Thanks. But, the track was pretty much spot on as is. Sounded great.
I used the unprocessed snare and kick tracks.
For the snare, I compressed it pretty hard with RComp (-35 threshold, 26ms attack, 25 ms release, 5:1 ratio, makeup gain to taste). After that, I EQ'd out the stuff in the snare I didn't like (mainly cuts at 350, 460 and 975 all with tight Q's). I further scooped the mids a bit centered around 500Hz and added a 4dB shelf EQ at 1400Hz and then LPF at 9.8kHz.
For the kick, I compressed it a bit as well (-20dB thresh, 16ms attack, 40ms release, 2.5:1 ratio, makeup gain to taste). I then added 1.5dB at 62Hz with a gentle Q and a wide scoop centered around 430Hz.
I parallel compressed all the drum tracks (cutting the highs with a shelf EQ since the cymbals were on the tom group as well). I ended up using another shelf EQ to tame the cymbals on the tom/cymbal track itself, too, since the parallel compression brought them out a bit even with the cut. This was the best compromise without dulling the cymbals.
I compressed the bass a little bit more, but it was compressed already, hehe. It seemed to bring out the growl I like a bit more. I added a bit of a mid boost around 600Hz as well (around 1.5 dB with a wide bell shaped Q). I duped the bass track and applied a HPF around 200Hz and used the good ol' Nuendo Quadrafuzz on the HPF track to dirty up the mids highs some more and give it even more growl. In the mix, the HPF/Quadrafuzz track is about 4 dB lower in the mix than the regular bass track.
Mastering chain was pretty simple and quick:
1.Tessla SE tape saturation plug
2. Out to hardware TC Finalizer (for MB comp and softclip only)
3. back into DAW for additional Clipping plugs (x2)
4. L2
My least favorite aspect of the mix is that the snare is too loud for this type of music, IMO. Listening back, I wish I didn't have it so loud. I did this in about an hour total waiting on the Friday night pizza to get here (hehe), so I didn't reference the mix too much.
