Metal song Demo

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Metal song Demo- Help???!!!

Although ive been messing around with it for a while i never really started trying to make recordings sound great, so i've done a quick demo of my band, its missing the screamed vocals but thats probably a good thing as far as most of you are concerned!

Drums are done first time, 2 shure sm58's through a horrible behringer mixer. Hardly ideal i know i will be investing in some better stuff. Guitars and bass direct thorugh a v-amp, vocals(which are giving me most trouble) same gear as the drums.

For anyone who has the time, i'd be interested in having it torn apart, what needs done to the mix, eq, compression, reverb, whatever you think. Ignore the fact that the actual singing is terrible for now, its me and wont be there eventually hopefully.

Go to http://www.myspace.com/thenightmareplan and listen or download it- Its called lovers Syndrome.

Cheers
 
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Metal is not my genre, but it sounds decent. I can't help you with recording the drums, cause I don't know a thing about that, but everything is audiable, and I've heard worse. I like the chorus, it's singalongable, witch is very important to me. Sounds cool.


In return for my highly indepth review I demand you to go and critique my -> black/death metal-core song :D :D :D :D



Cheers!
 
Polska_77 said:
Metal is not my genre, but it sounds decent. I can't help you with recording the drums, cause I don't know a thing about that, but everything is audiable, and I've heard worse. I like the chorus, it's singalongable, witch is very important to me. Sounds cool.


In return for my highly indepth review I demand you to go and critique my -> black/death metal-core song :D :D :D :D



Cheers!
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I think one of my farts could've been more useful than that.


Anyways, from what I heard, your drums are muddy,have bleed and it definately sounds like a behringer mixer. Exactly how did you set up the mics? It sounds like you just put them infront of your kit and hit record. Get some more high mids in there and maybe lower the lows a bit and it might polish up the sound. Later on you should get a couple of preamps so you can get a cleaner signal to the mixer and I also suggest you get a kick drum mic and some overheads so you avoid that bleed. As far as guitars, I think they are decent for direct. How exactly was the set up for it? Was it straight in the pc or into the mixer? Get back to me on that.
 
The guitars? V-amp>stereo channel on mixer>delta 44. Mics are through the pre's in the mixer then the delta 44. Bass drum mic is the next mic im gonna buy. As for placement one is overhead pointing roughly towards the snare and one is slightly inside the kick pointed towards the beater.

Im planning on upgrading the mixer to an M series soundcraft, the pre's in them are the ghost ones and are supposed to be very useful. Oh yeah, the reverb on the kit is from the mixer too.

EDIT: Any advice on the vocals? Im not expecting anything great from 2 dynamics and behringer pre's on the drums, but the vocals are giving me problems...
 
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