Andy Wallace mix

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I like everything EXCEPT the rhythm guitar tone.
Seriously - the rest is rally good & the tone is quite appropriate for the genre but I don't like it - too generic?
 
I kinda like the rythm guitar, nice and raunchy!

But, I think the drums need work, the snare is kinda all over the place, level wise, and the toms come in well in one spot, but are weak in the first fill.

I'd try compressing the snare more, maybe add some saturation to it, get it up there level-wise.
 
johnsuitcase said:
I kinda like the rythm guitar, nice and raunchy!

But, I think the drums need work, the snare is kinda all over the place, level wise, and the toms come in well in one spot, but are weak in the first fill.

I'd try compressing the snare more, maybe add some saturation to it, get it up there level-wise.
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Cheers.
Ill look into the toms.
Could you explain what you mean by saturation of the snare.

Cheers,
Eck
 
ecktronic said:
Cheers.
Ill look into the toms.
Could you explain what you mean by saturation of the snare.

Cheers,
Eck
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I sometimes like to run a snare through a send with a distorion plug, or just try inserting an analogue saturation plug on the snare track. I like to use the Magneto plug-in that comes with Cubase SX, but I've heard good things about Tapehead, and a few others.
 
I use magneto on snare sometimes too, it's a cool little plug on some stuff. Wish tapehead was vst, i've heard it's rad, but I only use cubase, don't like protools interface.
 
The guitar to me sounds fine. I think the kick drum almost sounds to clicky when the drummer is hitting it harder. It just seems to almost stand out every once in awhile too much. Did you use 1 mic inside close to the beater head? The kick is much louder than everything at the beginning too. It would probably help if the toms were a bit louder or the kick a bit softer.

The overhead sounds good. Actually the toms almost sound like they are not close miked maybe.
 
johnsuitcase said:
I sometimes like to run a snare through a send with a distorion plug, or just try inserting an analogue saturation plug on the snare track. I like to use the Magneto plug-in that comes with Cubase SX, but I've heard good things about Tapehead, and a few others.
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Cool Ill try out the magneto plug in. Not really used it yet.

Cheers,
Eck
 
monkeymanx said:
The guitar to me sounds fine. I think the kick drum almost sounds to clicky when the drummer is hitting it harder. It just seems to almost stand out every once in awhile too much. Did you use 1 mic inside close to the beater head? The kick is much louder than everything at the beginning too. It would probably help if the toms were a bit louder or the kick a bit softer.

The overhead sounds good. Actually the toms almost sound like they are not close miked maybe.
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Yeah Im gona manually bring the volume of the harder kick hits down and maybe take the high end down a tad. Im waiting to speak with the mastering engineer before I decide on what volume to keep the kick at, as the mastering will no doubt bring the kick down in volume as im wanting around -9dB RMS average.

I used a D112 up close pointing not directly at the beater head, and a beta 52a at the hole facing towards the beater head.

Cheers,
Eck
 
wait aren't you that guy with the soundblaster audigy2 soundcard? The guitar tone sounds like stuff I used to get when using the audigy. Not a lot of depth with "chalky" or "papery" sounding mids, for lack of a better term, I know it doesn't make sense.
 
BRIEFCASEMANX said:
wait aren't you that guy with the soundblaster audigy2 soundcard? The guitar tone sounds like stuff I used to get when using the audigy. Not a lot of depth with "chalky" or "papery" sounding mids, for lack of a better term, I know it doesn't make sense.
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Yeah im the guy with the shity soundcard. :)

I dont think the soundcard sounds that bad, been recording vocals and they sound real clear and not very grainy in the high end even when using a bog standard NT2 for vox.
Need to upgrade, but Ill wait until we make some money from our album release first. :)

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
Yeah im the guy with the shity soundcard. :)

I dont think the soundcard sounds that bad, been recording vocals and they sound real clear and not very grainy in the high end even when using a bog standard NT2 for vox.
Need to upgrade, but Ill wait until we make some money from our album release first. :)

Eck
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I gaurantee you'll change your tune if you get something better.
 
BRIEFCASEMANX said:
I gaurantee you'll change your tune if you get something better.
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Yeah I suppose you could be right. I dont know much about soundcards really, so Ill take your advice.

Cheers,
Eck
 
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