Shaun Schwanke- Dead To the World Mix/Remix

Hey, Shaun, that´s a great mix, man!

I really like what you did with the drums, taking so much time to polish them that way. It´s hard work!

I like the bass tone a lot too.

The only thing is that the overheads on the drum sound a bit mono to me. At least not wide panned, you can notice that on the crash hits. Besides that, drums sound quite good.

Congrats and good luck!

@schaun : “The level of fuckery i went through on these drums was something else, it was a convoluted process for sure. Sorry for the long post here, but this is what i did. I went through and stripped all noise from all shells on the original tracks. I multisampled the original hits the best i could. Created my own samples (.TCI Files) from the original drums here, but i pre-processed them heavily. I then created midi from the original drum files so i could more easily move around the kicks and hits that were a little all over the place timing wise throughout. Then i used Slate trigger to retrigger the performace using the original drum samples i created from the track. I tuned the snare up, quite a bit, and used some augmentation with samples from my own person drumkit to give a little more beefiness to the toms, and kick. Good ear! ”

Holy shit dude ! You went ballistic with this !
This is something something i would with a full release (EP or album) except that i would use clean samples i would have made from the recording. Must have been very cumbersome but makes plenty of sense,, considering these days multiband gates and stuff allow us to filter live tracks a lot and make them almost clean (aka bleed free).

I really love the fact that you made the most out of the original drums, and that you tuned that snare up (i love cranked snares, and i almost always tune then up when i use virtual snares from like Superior Drummer or something).

@shaun : “Vocals on this were the easiest part to mix, i felt they were recorded the best from this session for sure”

Big time !

Hi Shaun, your mix tone sounds fine. In the middle of dark and bright. it seems like you put a lot of work on isolation. Very define. In my opinion, If the vocal makes a bit wider /closer/colour, maybe it can match the vibes you create. and the kick seems like losing some lows attack when it hits. I don’t know which reason caused it, or maybe a phase issue. I hope that can help you. As I mentioned before in my post, I am not that familiar with the metal genre, so I can only tell you something subjective.