cobra, 5150, and mark III clip

[cobrahead1030]

that's right, another clip from this wanker

like the title says: http://disvisioned.net/clips/cobrahead_3amp_misery.mp3

any/all comments and input are welcome, good or bad

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Ok, here goes....

Intesting music, no question there. I found the rhythm guitars sounding a little too nasal for my tastes.... perhaps crank the amp up louder & get the cabinet more involved? I'm not saying it's a bad tone by any stretch of the imagination, I just think there's room for improvement.

The kick was very "plastic" sounding... what kind of heads/mic were you using?

The toms, however, seemed to be lacking any attack at all. Again, what heads/mics were used?

Don't get me wrong, it's a massive improvement over your earlier drum recordings & I know you've been working hard on them. It shows.

-0z-

 

[cobrahead1030]

i've got all the amps cranked pretty loud...my 5150 post volume is on 4, with the other amp levels set to match; i think the guitars are gonna require a bit of post eq tweaking (they're totally raw here)

we used an audix d6 kick drum mic, the 'plastic' sound i believe comes from my drummer using plastic beaters in addition to kick pads that had metal discs in them for more of a 'clicky' tone...while it sounds good live, i think it was overkill in this situation but he inisted on using them rather than a more conventional type

there's actually a few high frequencies cut to try to get some of that outta there, and no high end boost @ all

tom mics were sennheiser e604's...for heads we used some evans clear/coated hybrid heads; i didn't care much for the sound of them, but we were going thru hell trying to get the normal clear heads tuned properly (we went thru a drum dial and tension watch with no luck) in the end we decided a sub-par tom sound was better than something with more attack that was horridly out of tune

thanks for the honest critique, and altho i feel this is one of my better mixes...i agree there's room for improvement

having proper equipment to work with this time around, in addition to the advice i got from your thread i've learned a lot of things that i'm gonna insist on doing next time we record

 

[JeffTD]

I agree, this is definitely a huge improvement over your last stuff.

My biggest complaint is that on the more technical riffs, your guitar tracks aren't very tight. Work on getting that tight as a witches cleft, and things should be sound better just because of that (on the guitar front).

 

[Mood Bender]

that's pretty slick overall. you come up with some pretty off the wall but cool sounding stuff.

the first guitars have a tunnelness to the tone. it's okay, just an observation

 

[cobrahead1030]

yeah i was concentrating more on sound than on playing...i've already re-tracked most of it, and i assure you the final product won't have the guitar slop that slipped thru here

thanks for checkin it out guys