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First off, great job! This well done for home recording and for the tech metal genre. I especially like the bass tone you got. Some thoughts: I know you said you just added a mastering plug in to add some polish and bring the volume up, but yeah it'd be great if we could hear it w/o any post production. And not to hurt your feelings, but leave the post productin to a pro. I have been self recording for years, and I still pay the big bucks to have someone else master. You are going a great job with the tracking, so let that shine by having someone else put the polishing touches on, second set of ears, better monitors, yadda yadda. I was curious if you have a global room reverb happening on the whole mix, or just seperate thru aux or single plug ins on each instrument? Feels like just a little too much verb for the genre. Or too large of a room setting. You have nice tight guitar sounds, but they kind of get blurred when everything is playing. I know it might suck to hear since it sounds like you worked so hard in good guitar sounds, but either bring them down just a touch or maybe use a low cut filter to cut everything under at least 40 if not 60hz. A single guitar might sound a little thin then, but once you add a second, plus bass, drums, etc everything is fighting for that low end space. You' debate surprised at how much low end is cut in metal guitars if you soloed them. Also, the drums seem a little low in volume IMHO but hey, I am a drummer  I assume you are using triggered drum samples, like BFD or whatever? NarkyBark posted:I have added verb/delays to all of the hit drums; you definitely hear it with the drums alone but less so with the band. I did scale it back from my original setting since it seems like techy metal tends to have a drier sound. One thing that may be hurting me is that I do have some pretty severe EQ settings to carve out individual drums, to separate all the instruments. Maybe I should relax that a bit... Again, maybe you won't need to use such extreme EQ on the drums if you dry them up, and look cut some of the extreme lows on the guitars. Don't worry, it'll still sound heavy! Check out Nile records for some "warm " and not overly hyped (well in comparison to most techy metal) drum sounds at still have a ton of clarity during faster parts. Edit - plus when you get it mastered the compression will tend to bring out the reverb as it flattens the levels of everything, which is why going a little drier than you think a "professional" recording sounds will actually get you to that point after the post production. Hope that makes sense? Interstitial Abs fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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