Mastodon Blood and Thunder Cover, Need An Audience! :)

[Scorge]

Hey guys,

Second post here, this time I'm back with a cover of the metal song Blood and Thunder by Mastodon.
I'll be making a video to this of me playing the parts and uploading it to youtube but before I do that I want to make sure that my mix will appeal to an audience.

I'm content with the guitar tones, most of the drum kit, and I'm nearly happy with how the bass guitar fits in. Not too sure if I sure lower the levels, lower the bass, boost the treble... you know.

Anyway, it would be great if anyone could give it a listen and any criticism would be greatly appreciated, here's the link!

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13786721/Music/Blood and Thunder (Zac's Ver Final).mp3

Cheers,

- Zac

 

[kidkage]

The guitar tones nice
I think the snare could sound a little fatter to mesh with the guitar tones better.
it does sound a little out of time at some points

Cheers
//

 

[Scorge]

Yeah mostly during the interlude... oh well
Thanks for the advice

 

[ido1957]

It starts out nice and bright then suddenly becomes oddly compressed. As a result the tones around 4k seem to be low in the verses.
It's not bad it's just a big diff from the start. The bass just follows everything, coating the bottom. I think that's okay as this is mainly focused on guitars and kick. It works okay...I'd be expressing personal preferences on anything I'd change really. Nice tight playing, should go well on YT.

 

[joeym]

Whoa there....I love Mastodon! One of the most underrated metal bands.
This sounds very good, the guitar tone is killer. My only nit is that the drums sound too robotic. You gotta humanize them a bit. What drum programme are you using?
Nice work!

 

[Scorge]

Hey, thanks there Joey.
I know, I was only introduced to them 2 months ago. I was hooked on their work, this song especially

Really! You think? I'm using Ez Drummer - the Drum Kit from Hell expansion pack with the humanize function enabled. I also went through my MIDI notes on the Cubase piano roll and randomized them... That's quite strange actually.