practice recording metal

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heres a practice recording i made with my boss br1600.
couple crap mics used on guitar/bass cabs and vocals, instead of mic'in up my kit, i just recorded with my roland td10 electronic drum kit.

this was made with the intentions of a practice tool for all the guys in the band to listen and practice with at home.

i know its far from perfect... inputs have some peaks and musically its far from perfect.

but give it a listen and tear me apart

"years of struggle"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1006705&content=music
 
There's no space for the string section!!

Wow. Whole new levels of evil. :^)

It's real busy. Full of stuff...most of the time. The intensity never lets up. Not a major fan of DM, but there have been some things that I've heard that move me. What happens in this one, for me, is that the moments of strong unison, using space to catch breath, don't happen very much. The parts sound like static all together...and rarely flow together to form a strong wave of crushitude.

I think you could edit out a large amount of gratuitous virtuosity, and meld some of the more major themes together to give the work some power...direction. It happens in a couple places.

I reckon it might be one of those 'less-is-more' things.

But if you want to elicit an emotion akin to being pushed out of a helicopter at 5,000 feet....into a grid of tensly-strung piano wire the last couple hundred ...with a meat grinder at the bottom...you did it!

I'm old...so mebbe I just don't get it. But it's somethin' awright!
 
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good stuff mate...dont know the genre but sounds like you've got it going on, some of the guys in here do know a bit more about it so maybe they'll swing by

welcome to the site
 
I'm calling bullshit on that being a human drummer.


This kind of music is hard to take seriously because it's so comical. It's all over the top everything all the time. The guitars' sound and performaces are great. Good vocals too. The rest sounds like ass.
 
Greg_L said:
I'm calling bullshit on that being a human drummer.


This kind of music is hard to take seriously because it's so comical. It's all over the top everything all the time. The guitars' sound and performaces are great. Good vocals too. The rest sounds like ass.
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The only thing i can take seriosuly about this stuff is the impeccable musicanship most death/black metal bands ooze. Aside from that Bullet Belts severed pigs heads and corpse paint are covered in aids and cancer and i scoff alot. ALOT.

Humans drummers can play like this gergory.... Please Reference this record 'Grand Declaration of War' by Seminal BlackMetal band Mayhem. "Hellhammer" is a robot. for real. I have no idea how he does it but ive heard and seen live material and he never messes up. Its fucked. Also one of my favorite Mayhem records.

Onwards to the mix. I wouldn't touch the guitars overall sound or tones at all. They sound dope. levels maybe. At 0:36 that lead squeally guitar part has to come down. I love that sound but its just to fucking loud there. Mix it till you you can hear it then throw it back 1/4 to half a db, throw a bit of verb or delay on it. Stellar.

alot of peaking and clipping but for the purposes you stated this would get an a+.

It would need alot of work to be demo worthy.

It may be my speakers but i hear very little actual bass?
 
I know people can play like that. Very few people.

I'm still calling bullshit on this one.

And, just so no one gets a sandy pussy over it, it doesn't matter. I just don't want to be lied to. If I'm somehow proven wrong in this instance, I'll apologize.
 
heres a practice recording i made with my boss br1600.
couple crap mics used on guitar/bass cabs and vocals, instead of mic'in up my kit, i just recorded with my roland td10 electronic drum kit.
 
jeffmaher said:
heres a practice recording i made with my boss br1600.
couple crap mics used on guitar/bass cabs and vocals, instead of mic'in up my kit, i just recorded with my roland td10 electronic drum kit.
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Yeah, and?
 
jeffmaher said:
heres a practice recording i made with my boss br1600.
couple crap mics used on guitar/bass cabs and vocals, instead of mic'in up my kit, i just recorded with my roland td10 electronic drum kit.
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yeah thats not a drum machine..I think thats what Gregs pointing out..he thinks it wasnt played by a human but Ive got $10 on the n00b ;)
 
See, I like this kind of thing...lot of good Necrophagist/Faceless moments in there. Thumbs up from me...that was pretty fucking relentless.
 
Oh...I get it...he played it on pads. Sounds quantized...or the OP is amazing.
 
all the feedback here is appreciated. i still have a lot to learn about cab recording techniques but i am faily happy with the overall tone. and the bass needs work no doubt.
my biggest problem is getting buzz out of the mix.
im not worried about sandy pussies lol
 
Purge said:
See, I like this kind of thing...lot of good Necrophagist/Faceless moments in there. Thumbs up from me...that was pretty fucking relentless.
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thanks dude. the faceless is definately one of our biggest influences.
 
jeffmaher said:
He told you it was an E-drummer. How did he lie to you? Am I missing something?
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Maybe I am. I read that as he played it on a TD10 and recorded it. A TD10 is an E-kit. You have to play it like regular drums.

Unless I missed something.
 
Yeah...I revised my post...realized what was up...and like I said, sounds quantized.

So was is e-scootched??
 
And for the record, I don't care that it's sampled, quantized, aligned, and grid perfect. I just don't wanna be lied to. ;)
 
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