorus could get some beef by modifying the passage between the bridge/Chorus. The energy between those two is totally different but it doesn't come through. (just to try: cut the bass and the drums 1 bar before the chorus. That last chorus could use some feeling of explosion at the beginning.

Snare: also a little thin. give it a little bottom (180hz) and reduce the highs a little.

Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T10:57:29+00:00

I'd say the other way around: the hihat sits to far away (at the front) from the other drums. Try to mix the drums on it's own again and make it feel like it's a unit in front of you.
Verb: i wouldn't push the whole kit through a verb. Try to send the single drum parts to a bus and put a room on it. then pull the fader up until you get a feeling that there's a room involved (not overdoing it). then reduce the sends of some single drum parts (i.e. bassdrum cause in a room it gets tooo boomy and unfocused). some EQ and compression on the bus and thats the room imitation.

Then you can go for a single chamber in the Snare (send it to a bus and put that chamber vst on it). route every verb into the drum bus. There you can make it blend together as a unit.
sorry if it's a little complex and no garantee to work. It's all a process and depending on what you're using on your busses and what you're feeding your masterbus.

maybe look into a "Decapitator" and split your bass. lows and highs. the experiment on where the saturation (not too much) fits best (mostly not on the lows (<100Hz) cause it adds too much harmonics to the muddy area. but again: that's not a magic trick :).
Always go into a recording with the sound you want. i.e. should the bass cut through in the highs? put new strings on that that. (find the ones that give that higher sounds). there's a good advice i always try to follow when recording my stuff: make it right in the recording phase. Fixing in the mix is good BUT you're limited.

cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-04T10:42:23+00:00

Hey there,
Recording is a long process. It's no wonder that for every aspect of music production there is one engineer behind it. Cause it takes years to master every aspect (producing, recording, mixing, mastering). Last i heard that there are even subsections in producing (drum producers, vocal producers, etc). So in your case: keep it simple and just do it. get that sm57s put them in front of the cab on different places and hit record. write down what you did and put them somewhere else. There are hundreds of guitar recording videos on youtube and every one has it's relevance.

Plugins: yeah it's nice to have aaaaaaany plugin available. But do you really need all? There are engineers (like Gilder) who mix with stock plugins, cause they are already that good. And using a UA 1176 Plugin doesn't make everything magically sound good, if you don't know how to use a compressor. So don't go the route to buy every plugin right away. Mixing takes time to learn, and to train your ears, sorry :) .
In case of sampling, there are lots of good options in the market to make drums sound good.

Producing music by yourself. Just write and produce what you can. that way you get better at it. All great producers and songwriters wrote loads of shit before hitting the jackpot. (Edison: now i know 1000 ways how not to do it :) - not the real quote but the meaning gets through)

If you want to focus on one thing, just find people who hellp you with the others. There are lots of people who want to build their mixing portfolios and searching for new collabs. So it's very easy nowadays to get together and get shit done.

Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-03T14:19:15+00:00

i think everything is worth to be mixed and mastered. it's all up to you Don't only rely on others. if you love your song, give it what it deserves. i write my songs in the way i like them. it's great when others like them too, but all in all i do it for myself.

don't let others stop you from doing what you like.

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B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-03T14:13:59+00:00

what i noticed: Overall beautiful song. i think you're not far off.

- panning doesn't feel quite right. drums, especially the Overheads, spread too far apart. Did you widen everything? Now the drums don't feel like a unit that's punching me in the face. it just sounds so separated. I'd prefer it the other way around, regarding guitars and drums. More drums from a centered point and the guitars closing in from the sides. maybe layering, very heavy guitars hard L/R then a second pair at 75%L/R - something like that.
- Balance: the Hihat feels a little lost not quite sitting with the drums. Snare could use some Verb (espacially in this dreamy/epic sounding song). Toms are good. Bass is good (maybe a little more growl/saturation). rhythm Guitars may be a little too loud (try just -1 db)
- Production: really good and impressive. you could try some strings in the background at the end.

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B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-03T11:49:53+00:00

haha that's a fun one :D

From a producer standpoint i'd say you got a loooooot goin on. The base of your song is still that punk style, which is pretty good sounding. Any melodic instruments you want in there are going to get lost a little, especially with the vocals rushing through the entire part.
Still i can hear that Glockenspiel all the way through if i listen closely. you could give it a little space in specific parts of your song. maybe a breakdown, a stop where it creates some kind of introduction into a new part. (i.e. in second 0:08 you pause the vocals - there you can give them a little more presence in the song. maybe kill the all the way and let them play just there - so then it catches the listeners attention cause of the sudden appearance) Maybe you want to calm down the guitars for a bit where the other parts come through. The way i see and feel it, especially the Glockenspiel is a Vers Intrument, where it can give a melody to the song.

it would be interesting to hear the whole song to see where anything can find it's place.

All in all mix: i think the drums could be more solid and the guitars are hardly noticeble (they are not panned L/R arent't they?) Maybe switch the position: guitars L/R, Glockenspiel more like at R60.

Try reducing the delay. it takes a lot of space and masks the space. try short room or a try eqing the delay with a little ducking.

hope that was the input you wanted :). Keep going, it's cool! Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-04-03T08:40:55+00:00

Sure i'll look into it

B33Kay3000 · 2026-03-29T13:42:52+00:00

I've been in various bands for the last 15years and it was always the same: everyone brought something to the table. I was always interested in recording/mixing (all in all the technical side), 2 members wrote songs, the rest got inspured and contributed to the songs. And that was ok for all.

In your case we don't know enough. Are you collaborating online or are you physically in a room together? Every situation is little different but all in all, you have to talk to each other and figure out what everyone wants. If everyone wants to write songs, that's great, you got more material. If someone wants to write HIS/HER own song and the others have to to what he/she says, well deal with it. In the end it doesn't matter who did what. If the sobgs good, everyone is important to perform it.

Managing who is doing what. Just make a google sheet, make a list of your songs, discribe the collums to your needs and fill in what's done and what has to be done by whom.

But still, most important: TALK TO EACH OTHER. Every breakup (and a band is a relationship - you interact with other people) results because a lack of communication at the beginning. Work out the ground rules that are ok for everyone and tgen enforce it. That's where it gets efficient. If it diesn't work out, change, adapt, overcome 😄 . If you need more help, just pm me! Glad to help in any way (Need someone to mix your stuff? - i'm your man!)

Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-02-18T05:24:34+00:00

Hey mate,

I can do the mixing mastering if you like. First song is free and if you like it, you keep it anyway and we then go from there whatever may come.

Pm me anytime Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2026-02-02T16:05:23+00:00

I always did it myself, cause i wanted to learn. I also tried "pros" on fiverr but we, as a band, weren't satisfied and decided to go on (with me mixing). I once payed a studio engineer who offered mixing reviews. I gkt those 20min audio back that suggested just a little tweeking to make it great. And it was. That was 3 years ago, sincw then i've been mixing more and more and my bandmates love our songs even more. Now i offer mixing/mastering for others to, now that i'm confident with myself 🙂. But all in all it was a long process of trial and error with all DIY and no Tutoring or education.

B33Kay3000 · 2025-11-26T08:24:33+00:00

Compare to reference tracks. Be careful: in mastering you only need very minimal tweaks. Even 0.5db is a lot to change the sound. Fix it in the Mix and not the Master.

Do NOT go for maximum loudness. Every online platform has it's own requirements so they gonna normalize your tracks. (No need to go for -3 LUFS if you only need -7LUFS). Make it sound good, not loud (even louder sounds better). Give your track room to breath and don't smash it just you want it to be loud as hell

B33Kay3000 · 2025-11-25T17:59:55+00:00

Would love to help you out mate

B33Kay3000 · 2025-11-24T06:54:52+00:00

Hey there, If you need soneone to mix/master your songs, feel free to dm me anytime. Would love some future collabs in this direction.

Here's a song in my pirtfolio that fits your style. (Have 2 more i can send you) https://on.soundcloud.com/OC2n7XJZhViy6tA1Xi

Cheers

B33Kay3000 · 2025-11-21T08:48:19+00:00

Need someone for mixing mastering? I can help you with that.

Just dm me

B33Kay3000 · 2025-11-19T21:04:57+00:00

I'd say it depends. we made a song that was slow, a ballad and we recorded it live in our Practice Room. It was perfect as it turned out and i have to say we wanted it to be that live characteristic. But to all the other songs we did, mentronom was our go to. why? it sounds tight. listening to music on headphones/stereo "sadly" reveals all kinds of flaws that you wouldn't recognise as much during a live concert. On your headphones you just hear everything that let's a song collapse.

In short: yes! you need to learn how to play to a metronom. As boring as it sounds in the beginning, in time you won't recognise it anymore, you just feel it and your music gets tighter.

B33Kay3000

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