5150+ on Revalver III. My best tone so far.

[Splat88]

One more question, what's the TC Works EQ for if you're using the Sonor EQ for the high and low pass on the guitars?

Mind telling us what's going on in that TC Works EQ for us that don't have it and can't load the preset?

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Well, i'm sorry about the weird EQ i use

The TC EQ is for shaping the tone i like and the Cakewalk one is for the filters. That's because a reason:

When i jam i want a real time processing EQ (TC Electronics) but when i record i want to get rid of the white noise of the Revalver III, so i have to use an extra EQ AFTER the plugin to filter the bursts away from the mix.

I'd use the TC for both shaping my tone and filtering but the problem is the noise bursts can only be eliminated after the plugin.

For the bass... mmm... can't remember, one moment please I'll check it and post.

See ya!

 

[Splat88]

Cool. Thanks for the response. Any chance of seeing a screenshot of the TC Works. My Revalver sounds like poop and yours sounds awesome!

 

[GarethSE]

Daaaaaaaaamn!
That sounds immense man.
Good work

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Ok, bass settings are a bit of a mess (even more than guitars but not as much as the kick ):

I use the HardcoreBass plugin with the Lakland Finger Deep (LFD Hardcore 2)

I routed the bass to a mixer channel and used an EQ and then compressor.
Then i sent that channel to the Master AND to another mixer channel as well.

In the second mixer channel, i processed the aready compressed and clean bass sound with an EQ, Overdrive, a 8x10 impulse i got from somewhere i don't know (probably this forums) another compressor to equal the dinamics of the distorted sound with the clean one, then a post EQ to boost some mids. THEN i sent everyting to the Master bus as well.

A bit messy but I'll show some pics so maybe u can figure it out better.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2835/basssettings1or9.jpg

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9672/basssettings2xg4.jpg

I don't know how i haven't gone mad with all that mess

 

[Erik Monsonis]

And i also have to change the drums and use my S2.0 on them (except for the kick i like it the way it is). Snare sounds a little dull to me.

 

[abyssofdreams]

Guitars sound raunchy! Me like a lot
However, I'd turn down the bass a bit and bring up the guitars...

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I'd turn down the bass a bit and bring up the guitars...

Yup, i've also noticed that, but i was too lazy to open my other DAW, modify the bass volume, export again the "backing track", import it in sonar (i hate sonar midi editor, so i make all the programming in FL) mix it again, hope it sounds good and export. LOL

 

[lordtech]

man, thts a beautiful tone out of the revalver
\m/

 

[spioraid]

Great sounding all around! Good song, good tone, good everything. Tight!

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Thanks for the comments!

UPDATE!: See the first post, now I changed drums for Superior 2.0, raised guitars a bit, lowered the bass guitar and did some changes in mix and the lead tone.

 

[abyssofdreams]

a lot better now! you could add a tad more highend to the whole mix I guess or is soundclick compressing that much?

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I think it's my fault coz i rolled back a bit the high end (i found the cymbals to be a bit harsh)

Thanks for the comment!

Don't you hear something wrong with the snare?

 

[abyssofdreams]

haha, actually I wanted to write something about the snare first...
hmm, I like the character of it, it just sounds somewhat weirdly ambient and mushy, dunno, could be the lack of highend though...
is the snare just Superior or did you add some samples?

 

[Erik Monsonis]

It's the Nir Z Signature snare from the S2.0

I don't know what else to do, i'm just stuck...

 

[abyssofdreams]

What's wrong with it? Do some "mastering" and you're done

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Well, I know shit about mastering

I'm afraid this question has been asked a zillion times but.... Would you recommend me any thread or tutorial or whatever that could illustrate me somehow in the arts of mastering?

Thanks for the replies! If anyone of you have any idea on what to do to the snare it would be more than welcome!

Cya!

Edit: Ok, nvm about the silly question about mastering beggining, i only needed to search (i thought i would be harder to find something useful among trash) and i found lots of useful pages.

 

[Altitudes]

Wow, really good mix! Good tones!

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Thanks!

OMG, Abyssofdreams, you saved my day!
Just followed this tips: http://har-bal.com/mastering_process.php

And here is the result of my first quick mastering:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=865035&content=music

OMG, now the hi-hat sounds as a hi-hat has to sound

Infinite thanks!

 

[abyssofdreams]

What do you thank for, I hardly did anything
Sounds very good!