Death Metal Maybe I don't know kinda ....?

[chadsxe]

What kind of mics are you using? They sound sooo good.

O.k. Deep breath.......

Drums

The kit was a decent set Tama drums, very good Sabian Cymbals, and I believe a Chad Smith signature snare.

Snare Top- SM57 -> Grace Model 101 pre
Snare Bottom- SM57 -> Mackie Board
Kick -> B52 -> Mackie Board (kick was replaced via Drumagog with a sample from DrumKit From Hell 1)
Toms -> Crappy PG52 -> Mackie Board
OH's -> Crappy PG81's -> DMP3

Bass

The bass was a MusicMan StingRay DI'ed into the Grace Model 101. The original bass player was the one who tracked these songs. With out sounding to harsh he kind of sucked. There was no attack or control in his playing at all. We are thinking of dumping these tracks and having the new bass player come in for a marathon session in the next day or two. By the way the Model 101 is a great DI.

Guitar

My guitar was handled like this
Ltd Viper 400 (Emg 81's) into JCM 2000 (DSL 1OO)/1960s cab into SM57 into Grace Model 101 Pre - Everything was Doubled

For the other Guitar player
Everything was the same except the guitar itself. He used a 79 Strat which had a Seymour Duncan Hot-Rail in it. Which I hated to know end but he had to use "his" guitar.

When mixing it was so obvious that we made the wrong choice using the Strat. With both guitars up, at the same volume and soloed, my guitar (Viper) appears to be louder which is do to the EMG 81's cutting through a hundred times better.

Vox

We had built a make shift booth under the stairs at are practice sight. It consisted of a whole bunch of moving blankets on the walls, floor and ceiling. We used a pop filter over a KSM27 into the Grace Model 101. Everything was set flat on the mic going in.

DAW

Hyper Threaded 3.2 P4
2 Gigs of Ram
Sonar
Delta 1010

 

[chadsxe]

I thought you only posted one song.. lightning.. the part I considered to be the chorus was the part that seemed to repeat after the verses.. like a chorus.. the delay thing I thought I was hearing may have been just the hard panned ride cymbal.. sounded strange to me.. first heard @ :24, :29, :34, :40 etc..

Hmmm....

I ended up posting up 2 more songs about 2 days after the orignal post. So with that said I am guessing you mean song number 1 (not lighting, that is just the server that is hosting them, Thanks NL5). The ride cymbal you are hearing is something that has been rectified. When we tracked these we were not happy with how the bell hits were cutting through on the mix. The drummer admitted he was not able to hit the hard and clean while playing the rest of the song. So we over dubbed the hits on a diffrent take. As you may of heard I did not mix them in good, but like I said it since has been fixed.

 

[Adam P]

Cool, I didn't realize this was your band. Where are you guys from? Again, its some really rockin' stuff. I'm going to share it with a couple of my friends if you don't mind. I just listened to the songs again and the last one (with the guitar intro) has a killer breakdown about 15-20 seconds in, or maybe they're choruses? Either way, they're awesome.

I also forgot to mention that your vocalist reminds me of Pat Murphy from Kalibas at the beginning of the song with the Japanese guy intro.

If you're ever interested in checking out some of the metal stuff I've recorded (even though it doesn't hold a candle to the job you did on this) or just want to talk some metal and recording, just drop me a PM on here.

 

[chadsxe]

Cool, I didn't realize this was your band. Where are you guys from? Again, its some really rockin' stuff. I'm going to share it with a couple of my friends if you don't mind. I just listened to the songs again and the last one (with the guitar intro) has a killer breakdown about 15-20 seconds in, or maybe they're choruses? Either way, they're awesome.

I also forgot to mention that your vocalist reminds me of Pat Murphy from Kalibas at the beginning of the song with the Japanese guy intro.

If you're ever interested in checking out some of the metal stuff I've recorded (even though it doesn't hold a candle to the job you did on this) or just want to talk some metal and recording, just drop me a PM on here.

Were all from Chicago.....even though these are not final mixes, by all means feel free to share it with who ever you want.........I am glad your digging it.....It always nice to hear some positive feedback......I will be in touch....