Screamo song

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hmm...the band might have not uploaded the second version I sent them yet, then. Either that Or I still didn't turn upthe bass guitar quite loud enough.

You see, I had to turn down the bass track some cause it sucked. And he chose not to come to redo it. Still, you should be able to hear it...

If you can't hear the snare really in the bridge, then thats an old version and the bass is louder on the second version. If you can hear the snare and that is the newest version..............damn. Like I said, my monitors suck at bass management. Whenever I grab the fader for the bass, it's pretty much guesswork.

By the way, I'm just wondering, have any of you found the track after the static?
 
Newbie dude said:
Well, I don't have alot of experience with screamo bands, Metallica is about as metal as I get, but he says he had to scream into his hands while its holding the end of the mic to make the right sound, and you can't hold the condenser or anything like that.
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Right sound to who is the question :eek: The first time I went to a studio I freaked out about my voice on the recording.... Alot of what he is hearing is traveling through his skull and I guess in his case bouncing back off his hands. He's got to come to grips with reality. What he thinks is not what others hear nore should it be. After years of f'ing up I now don't even eq my voice at all in recordings and use as little effects as I can get away with. Took me forever to figure it out though. Going to the studio was one of the best things that ever happend to our live sound. After that I had a clue.

In short watermelon's right;) I did however never try to hold the mic recording. I was pretty used to it anyway from playing and singing at the same time. Pretty hard to hold the mic.


F.S.
 
right, heres what i suggest:

Do u have just a kick drum track? try boosting at about 5khz to make it click a bit and cut at 200hz. If its too awful use it to trigger a sample.

Low cut the guitars quite high and cut some at 200ish hz. the left guitar needs to be louder in relation to the right.
The vocals arent to bad, its not unsual to use a dynamic, maybe try using a delay on them for a bit of interest.

CUT the panic at the disco ending, its been done and sounds way to contrived.

but its not a bad song (or badly recorded ) :D
 
cut the ending? Darn, I thought it was kinda cool.

By the way, I've never listened to panic at the disco,except for parts of that one song they always play on the radio. I got the violin idea from "glycerine" by Bush. I dunno where the static idea came from.
 
Try using a plastic beater head, or 2 :) for the kick and scoop the lo mids so get rid of the boxy, cardboard sound.

Eck
 
Newbie dude said:
The mics go into the preamps in my firebox.

The band really wanted one guitarist's track on the right and one's on the left for this song, so thats How I panned them. I guess it just didn't occur to me to make other tracks for the guitars during parts where they're playing at the same time and pan them differently. I might try that. I dunno, my computer's already popping like crazy cause I have so many tracks and effects on.
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Just don't pan so hard. 50% is damn hard and your at 100%. I'd look at starting at 25% for the effect they want. I muted left and right and there is nothing of the other guitar in left or right. Now in the regular rythem section it can work. It's been done in the right song. One of the best mixed songs of it's time to me is Van Halen, Mean Street. Eddie is all the way to the left and it works. When it's changing back and forth like that with no anchor in the middle I would look at making it not so drastic. Eddie had a steady balance mix to work with.

F.S.
 
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