Hard Rock/Metal Tune -FIREPOD

[Healsound]

Hey Slutz-

First post ever.... an awaiting some harsh critisizim(spelling?) I recorded my bands demo using an aray of fine products-

--Im playing drums btw.
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Presonus Firepod 8-input
Cubase SX
WAVES mastering

Drums-
Oktava MK012 overheads XY
Audix D6 Kick
SM57 Snare and Toms

Rythym Guitars- Mesa DualRec Full Stack
SM57 on 1 Speaker, MK012 on other out of phase.
Ran through Behringer Autocom Compressor
Both mixed stereo,
Panned left, overdub panned right

Guitar Solo's-
SM57 kissing mesh on cab, center of cone. panned center
GT55 Room mic panned hard right, or left

Bass Direct, through Behringer AutoCom

Vocals with GT55 too, but didnt track the singer yet!


And an assload of other trick inside Cubase....

RyDog
www.myspace.com/healsound

[Glenn Kuras]

sounds good man.. I hear a few things you might want to try.

Gate the snare. it will get rid of the crap sounds and make it pop out. then put just a little verb on it.

I think I might try not to put so much of a spread on the toms. It sticks out way to much. But that is up to you.

Record 3 more rhythm guitar tracks. I think it will give it more ass. The guitar sounds small. In punk rock we sometimes copy a track and pan it to one side. then cut a lot of low and mids to give it a am radio sound. With the other track it blends nice, but not sure with metal if that is good.

good job.. keep mixing till it is pro..

[Absolute]

Guitars are my thing so I'l just comment on that

I dont see how 3 more guit tracks are gonna help.

You either used a Distortion pedal and killed the recto's real sound .. did massive eq cuts ...or the phase from the 2 mics cancelled all the good tone..because its sounds like an am radio.

Why dont you post up the dry guit tracks(not mic combined).

[everybody's x]

Yeah lose the oktava on the gtr, it's killing it.
multitrack it with the 57, the guitars are too "fizzy" back the gain off the front end and crank it up

"Ran through Behringer Autocom Compressor" lose that too, a tube amp is a compressor, I suspect that is contributing heavily to the general suckiness of the rhythm gtr's (kinda like putting a camper on the back of a ferrari)

you've also got some mix buss compression sucking in the cymbals whenever the kick and snare hits, gives it a phaser sound
"whoosh!" "whoosh"

listen right around :15 for what I'm talking about

drums are a bit loud, but that's what happens when the drummer gets to mix it thumbsup

bass sounds not too groovy, sounds like it's plugged straight into the board. run it through an svt if you can borrow one, or a sansamp.

somebody's quite the shredder

hope that helps

anyway was that brutal enough?

[everybody's x]

oh yeah, welcome to gearslutz!

[Healsound]

Hey thanks for the few comments... I actually have another song here that does not have any "phased out" guitars.... I had the MK012 panned left, and the SM57 panned right. OR maybe it was the other way around!! I just didnt double track it. Anyways, take a listen, have at it!!

HERE is our website... kind of old. BUT it has differnt mixes of the songs. crappy ones!! http://www.purevolume.com/missioncontrol

Ryan
healsound

[Absolute]

Hey

Now thats a real amp sound so if that was the voicing you got on the other track it must the mixing of mic's phasing out .