Black Dahlia-ish

[nevchrist]

this is all sex panthers

 

[eternally_gutted]

Kick and snare were completely replaced using a combination of Slate Trigger samples and LSD samples. I think I had 4-5 kicks blended and 2-3 snares. Toms are au natural and I used Audix D2's on the racks, the D4 on the high floor and a 421 on the low floor tom. I close mic'd the crashes, in groups of 2, using Rode nt5's, mic'd the hihats using a Heil PR-40, and mic'd the ride using a 57. I didn't use a room mic simply because we tracked in my living room and didn't sound great. That and I really didn't think I would use it considering how much shit is going on in the music. The snare, toms, and OH's were all sent to the same reverb bus and I just used Roomworks in Cubase. I EQ'd each track to remove 30Hz and below, scooped some of the woofy lo-mids and raised the high end to help it cut through better. I think I used Stillwell Audio compressors on each drum track with only a few dB of GR. For the OH's I filtered out up to about 500Hz. Oh, and on the hihat and ride track I inserted a gate to help get ride of any unnecessary room tone.

great info. thanks a lot. i like the mix and that band is good too. 4-5 kicks?haha. what did you use?

 

[Revson]

Thank ye, and I'm happy to share. The main kick sound was the LSD metal click sample and then blended lower was his big rock kick I think. I also used a couple slate samples blended kinda low too. Again I don't have my session in front of me so I can't recal the exact samples. I also used a pretty drastic EQ, high shelf set around 7kHz boosted pretty high, around 80Hz boosted a couple dB, filter 50Hz out and a huge scoop in the midrange. Then compress the hell out of it.

 

[Revson]

Updated the links in the first post. I got tired of fighting with the real toms so I said fuck it and replaced them. Tell me what sucks.

 

[rchoi54]

great mix as a whole.
guitars sound like they have too much contour and high-mids compared to Dahlia's scooped tone.

 

[zirkonflex]

Nice drums, but the guitars are kinda contoured and sound wierdly distant, no where near to "in your face", they just don't strike.
The rest is nice though.

 

[Revson]

I think that's because the guitars were overgained a bit (and the mids were cranked, never let the band set up their own amp) while tracking and I had to scoop out some upper midrange to make room for the snare/toms. As long as there's nothing hugely wrong I think I can live with turning this over to them. Thanks for listening everyone.