metal mix help for pay pal money

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Hi guys I'm writting songs with only virtual instruments like virtual Guitar, drums etc. My equipement:
Virtual guitar: Prominy V-metal
Virtual bass guitar: Prominy Sr5 Rock Bass
Drums: Steven Slate Drums 3.5, Suprerior Drummer 2 + Metal Foundry
Im working with this about year and I have big problems to get a good glue sound together.
I will pay someone who knows about mixing and mastering and who give me instructions about eqs, compressors, amplifiers etc that I need to use.
I want to get sound like this:



Its prossible cuse this guy is only playing with virtual instruments but its not so easy to get this kind of sound to me. I have Waves complete 7 plugins pack and others important and big plugins I just nned to instruction how to use them. I can send recorderd clean guitar files, drums parts etc.
 
I guess we're both in the same boat! I'm no pro (far from it in fact, only been doing it for a few months so more of a noob), but I can say what worked for me:
Parallel compression is great for drums when you want certain sounds to come through the other instruments (such as the snare and kick).
Each instrument should have it's own main EQ 'space'. Bass should take the low end, guitar should take mid-high and drums should accent each area.
As for amps, I have no idea what this guy used but Marshals (mainly the JCM800) are usually the more common within the metal genre. I use the one in Line 6 POD Farm 2.5.
Make sure that your tracks don't clip before you move on.
As for mastering, I use a stock REAPER curve EQ (standard rock v curve), followed by Voxengo Elephant (essentially a mastering compressor), which gets my levels to a good average and prevents clipping, and then just top it off with a slight master reverb to give the mix some common space.
Here's my most recent composition:

I used Superior Drummer 2 (SL-AVATAR), Prominy SR5 Rock Bass and Pod Farm 2.5 for effects. The guitar is played through a Line 6 interface.
Tell me what you think of my mix and then share some of your stuff.
 
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Miravsky said:
Hi guys I'm writting songs with only virtual instruments like virtual Guitar, drums etc. My equipement:
Virtual guitar: Prominy V-metal
Virtual bass guitar: Prominy Sr5 Rock Bass
Drums: Steven Slate Drums 3.5, Suprerior Drummer 2 + Metal Foundry
Im working with this about year and I have big problems to get a good glue sound together.
I will pay someone who knows about mixing and mastering and who give me instructions about eqs, compressors, amplifiers etc that I need to use.
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Maybe you can get someone to virtually mix and master.....
 
Fwiw, I do exactly what you're asking for and for the exact reason you would need someone like me (see my signature). I don't work strictly with metal, but have produced some metal tracks.

I won't club you too hard for using pirated stuff, but at some point you need to buy the tools you like. Without the community paying for them, these programmers won't be able to continue their (great) work in providing refined/newer plugins.
 
Miravsky said:
Hi guys I'm writting songs with only virtual instruments like virtual Guitar, drums etc. My equipement:
Virtual guitar: Prominy V-metal
Virtual bass guitar: Prominy Sr5 Rock Bass
Drums: Steven Slate Drums 3.5, Suprerior Drummer 2 + Metal Foundry
Im working with this about year and I have big problems to get a good glue sound together.
I will pay someone who knows about mixing and mastering and who give me instructions about eqs, compressors, amplifiers etc that I need to use.
I want to get sound like this:



Its prossible cuse this guy is only playing with virtual instruments but its not so easy to get this kind of sound to me. I have Waves complete 7 plugins pack and others important and big plugins I just nned to instruction how to use them. I can send recorderd clean guitar files, drums parts etc.
Click to expand...

**Oops, editing my post because I missed the part where this is an example of what you want to sound like, not what you actually sound like...

Can you post something you created?
 
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Check my work on my Soundcloud (although it's with real instruments and no triggers), and if you like PM me, and we talk. I'm very into modern metal and I've recorded bands with "similar" style on my not-yet finished studio, like the sound on my signature.
 
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