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FWIW, sneap usually squishes the low-mids on the guitars with a multiband comp. rather than EQ them out of the mix
FWIW, sneap usually squishes the low-mids on the guitars with a multiband comp. rather than EQ them out of the mix
FWIW, sneap usually squishes the low-mids on the guitars with a multiband comp. rather than EQ them out of the mix
To answer your question one of the biggest metal producer and enginere is a guy named Andy Sneap. He has been setting the standrad for recording and mixing metal for the last decade. He has recorded bands like 36 CRAZYFISTS, ACRIMONY, ARCH ENEMY, ARTILLERY, AS I LAY DYING, BENEDICTION, BIOMECHANICAL, BLAZE, CALIBAN, CATHEDRAL, CHIMAIRA, CONSUMED, CRADLE OF FILTH, DEARLY BEHEADED, DESPISED, DEVILDRIVER, DEW SCENTED, DISGUST, EARTH CRISIS, EARTHTONE 9, ENGLISH DOGS, ENTOMBED, EXODUS, FACE OF ANGER, FOZZY, HECATE ENTHRONED, INTO ETERNITY, IRON MONKEY, JOB FOR A COWBOY, KILL II THIS, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, KREATOR, LIVING SACRIFICE, LOCK UP, MACHINE HEAD, MASTERPLAN, MEGADETH, MINDFEED, NAPALM DEATH, NEVERMORE, OBITUARY, OPETH, PISSING RAZORS, RISE TO ADDICTION, SABBAT, SICK SPEED, SKINLAB, SOULFLY, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, SQUEELER, STAMPIN' GROUND, STUCK MOJO, TESTAMENT, THE MORE I SEE, THORN ELEVEN, TRIVIUM. If you look at the bands this man is invovled with you will see my point.
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Here is a new mix I did.
This one is pretty much final (except for the guitar solo)
It's a lot less "bassy". I think maybe too much...
So check it out and tell me what you think. Do you think it improved over the last one?
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nah dude, sneap has done the couple of opeth albums, although i know that their upcoming album was recorded all in sweden, which would leave me to believe that it wasn't with sneap
There is also no low end and very little high end. The mids are also missing. I'm not sure how you accomplished that.
Then what of the dude from Porcupine Tree, did he just produce it? I know he was involved in the making of a bunch of their stuff.
Your EQ setting will always represent the difference between the sound you have and the sound you want.
First, you have to know the sound you want, then listen to the sound you recorded. What is the difference between the two? That will be your EQ setting.
Without knowing what you have recorded, there is no way to know what EQ settings you need.
Your EQ setting will always represent the difference between the sound you have and the sound you want.
First, you have to know the sound you want, then listen to the sound you recorded. What is the difference between the two? That will be your EQ setting.
Without knowing what you have recorded, there is no way to know what EQ settings you need.
After giving that sentence a lot of thinking, I agree with you... in a way...
You are referring to EQ during recording, where your EQ settings are indeed the difference between the sound you have and the sound you want.
However, having done that, by the stage of mixing you have all tracks with the sound you want, but you still use EQ in mixing...
Why?.... Becouse you use it to MIX instruments with each other, to blend them. Not to make a overwhelming change on the instrument sound, but instead to mix it with other instruments.
When people remove everything from 80 Hz to 3 KHz on the kick, I'm sure they don't do it becouse they love it how it sounds.
It's probably to have it very loud, yet leaving room in the mix for everything else.
Those are the mixing standards I'm talking about.
Those "trickies" to blend a metal band succesfully, and therefore, making a good mix.
You could be correct, although I know Andy has mixed albums that weren't necessarily recorded with him initially.nah dude, sneap has done the couple of opeth albums, although i know that their upcoming album was recorded all in sweden, which would leave me to believe that it wasn't with sneap
Woah! Id like to hear mixes from the folk that are using this technique to produce space for other instruments.When people remove everything from 80 Hz to 3 KHz on the kick, I'm sure they don't do it becouse they love it how it sounds.
It's probably to have it very loud, yet leaving room in the mix for everything else.
the correct course of action is to dip certain ranges.. otherwise known as a "cut", which does NOT mean completely cutting them out.