Best Mix I've Ever Done, Emmure Style

[rchoi54]

This song is titled Chatterbox, for my band Gift Giver (www.facebook.com/giftgivermusic) and our upcoming EP: Daddy Issues

Let me know how everything sounds and if you are impressed then I will share the chains

NEWEST: https://www.box.com/s/pxod4ppbn5epukeo11nv (it streams!)
NEWER: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3371179/Gift Giver - Chatterbox V5.mp3
OLDER: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3371179/Gift Giver - Chatterbox V4.mp3
OLDEST: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3371179/Gift Giver - Chatterbox V3.mp3

 

[Chrisclc123]

Sounds awesome dude, im impressed. Would you mind sharing the guitar and vocal chain?

 

[heshian46]

I dig it.
The low end seems nice and even.

 

[Mashreef]

Holy fuck awesome mix man
but its kinda harsh in my speaker's..

 

[jessman24]

Awsome mix please screenshot your chains

 

[Sweetnothing]

Sounds dope!

P.s. Screenshots

 

[right_to_rage]

Yes very nice mix, everything is balanced and glued nicely. +1 for screenshots!

 

[stevebaldwin21]

Mix sounds huge!

Guitar are a little harsh to me though maybe? Great though!

 

[CalumJC]

sounds sick dude. i agree that it sounds a tad harsh in places. any chance of some DI's?

 

[kernelxsanders]

great mix man, not really a fan of the song, nor the stock SSD cymbals (particularly that china), but everything goes pretty well with each other. and yea, the guitars are a little harsh, but that could be due to the overly used harmonics used when tracking.

 

[jessman24]

Screenshots??

 

[Igor Samurovic]

The 1-4 khz range sounds extremely harsh on those guitars, which makes people turn the volume down - not a thing to look up to. Otherwise, balanced.

 

[Joshua Wickman]

Very cool stuff dude. I'm sure you love jamming with Keem!

 

[infectdsniper]

yea im interested in the vocal chain. the guitars are harsh sounding but everything has a nice vibe to it.

 

[Backe]

Sounds like an army of rusty chainsaws battling an incoming horde of garbage cans. Awesome!

 

[GearMan2point0]

The music writing is fantastic IMO.

 

[The StabbinCabin]

The Emmure vocal rants and "fucking" "goddamn" "fucks" lyrics kill the vocals for me, personally. The snare sounds a little muffled at times the longer the song goes on- but the overall mix is way aggressive and song writing is badass.

 

[Top Ground Studios]

this is awesome. love those vocals

 

[rchoi54]

Just did some more work on the mix! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3371179/Gift Giver - Chatterbox V4.mp3

Very cool stuff dude. I'm sure you love jamming with Keem!

Ahh thank you Josh! Keem is the best of course haha


VOCAL CHAIN:

Our vocalist likes to layer so I set up 3 vocal tracks that had their own compressor, set at -35 dB, 0.1 ms attack, 10 ms release.

Bused the 3 tracks to another compressor -> distortion -> EQ -> stock Reverb -> GlaceVerb.

The second compressor was used to make sure the layered vocals didn't overpower the mix.
Distortion was used extremely lightly just to give some aggressive high end.
EQ was to cut out low end below 80 Hz, and a 3 dB boost around the 5 kHz area with Q set at 1.3.
stock reverb

stock Reverb shot:

GlaceVerb shot:

GUITAR CHAIN:
old version used the B3 version of Onqel's lovely TSE X50. new version uses the 1.0 version of the X50.
judging by the responses regarding the old one's harsher guitar tones, i'll just post the chains of the new version.

Schecter Hellraiser with 60 guage strings -> TSE808 2.0 -> TSEX50 1.0 -> LeCab 2 -> Convolution Reverb -> Para EQ


TSE 808: Note that input and output are maxed out to 2.0

TSEX50 FRONT SIDE:

TSEX50 BACK SIDE:

LeCab2: used God's Cab IRs along with s-preshigh

Convol Reverb: used to let the guitars breathe a bit from running through 3 different IRs

Para EQ: just minor adjustments to fit the mix

 

[Clark Kent]

Sounds pretty good man! I think the vocal reverbs are too much and also vocals are too loud maybe. Can't hear the bass low end either. But the mix is very good already... great vocalist(s)!