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in reply to: Shaun Schwanke- Dead To the World Mix/Remix #11780
Dude you made your own drum samples??! That’s pretty killer, they sound great. I wouldn’t have even thought of that honestly. I had a miserable time working with that left kick and balancing the two. I ended up layering in a kick sample I already had with the D4 to get a better sound with original kicks, but it was a one shot. Great job and great idea, \m/.
I don’t get this website. Yeah I over eq’d the guitars and cut too much mids, they were already scooped. I honestly thought the cymbals were harsher though, I put some saturation on the overheads. As for the bass or lack of, it was 90% the global eq I didn’t need in the first place. The last car test still sounded muddy and I rushed for a bandaid because I didn’t want to miss the deadline. I thought a 6dB/octave high pass would be a light enough touch, but I put it at 39Hz which was just overkill. All that said, I’m still very happy with my mix. Mostly because it’s literally my first ever full and complete mix, and it’s at least not junk, but also because it was so much fun to do. I also learned more in a month than the last couple years just working on my own projects, so It’s a win for me no matter what.
in reply to: Malamor – Sharing your techniques #11661I apologize if this gets double posted, I guess my login timed out while I was writing this. I haven’t made a mix rundown video yet, but I will this weekend hopefully. I just wanted to keep the old school death metal sound as much as I could. I really didn’t didn’t want to use any samples other than effects, but that left kick drum just sounded like duct tape on a blown head. I thought it was one kick with a beater and reso mic at first, until I zoomed in and saw the alternating pattern. I got the left kick cleaned up pretty well, but it still sounded completely different than the right kick. I ended up blending both with the D4 and another sampled kick. Guitars, I just did some eq and a smidgen of reverb and some compression. I think I should have skipped the compression there. On the bass I did some eq, comp and verb for the amp, then doubled the DI for a low clean and dirty high and blended them with the amp. On the vox, I blended a stereo stem of all vocals with a little grit added from lil tube with the three vocal tracks routed to the main vocals bus that has eq, light limiting, compression, and verb. The main vocals have some compression and eq, the backup vocals have reverb and Kilohearts phase distortion, and the end vocals just have some verb and eq. I did a touch more verb and eq on the master bus, but I had too much highpass. Sounds great on my phone, I should have stuck to my reference track more in the car test though I think. Also, lots of volume automation all around. I didn’t want to do a static mix, I wanted to draw the performance out and keep it dynamic and a bit raw. These tracks had that kind of energy, it felt like being in the old jam shack again mixing this stuff. That’s what I wanted to shine through in my mix, that raw energy of the performance they put down in the studio.
in reply to: Andrew Johansen – Dead To The World – Mix #7565Good one, very full sounding.
in reply to: Dave Studio – Dead To The World Mix Contest 2022 #7562Tight mix, I like it.
in reply to: Luke Bogart – Dead To The World Mix Contest 2022 #7548That bass is gnarly, I dig it.
in reply to: Malamor – Dead To The World 2022 Mix/Remix Contest #7543Sounds wicked solid to me, great job.
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