Still Thrashin'

[DankStar]

A work in progress, but gettin' close. Still need a buddy to do his backing vox for the chorus...

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=7382153&q=hi

 

[daemon barbeque]

Re: Still Thrashin'

Zuahauhauhua. Man I love how you sing!!!
So Annihilator ,so cool!
I thinik the tone lacks some midds and highs ,but not much. I like the first break alot. The drumming is on-spot. The solo is cool and fluid! but the Lead guitar is a hair too quiet. I would make the lead on both sides ,with some serious panning. the bridge after the first solo is very cool and has the nice Flotsam and Jetsam vibe! Your voice needs some loudness push too!

Great song ,and a keeper. Would like to hear the final version!

 

[DankStar]

Re: Still Thrashin'

thanks for all the tips dbbq! I appreciate the comments and help mixing.

I've got a few stereo enhancer plugs I've never used, I'll check em out.

I rolled off the high end of the gits around 11K - I have some colin richardson eq tips laying around I'll try and dig up to bump up the presence of the rhythms.

drums are beta monkey, but I had to use drumagog (the free demo, hehe) to add in a second bass drum cause the premixed one was way too low and it's set in the loop. my first "drum replacement" trial. fun stuff.

flots til death!

 

[C-Martin]

Re: Still Thrashin'

Nice! Overall sounds pretty **** cool :headbang: altho the voice definetly needs some loudness, and the guitars seem pretty good but like said daemon might want to mess with the eq a bit in the mids and i would go on too crazy on the highs as they seem fine imo. The solos where pretty cool but they do need just a little more kick in volume so they punch you in the face you when they kick in, especialy the second one.. if you can you might want to pass the whole tracks into a multi band compressor if you have one in your DAW, with a little tweak it would make the whole thing sound a bit bigger, just dont over do it.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Still Thrashin'

Nice! Overall sounds pretty **** cool :headbang: altho the voice definetly needs some loudness, and the guitars seem pretty good but like said daemon might want to mess with the eq a bit in the mids and i would go on too crazy on the highs as they seem fine imo. The solos where pretty cool but they do need just a little more kick in volume so they punch you in the face you when they kick in, especialy the second one.. if you can you might want to pass the whole tracks into a multi band compressor if you have one in your DAW, with a little tweak it would make the whole thing sound a bit bigger, just dont over do it.

thanks! I'll try a multiband on the master bus again (it was really burying the original bass drum, but with the new one added, it should be OK to use now). for some reason I tend to mix solos too low until people say something about it, so thanks for saying it.

 

[Iron Horse]

Re: Still Thrashin'

Zuahauhauhua. Man I love how you sing!!!
So Annihilator ,so cool!
I thinik the tone lacks some midds and highs ,but not much. I like the first break alot. The drumming is on-spot. The solo is cool and fluid! but the Lead guitar is a hair too quiet. I would make the lead on both sides ,with some serious panning. the bridge after the first solo is very cool and has the nice Flotsam and Jetsam vibe! Your voice needs some loudness push too!

Great song ,and a keeper. Would like to hear the final version!

+1 on the whole post. Great lead lines, BTW.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Still Thrashin'

heh Ive listened to alot of circle jerks and Guttermouth punk music - brings me back. pretty cool. I agree with above comments. For quick fixes that I havent commented on yet, I also think your bass drum should be changed up - add a low end shelf and boost the low frequencies - at about from 10-100Hz (experiment to find the peak so it sits right with your mix), avoid the one dimensional bass drum sound sometimes tough to do with the way the mix sits and whatnot.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Still Thrashin'

thanks iron horse and everdrone!

I bumped up rhythm freq around 1,200K. Had to bring down the second bass drum a bit, it was killing the mix here and there. I know it's low now, but it's a fair trade off I think. Brought up the main vox a bit (left the chorus, since a guy will be adding his voice soon) and solos. Stereo effect on solos didn't work out well. Not too worried about the overall compression/loudness - this is one I'll need to try and "master" after the mix is done.

I think I've squeezed all I can out of it without killing it so far. At some point, I realized there's a limitation to working with so-so recorded tracks. But I'm down with demo quality so that's OK. Gotta keep it real.

I'll play with the bass drum idear everdrone, but it seems whatever I touch now throws off 10 other things. This is a weird one - no matter how much I compress on tracks or the master bus, I'm still getting weird spikes here and there; if I try to hard limit, it pumps in a bad way to my ears. at some point I just got to call it.

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=7385116&q=hi
ignore the opening pop (might want to turn your player down at first just in case). that'll disappear in the master.

 

[everdrone]

Re: Still Thrashin'

sounds better; prolly the right attitude dem there for a demo, I love listening to my own music but when the mixing becomes a travesty and slog then I just go to the next project...

 

[Iron Horse]

Re: Still Thrashin'

Yeah, sounds better now.

 

[daemon barbeque]

Re: Still Thrashin'

somehow the verse is louder than the chorus vocals.
I think the trick would be panning different. It sounds definetly better tho!

 

[DankStar]

Re: Still Thrashin'

thanks again for the help guys!

daemon: good ears - you're right! I kept the chorus low for now cause there's a dude on the sneap forum that's (hopefully) going to hook me up with some sick backing vocals to the chorus (& outro vox). he's got a great harsh voice, I'm anxious to see what he does. I figure his will be the main voice for the chorus (or at least as loud as mine) since his voice is better.