ControlState is looking for someone to mix cd

[Pete The Elite]

I'd love to try this. But without sounding like a complete n00b so to speak. I have never uesd midis in a project before... what to do?

I was in your shoes a near year ago, basically you need to get a good drum midi program, like many i use ezdrummer.

Have a read on these articles, shud get you going

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul06/articles/toontrack.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_sequencer

 

[devouredremains]

I'd love to try this. But without sounding like a complete n00b so to speak. I have never uesd midis in a project before... what to do?

Here's a free drum vsti to get you started.

http://www.bluenoise.no/mydrumset.html

The samples in it are raw (a good thing for many people) so you will need to process them after you have routed them to seperate channels in your daw.

After your comfortable with that you could look into drum replacement plugins to utilize the wealth of samples donated by many people of this community.

 

[Metaltastic]

This should help!

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/403588-drum-samples-replacement-triggers-faq.html

 

[ADRSean]

Thank you guys so much. I do own EZDrummer and Drumkit From Hell plugin for it. I love that program. I've never actually uploaded a midi into it to play. For as "experianced" i am I still realize how dumb mistakes make you look ignorant. Ha. well Im going to give this song a try now.

 

[Vis]

Hey guys! First of all, thanks a lot for all the mixes. We appriciate it very much that you put your time and energy in this. We listened to all the mixes with the band members. Some of them we like very much, some of them we like less. I really like some ideas of effects. Now there comes a time were we have to decide. At this moment, these are the two mixes we like the best:
- FET
- Mintcheerios

We think this sound fits the most with our music.

 

[felipe-x]

i will post my mix this weekend reamped with my triple x!

 

[HandsOfDespair]

Here is my mix, hope you'll like it, I surely had lot of fun to mix it, great song.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zidymxgf2tz

I add a ''radio'' effect at the break on the vocals, thought it sounded cool and added more colors.

 

[MetalSound]

Just did some quick changes and updated the link. I have more time in two weeks when I´m through with my current production.
Anyway, here it is:
http://www.metalsound.de/ControlState_MetalSound.mp3

 

[~BURNY~]

How about an overcompressed turd?
http://www.speedyshare.com/316556892.html

 

[MetalJonesy]

How about an overcompressed turd?
http://www.speedyshare.com/316556892.html

have you redone the drums and put toms in? sounds killer!

 

[MetalJonesy]

just reamped my guitars this avvo, gnna work on it over the course of the next week or so!

 

[MetalJonesy]

righty, i reamped the guitars about an hour ago

so this is a very quick mix, monitor mix if you like

Reamped with my krank!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/369408/ControlState 2nd mix.mp3

 

[Sloan]

I haven't been able to work on mixing all that much, but here's a quick little CLIP:
http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/52/impulse_controlstate_test01.mp3

It's all in-the-box MAGIC or whatever. I was surprised to get such usable tones from all this fake shit I piled on those DI's. Let me know what you think, bros!

 

[HandsOfDespair]

righty, i reamped the guitars about an hour ago

so this is a very quick mix, monitor mix if you like

Reamped with my krank!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/369408/ControlState 2nd mix.mp3

best mix so far IMO

guitars sound fucking great, which krank do you have?

 

[MetalJonesy]

best mix so far IMO

guitars sound fucking great, which krank do you have?

cheers bro! its very a primative mix!!! guitars need way more work imo, and i very quickly mastered it too and didnt spend time on the vox!!! so its very rough around the edges

Its a Krank Rev Jr into a Marshall 1960A with V30s

Updated mix, more tuning on the drums and guitars, and alot more bottom end fullness from the bass. a bit warmer than the previos mix! more vox mixing too!!!

its a tad bit too loud, and thus mushy in places, think the bass is too loud! plus the gclip is being pushed too hard!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/369408/ControlState 3RD MIX.mp3

 

[Let it burn...]

Here's my mix and i had/have some major tempo problems lolz

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vwztnwm4baz

Keep in mind that it's the first time i used logic, reamped through my laney and used my new monitors so it's a learning process . I think i overdid the mixbus compression too hehe.

 

[Let it burn...]

looks like i had some really strange wave problems too. My mix sounds way lower compared to the others . that explains the tempo problems

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

looks like i had some really strange wave problems too. My mix sounds way lower compared to the others . that explains the tempo problems

Mixed in 44.1 kHz? The wave files are 48 kHz

 

[Let it burn...]

Mixed in 44.1 kHz? The wave files are 48 kHz

yeah, crap. Shoul've noticed it but it sounds a bit more death metal now

 

[georgekant]

Well,

After one of our fastest mix & masters ever we provide you with 2 links with mastered files.
One with loud industry settings and one which gives more value to dynamics.
For the drums we used BFD and the whole mix and master process went through many plugins and hardware.
Some decisions we made was:
1) to NOT make it "wide" because it doesn't fit the genre in our humble opinion
2) to NOT go on with the LOUD attitude which kills dynamics
3) then we did also a LOUD master because you will probably prefer it as many clients do
4) treated the vocals like a "hard/nu metal vocalist" and not as a "black metal/grindcore vocalist". Kept them straight except from the backing vocals were we made some room to feel something like the best old moments of Fear Factory
5) treated the drums in a modern metal/punk/numetal attitude but from a different angle. We didn't made a high frequency kickdrum because the music is atmospheric with great melodies and we tighten up the kickdrum with a muddy but big bass so we can achieve a more "stead up and headbang" attitude.
In a few ways we made some choices we are working on lately with some bands and work really good, meaning "to get rid off the usual aspect and give a more punchy and bigger sound but with direct sounds and avoiding wide imaging and reverbs..".



DYNAMIC MASTER

LOUD MASTER


We wait for your thoughts..
I personally made this express mix/master.

VIRTUAL-SOUNDS
George Kant.