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[mattr]

I recorded this quickly the other day with my friend's band. Its still very rough with quite a few little timing issues. Any comments on how I could improve it would be great

Things I'm already don't like..

• The snare - it was very ringy and I've tried to clean it up, but it now sounds quite rough and harsh.
• The kick is quite thumpy - I've tried to tighten it up and EQ it, but I'm still not happy with it enough to bring it forward in the mix
• Guitars seem to mush to much. I've cut the low mids in the lead guitar and the high mids in the rhythm guitar, and various other things to try and give them their own bit of "space". The rhythm guitar is double mic'd and double tracked (4 tracks in total) and panned hard L/R, whereas the lead guitar is only double mic'd and panned just off-centre.
• The lead vocals were recorded a bit hot and aren't at a nice consistent level. I've had to heavily compress it to get it ok, but it now sounds really naff; maybe I should rerecord?
• Its all just a bit muddy. Not everything sits quite right.

Warning - scream vocals and some swearing

Any suggestions how I could do a bit of 'fixing' and tweaking would be great. This was my first proper studio recording by the way (I've only ever done live ones before)

Thanks
Matt

 

[mattr]

Anyone got any ideas? Its mainly the guitar tracks which are being difficult - there seems to be a fine line between them being inaudible and overpowered by the drums, and too high that everything else is lost under them.

 

[Marcadiablo]

This is too damn busy. Turn down the guitars and try to give them some meat. The snare is buried under everything else. The kick should be a little more "clicky". The "clean" vox could use compression and a some kind of effect. Is too dry now. I don't know, but everything sounds on top of each other and mushy. Work some more on it.

 

[mattr]

Updated version. Any comments on this? The last chorus has gone a bit haywire because I had the vocals too loud and so hitting the main mix limiter hard, but I'll sort that in a sec.

 

[Supercreep]

I like the intro....

Drummer is having some fairly serious issues.

Cool guitar sounds throughout.

 

[rayc]

GREAT intro but it doesn't live up to it.
The guitars are fizzy and too loud. The solo git sounds OK though!
I'd stick with the singing voice & leave the death growl aside.
Give the drummer another shot at recording this after some serious rehearsal.
unless you want to be a slave to the genre don't add more click to the bass drum just do some EQ'ing around the bottom end in general.