See The Blue Light...

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Heres a new one from me:

more death metalish stuff.

You'll all probably be glad to hear there won't be any more of this, as the band broke up today (finally, you have no idea how annoyed i was with this group).

Anyways:

Song: See The Blue Light....
Band: Lifeless



It is cheap ass mics, through a cheap ass Behringer, through a Guillemot ISIS into Nuendo.

Guitars: Ibanez SV-420FM through Line 6 FlexIDuo converted to head out 4x12 Peavey. Miced with a 57 clone, and also run direct, signals mixed. Doubled, and panned hard left/right. The slow part in the middle is on a nother track panned straight on. The beginning is the Whammy pedal (the one with wha in it, SP100 or whatever).

Bass: Ibanez Soundgear through a Pandora PX2. Major compression.

Drums: REALLY shitty kit, miced with REALLY shitty mics. But hey, it still sounds like drums.

Vocals: Telex condensor (small diaphragm) through the Behringer and put through a Quadrafuzz in mixing.

Mixed completely inside Nuendo.

Playing I'm pretty happy with except the end part where the guitars are a little off time on that fast riff, and the drums come in and it doesn't "blow up" like it should.

Jake
 
Man I love this shit!

The first thing to catch my atttention was the vocals. The fuzz is perfect.

Then I really like the snare a lot, however it seemed to be pretty inconsistant...sometimes loud and snappy, other times kind of barely there. There's a point at 2:21 when it's absolutely great.

The guitar sounds could have been better....a little too 80's metal. Sounded kind of like sepultura. That's not bad, but a beefier guitar sound would help. The kick drum also had an old feel to it.

All in all it kind of reminds me of Neurosis (on crack). I like it. No weenie shit.

Good stuff! Decent recording!

Slackmaster 2000
 
I was pretty happy with the guitar sound, but it could be better. The kick drum sucks (the actual drum) so it's tough to get it to sound good on tape (disk actually). Especially with my $50 special Superlux kick mic. The snare is a Pearl steel piccolo, with that same Telex condensor I used on the vocals. Thanks for the kind words, but you probably like it more then me. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of music, and my band kept going mroe and mro torwards that, despite my objections. Now we are broken up, and th eonly things you'll be seeing me post for the time being is punk stuff from my other band. I am looking to start a metal-esque jam band. I think that would be tons of fun, and I have some stuff written that would sound incredible if I can find capable musicians to play with. ANyways, thanks again for the kind words.

Jake
 
rgbjewovij

I hear too much "transistor-y" direct in stuff. Adds a fake kind of fuzz to the sound. I'd go with the mic'ed sounds only. A little presense on the entire mix might help. How do you like Nuendo? What version are you using?
Pretty cool song, tad heavy for my tastes... lots of it going on here, you could play shows in Lousville every night.
Peace,
Paul
 
I actually prefer the direct sound mixed in, I tried it only miced, and ended up using mroe direct. Just my taste, and thats all that counts in the end for me, thanks for the idea though. If I had turned the amp more, maybe the mic'ed tracks would have sounded better, but they were a little too "canned" for me (even though thats the exact opposite place I would expect to use that word). I'll try adding more presence later.

I LOVE Nuendo. So much easier to use and more versatile then Logic. I used Platinum 4.2 for almost a year, and never liked it as much as Nuendo after 20 minutes. I use Nuendo 1.0.

It's surround sound capabilites rock too, along with the automation and effects.

Jake
 
I actually prefer the direct sound mixed in, I tried it only miced, and ended up using mroe direct. Just my taste, and thats all that counts in the end for me, thanks for the idea though. If I had turned the amp more, maybe the mic'ed tracks would have sounded better, but they were a little too "canned" for me (even though thats the exact opposite place I would expect to use that word). I'll try adding more presence later.

I LOVE Nuendo. So much easier to use and more versatile then Logic. I used Platinum 4.2 for almost a year, and never liked it as much as Nuendo after 20 minutes. I use Nuendo 1.0.

It's surround sound capabilites rock too, along with the automation and effects.

Jake
 
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