New Metal Track Mix - Please help to make it sound heavy...

[stivens1991]

That sounds nasty, and not in a good way. I'm hearing a lot of clipping. The guitar tone is terrible. You're on a wild goose chase, trying to get the track to sound "big" and "heavy" by turning up the guitars. People have given you good advice but you're not hearing it.

It's not that I'm not hearing this advices, but sometimes just not sure how to use them. As I said - I'm starting with music production, still not sure how compressor works, in what freq's the kick, or bass should be. I'm experimenting, and trying to bring all your advices into life


More or less, many thanks for all your posts again. I've worked on the track and this is my new result, I hope that now I'm even closer of making it sound good:



https://soundcloud.com/s_t_i/sti-new-song-2015/s-ZU1yM

 

[Robus]

What might help is to ditch all the plugins--turn them all off. I guess the amp sim has to stay, but ditch the rest. Then see what you can do just by setting level and panning of each instrument. Once you are as close as you can get, then introduce EQ and compression to solve any problems that remain.

Right now there's an overwhelming lack of low end here. That causes your track to sound small, no matter what you are doing to the guitars. The guitars crazy scooped, like they are coming through a transistor radio.

 

[FoulPhil]

It sounds like most of the metal shit on youtube videos lol. You know the guys showing off their brootal guitar tones? It's got that sound if that's what you're going for. You just have to get use to people who don't like metal telling you it sounds bad LOL. The only thing you can really do is try to get it to sound like your favorite album and then be happy with your accomplishment.

 

[ThoriumEx]

It's not that I'm not hearing this advices, but sometimes just not sure how to use them. As I said - I'm starting with music production, still not sure how compressor works, in what freq's the kick, or bass should be. I'm experimenting, and trying to bring all your advices into life


More or less, many thanks for all your posts again. I've worked on the track and this is my new result, I hope that now I'm even closer of making it sound good:



https://soundcloud.com/s_t_i/sti-new-song-2015/s-ZU1yM

For a dude who's not sure how a compressor work you did a great job after we told you to compress the drums more! Seriously!
At this point of the mix I cant say anything more than EQing the guitars with more low end (not too low though...) and maybe a bit more volume.
And maybe do the classic metal trick of putting some distortion on the bass guitar to give it some more high frequencies content to cut through the mix and make it more "metal" and heavy.
Like said above me, the right thing to do at this point is to take one of your favorites songs/albums that you would like your song to sound similar to, and start referencing, mostly eq and balance.