Gearslutz.com - View Single Post

feefifofum · 13th March 2006

I agree, the drums need work, and can really make or break a metal recording. The kick sounds very muddy, try filtering some of the low-mid content and kicking up the 3-5kHz area. Most of the kit sounds like it needs cleaning up, especially the toms. Again, try filtering some of the woofier frequencies to clean up the attack. If you're using a DAW, I've found a very useful trick is to copy a good tom hit and paste it about 80 times, so you have time to really play with the EQ and find the magic spot.
How many mics did you use on the kit?

For the guitars, I'd just ask the guitarists to dip the ol' gain knob back just a tiny bit. It's not absolutely terrible, but they are suffering from wall-of-white-noise syndrome, especially when they start doing chords. Doing a double of the rhythm parts with a more classic-rock kind of crunchy distortion and blending the two together might do wonders, too.

13th March 2006	#4
feefifofum Gear interested Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	I agree, the drums need work, and can really make or break a metal recording. The kick sounds very muddy, try filtering some of the low-mid content and kicking up the 3-5kHz area. Most of the kit sounds like it needs cleaning up, especially the toms. Again, try filtering some of the woofier frequencies to clean up the attack. If you're using a DAW, I've found a very useful trick is to copy a good tom hit and paste it about 80 times, so you have time to really play with the EQ and find the magic spot. How many mics did you use on the kit? For the guitars, I'd just ask the guitarists to dip the ol' gain knob back just a tiny bit. It's not absolutely terrible, but they are suffering from wall-of-white-noise syndrome, especially when they start doing chords. Doing a double of the rhythm parts with a more classic-rock kind of crunchy distortion and blending the two together might do wonders, too.