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les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien
There's so much stuff you could try but it really depends on your taste.

A handful of things I might consider with this recording are:

1. double-tracking the bass and panning one centre-left and one centre-right, rather than just riding the centre.

2. adding a dash of clean reverb to the kick and snare respectively. Personally I feel it's really the drum's that're flattening this piece out

3. As everyone's been saying, the compression needs tweaking. what i said about double-tracking and panning the bass part can actually help you find a lot of space for cutting the compression there and opens up room for the guitar


As for it sounding weaker on some systems, that's pretty typical with a lot of even pro-mastered metal. Try listening to anything with a 5-string bass through junk computer speakers; pointless. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum springs to mind. But generally your target audience are the kind to care about sound quality anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much about that as what I'm hearing through my MDRs is pretty great!

Everything above is just suggestions; as i said to start with, it's all about your taste and you being happy with it. Those are just some things you can experiment with.

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