Engineer's Feedback Forum Part 2

[unsane]

alright, here's the mix i promised a few weeks ago. it's a Sepultura cover, Slave New World that a friend and i did for fun. thought i'd start a new topic because the previous one was a little messy,and its not like theres a mass of new threads in this forum anyway...


http://download.yousendit.com/82A8350D74020028
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vqv13y

i'll post up the full recording chain and some mix techniques later if anyone's interested.

comments and feedback are most welcome, i think the low end might be slightly overbearing, probably due to my mix environment and penchant for massive kick drums

 

[blueprintstudios]

overall good stuff, but for this genre i would have preferred the guitars heavier sounding. sounds like you ran it through the line6 podxt pro (you got a mesa triple rect right?) and the "oomph" isn't cutting through as well as the growls of the vocalist / kickdrum.

just wondering how come you run nice heavy reverb/delay/efx for the vox but you don't apply it to the snare.. needs more (i feel) "ring"/snare tail. that big impact-y feeling.

lead/solo guitars at the last part would have just wanted it jacked up a little louder then should be okay.

bass just needs abit louder in my opinion.

cymbals/toms/kick/vox are definitely good to go.

good performance/production in general for a "for fun" song. heheh

50¢ worth.

 

[blueprintstudios]

oh yeah do state the recording chain.

 

[unsane]

ahh sorry for the late reply been a hectic week.

heh you nailed it on the guitar tone, its a modeller. we recorded this in melbourne, didn't have any of my amps with me. i've got a recto recording pre though,not a triple rect heh.

drums - utter shite,beat to hell basix kit.

kick - beta 52 and yamaha subkick - 52 was obviously replaced with samples,but the subkick track sounded great. heavily gated/eq'd and mixed in for the low end oomph.
snare - 57 - replaced - shit snare.
toms - MD421s and a D112 egg on the floor tom - these sounded MONEY despite the terrible drums,but way too much china bleed on the tracks, i grudgingly replaced them..a real waste.
overheads - rode nt5s, spaced pair. - spent the most time on these and pretty happy with the way they turned out, even though it was recorded in a pretty small and dead room.

drums all went through the pre's in a control 24, goddamn i hate those.

guitars - johnson j-station on the recto model, cab sims bypassed and running through a palmer PDI-09 DI/cab sim. you can still tell its a modeller, but the palmer is definately a vast improvement over the inbuilt cab sims. oh and the wah on the solo is actually a plugin,with my drummer using the mouse to drag a slider onscreen while i played hahaa.

bass - borrowed warwick fortress into a sansamp DI. definately needs to be louder like you said..my bad here.

vox - good old SM58 into a m-audio DMP3 pre. handheld,no pop shield,monitors cranked and going for it like i was onstage. 3 takes all the way through and comp'd from there. im really stoked with the vocal sound and performance..

acck. more to come later if anyones interested.

 

[blueprintstudios]

what's a beat to hell basix kit?? triggers?

yeah overall it's cool for the vox. i always felt dynamic mics works quite alright for growl/screamos instead of condensers.

keep em coming heheh.

 

[unsane]

oh basix is just the brand of the crap drumkit kicking around the studio.. horribly worn heads, lugs that wont hold tune for more than a minute.. been trying to get out of using samples but with kits like that..sigh

 

[blueprintstudios]

well like I always say... make the best out of the worst. I'd trigger pots and pans if I had to.