Recent content by OliverShillito

Hey, I bought these samples a while ago, has anyone here had any problems with Kontakt 4 missing hits? It only seems to affect the snare, I also own the Slate kits and some Sturgis cymbals and none of them seem to do it, just the DB snare...and its such a nice snare! Anyone got a work around...

Thanks for the comments guys, it's given me more confidence that not all is lost. I sometimes struggle with bass, as it never seems to translate well into my car system (has a sub). Pro recordings have a tight bottom end where as mine always seems a little loose sounding. Hence why it was...

Cool man, I have a ton of decent EQ plugins, I'll try that, see if it cleans things up a little. Thanks for the replies guys!

Hey man, I usually record the DI guitars into a Focusrite Platinum Trakmaster, then Pod Farm EX, some EQ and panned hard left hard right, generally speaking I don't quad track. Sometimes I also add a verb in a aux channel and pan that hard as well. Where do you think I am going wrong...

Thats good to know man, its clearly an issue on my end then! Back to the drawing board I think =P

Thanks for the reply, I know there is much learning to be done yet, and I can hear my mixes getting better over time, I just wondered if this issue was something out of my control or something I am doing/not doing. Thanks anyway man =]

Hey guys, I was hoping someone could offer some insight, whenever I track a rough song mainly using SSD for drums and Pod farm, my mixes never seem to sound as clear as other peoples I have heard, with or without EQ. I just cant seem to get past that home demo sound, I use a Digidesign...

Hey man, been doing a little bit more work on my mix, trying to make the vocals a bit more present in the mix, lowered the snare a little, thickened up the guitars slightly. PS. for anyone that is interested, if you solo the vocals in your session and listen at around 2.06 there is a long...

Rough Mix Here it is, I found this track a particular challenge, lots of layers but it was a fun track to do! I hope I've done it justice :P On the demo on your facebook page there was a cello or similar instrument under the acoustic guitars at the beginning? I couldn't find it in the stems...

Awesome song writing man, I will give this mix a try, downloading the stems as we speak :D good work!

Thanks for the heads up wolf :)

Thanks for the feedback man! :rock:

Hey there Mulder, Thanks a lot for the reply, Music Engineering for me is all part and parcel of production as a whole, sometimes I find myself helping clients out with the writing as well, not sure whether or not I should but if thats what they ask of me and they like my ideas then so be it I...

Rough Mix Here you go man, I just whipped together a rough mix (30 mins), see what you think of that, tried to get it sounding as clear and punchy as possible. Hope you like it!

If you're looking for a really "metal" kick, then overused as it may be but Kick 10 in the Slate collection with some EQ and Comp is brutal (probably why everyone uses it) other than that, Kick 14 has a nice click and bottom end to it. Also, I find that using a little bit of G-Clip on the slate...