Another long song I wrote

[exzem]

Hey,

I wrote this song that I thought I would post here. It's a pretty long one too like some other stuff I posted here, hopefully still listenable without loosing interest.

The mix is pretty dense since there are plenty of layers of gtrs and even some strings so I ended up scooping the rhythm gtrs quite a lot. At the end there are 8 guitar tracks playing 5 different things + strings .

Distorted gtrs are tse x30, cleans = soloC. Drums are superior 2 with some samples blended/replaced for kick and snare.

Maybe it's "mastered" a bit too loud.

Anyway what do you think?

stream: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=960121&songID=8417286

dl: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1063820/phobia_new.mp3

 

[AudioPhile777]

Hell yeah... I'm really digging the clean tone... do you happen to have a screen shot of the settings and what impulse are you using, out of curiosity?

 

[El_Gato]

insanely good writing!!! I just was singing to the music

On the production side, I'd only roll off snare reverb and OHs vol. And playing with velocities mainly kick.

Good job!

 

[El_Gato]

ok, you're the pinky's writer! I was just digging your soundclick and I realized. Yeah they sound somehow similar but both great songs, and you got some others too. I wonder what you were thinking to when naming a song Screech lol

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Men you are a lot productive! You do more songs in a month that I make in a year! and always with superb composition and sound quality. The guitars are indeed a bit scooped but fit very well the context.

 

[Puppy dog tail]

Well, the worst thing that happened to me with your songs is...when finish

You create an atmosphere that catchs me buddy, a lot of things to hear and pay attention, really nice, it´s true.

And about the final mix I´m with El Gato, sometimes the kicks are like a submachine gun, a small touch with velocities could be fine, but in fact I like a lot the final mix.

One question, could you share your settings for the clean guitar?

well done dude

 

[exzem]

The clean chain is: Guitar with EMG 89 neck position /w coil split on -> SoloC default settings (when you start it up)-> s-preshigh -> tal dub2-> sir (impulse loader)/w Acoustica M7 Amsterdam hall reverb, 0.0 db dry -14 db wet -> TLs2095-LA compressor. Settings for compressor + delay: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1063820/cleans_phob.JPG.

I think it's more important how and where you play for clean tones though, I always experiment playing with and without pick, angling it differenty, how hard you play, playing with fingers etc. I like the sound where you play very far from the bridge. Changes the tone alot more than changing settings.

El_Gato: Ah, yeah I always seem to have trouble finding a snare sound that I like. Always keep changing but never happy with anything, I'll try some more Yeah I should play around more with the kick sound too, it's only 1 sample as you may have guessed. I don't pay much time coming up with good song names

Nuno Filipe: Hehe, thanks man!

Puppy dog tail: Thanks for liking, I'll spend some more time with the drum sound.

 

[Puppy dog tail]

No mate, thanks to you for sharing your ideas/setups.

I agree, the same riff never sounds similar changing the finger/pick positions.

And of course, is completely different changing the guitar player

Sometimes I think what you could compose if you like death metal:Smokin:

 

[AerialThesis]

It IS mastered too loud. Actually i can't feel any dynamics between the intro and the part where everything is playing. But the mix is great I also like the clean guitars tone.

 

[exzem]

Hehe, I do like some death metal bands, like Gojira or Decapitated, but since I don't do vocals I tend to think death metal songs gets kinda boring without any vocs.

AerialThesis: I was more thinking about the dynamics at faster fills, snare and kick sound etc. The intro thing have nothing with mastering to do, I automated the cleans down because I didn't want that big volume difference, right now there is a difference of around 6 db RMS from the intro to the main song, but I agree the intro could be 2-3 db quieter when you say it.

 

[whatwhat]

Sounds freaking KILLER!!!! Love the tones..

 

[exzem]

Updated the mix (same links), more dynamic intro, better snare.

 

[Scott Horner]

Dude, I want to make sweet, sweet love with your songs and have a bunch of little mini epic exzem song babies to cradle in my ear, haha. Too far? Nah...

Seriously great stuff though.

 

[Puppy dog tail]

Wow Excem you touch me again!!! sorry for the offtopic but I would like to remember Decapitated members, Covan and Witek.

I was talking with them (my poor english sometimes do the job...) when they were playing in Spain, one of the best shows I saw in my life and very nice guys.

Well...I´m going to hear your new mix.

 

[El_Gato]

full enjoy man! the only thing I'd change is kick quantization (a bit less) around min. 6. I found myself la-la-la-ing some of these melodies yesterday lol

 

[Ola Englund]

Fett!!!

 

[digitalmikey]

This song is amazing. Great job man. Just thought I would post that. lol

Btw, what tuning and guitar did you use?

 

[Nauru]

Everyone always says "Amazing song writing!" and "Unbelievable tone!", and I totally agree, but the drum sounds you get are so good too. I mean I can never get SD2 to sound that good, especially your snare towards the end, it's just great.

 

[Josh M.]

 

[exzem]

Thanks for commenting everyone! I think I'm going to end up blending a couple of kicks to get a more varied sound in the future. My guitar is an Ibanez rg321ex with emg 89 + emg 81 pickups, tuning is drop c.

Nauru: Snare is just ludwig black beauty from superior, no external samples on this one. I probably spent most of my time mixing to improve the drum sound, since I think it's the most important contribution to a good overall sound.

Puppy: Truly a shame about the accident :/