Empty Fix - The Tide: Alternative metal mixing challenge

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Nice mix. I like how the vocals come through. Cool thing with the drums at the beginning. Track edits were interesting.

If I may ask, which accent do your hear? The OP is from my neck of the woods and down here, we don't have accents.
Oh wow, first off, thanks. I've come a good way since this - learned and just began using bus compression on vocals and compression techniques with drums on my most recent personal track.

Funny, I had to go back and listen, maybe it is not an accent, but in the the spoken parts... I suppose it is more the phrasing and accentuation. It gives me kind of a Nordic vibe. And then you got the nice rolled R in there keeping it interesting :D
 
Hey there Emiel! Dig the song man. Was up early and thought I would throw together a mix.

Cheers! :drunk:
 

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Oh wow, first off, thanks. I've come a good way since this - learned and just began using bus compression on vocals and compression techniques with drums on my most recent personal track.

Funny, I had to go back and listen, maybe it is not an accent, but in the the spoken parts... I suppose it is more the phrasing and accentuation. It gives me kind of a Nordic vibe. And then you got the nice rolled R in there keeping it interesting :D
Folks round here turned me onto parallel compression. Like applying parallel compression on each individual dadgum track, then puttin em in bus compression to glue them together like Peggy's biscuits n gravy.
 
Can't give away the secrets! Lol

Yeah, layered in samples on the snare, kick and toms. Plus parallel compression on all the drums.
What did you use for drum samples? EZ Drummer? Superior? I use EZ Drummer and others depending on what the song is.
 
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Mostly SS Trigger Platinum samples. Also in there as support there is a sample from 'Poor Some Sugar On Me' that I made once for another project. 😂
 
Mostly SS Trigger Platinum samples. Also in there as support there is a sample from 'Poor Some Sugar On Me' that I made once for another project. 😂
I have to try the Steven Slate stuff - the snare you used was great - it had impact and a quality to the tone that really worked.
 
Might have been from the Terry Date sample pack. I can see what I used when I get back to studio.
 
Nope, just stock SS Trigger samples plus the one I lifted from Pour Some Sugar On Me. I also ran snare and toms through 'Silencer'. Its a drum plugin that does an awesome job of isolating individual drums without cymbal bleed. I find it an absolute necessity for real drums now. Especially when layering with a drum sampler.

Anyhoo, here are the individual snare samples I used and one with all samples together.
 

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Nope, just stock SS Trigger samples plus the one I lifted from Pour Some Sugar On Me. I also ran snare and toms through 'Silencer'. Its a drum plugin that does an awesome job of isolating individual drums without cymbal bleed. I find it an absolute necessity for real drums now. Especially when layering with a drum sampler.

Anyhoo, here are the individual snare samples I used and one with all samples together.
Yeah that’s pretty neat - I do a version of the silencer plugin - just with 3 plugins instead of the one. I changed the guitars tone - but it seem like you didn’t do much - did you?
 
Naw, just a slight boost at 1.5k and rolled off at 50hz.
Bass gtr I massaged with 'Element Bass'.
Vocals I used 'Howard Benson Vocals'.
The only verb used is Soundtoys-'Little Plate'.
 
Naw, just a slight boost at 1.5k and rolled off at 50hz.
Bass gtr I massaged with 'Element Bass'.
Vocals I used 'Howard Benson Vocals'.
The only verb used is Soundtoys-'Little Plate'.
Well I did a ton to everything - not that it needed it - but I wanted to - the best change was isolating the drums - I use Logic and its tools to get it done - only problematic ones were the highhat and bass drum 3 - all of the drums I replaced except for the overheads - but Iincluded some of the originals after I isolated them - I looked up Howard Benson Vocals - Handy tool it seems - I essentially do a similar setup but with plugins and tripling and micro delaying the Vocal tracks - which gives the same effect as a Doubler but with more control - Element Bass is an interesting plugin - I use Helix Native which is the same idea - you’ve got a good package - I have Little Plate - but have a cornucopia of reverbs - plates- chambers - convolution and IRs - I used to use the Abbey Road Plates and Chambers -- now I mostly used Logics Reverbs - and the new Logic Quantec which has been fantastic - what DAW are you using?
 
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