It's been a while since I've worked with a band due to my departure from the studio I was at a few months back. Since then I've mostly been working on my own material which is nothing heavy at all (blues-rock). I was contacted by a band I worked with at the studio to do a three-song session for a demo release locally.
Here's one of the tracks. They sent me the MIDI from their TabIt rendition of their song. I ported the MIDI to EZDrummer dfh, then bounced all the tracks out seperately. The kick and snare ended up being replaced (100% kick, 70% snare - had to keep the ghost notes from the dfh snare), using BlackNeonBob's hugekik sample and all 4 of the caliban snare samples. Now, even though I have an XSr, a Dual Rectifier, and currently a FireBall on loan all sitting here, the guitarist absolutely insisted on using the PODxt. It's beyond me. Also, even though right now I have quite a few guitars on "loan" at my disposal, including my own EC-1000 with dual 81's, HellRaiser C1, and an H-1000 with SD's, the guitarist insisted on using his Ibanez AX $150 guitar.
Moving on to the notes...PODxt models were BigBottom on the left, Criminal on the right, two tracks each. I would have mixed it up, having one of each on either side, but after we were finished tracking guitars I found out he played different things on either side...bummer. Bass is programmed and plugged into Cubase's VB-1 vsti. Again they insisted on using it, instead of the Ibanez Prestige 5-string or the Warwick 4-string I have here at the mo'. Basically these guys were fucking stuffed (UK'ers will understand that one
). Vocals done with an NT-2a into a MOTU 8Pre.
Had quite a bit of trouble with the guitars, they were extremely fizzy and way too bright, basically had to low-pass the shit out of them (around 5kHz if I remember correctly), didn't use a hi-pass at all since it really thinned them out beyond recognition, and instead used a C4 around 200-270Hz to control the mud as much as I could. I feel like this is a pretty solid mix, but my ears are tired so...I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts/comments. The mix won't be changed after this at all, it's already been finished and they've started their cd dup'ing with a firm in town, so it's too late for updates. However, still would love to hear comments
~e.a
Here's one of the tracks. They sent me the MIDI from their TabIt rendition of their song. I ported the MIDI to EZDrummer dfh, then bounced all the tracks out seperately. The kick and snare ended up being replaced (100% kick, 70% snare - had to keep the ghost notes from the dfh snare), using BlackNeonBob's hugekik sample and all 4 of the caliban snare samples. Now, even though I have an XSr, a Dual Rectifier, and currently a FireBall on loan all sitting here, the guitarist absolutely insisted on using the PODxt. It's beyond me. Also, even though right now I have quite a few guitars on "loan" at my disposal, including my own EC-1000 with dual 81's, HellRaiser C1, and an H-1000 with SD's, the guitarist insisted on using his Ibanez AX $150 guitar.
Moving on to the notes...PODxt models were BigBottom on the left, Criminal on the right, two tracks each. I would have mixed it up, having one of each on either side, but after we were finished tracking guitars I found out he played different things on either side...bummer. Bass is programmed and plugged into Cubase's VB-1 vsti. Again they insisted on using it, instead of the Ibanez Prestige 5-string or the Warwick 4-string I have here at the mo'. Basically these guys were fucking stuffed (UK'ers will understand that one
). Vocals done with an NT-2a into a MOTU 8Pre. Had quite a bit of trouble with the guitars, they were extremely fizzy and way too bright, basically had to low-pass the shit out of them (around 5kHz if I remember correctly), didn't use a hi-pass at all since it really thinned them out beyond recognition, and instead used a C4 around 200-270Hz to control the mud as much as I could. I feel like this is a pretty solid mix, but my ears are tired so...I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts/comments. The mix won't be changed after this at all, it's already been finished and they've started their cd dup'ing with a firm in town, so it's too late for updates. However, still would love to hear comments
~e.a
