Well here I am, another endless night fine tuning and tweeking mixes for my personal music projects... I decide to take a break before I kill myself to spare me from this monotony. So to hopefully prevent myself from getting cabin fever in this little studio of mine I decided to pull up an old session from earlier this year with a friend of mine and successful tattoo shop owner. He rolled into my studio back in March with a fender squire P-Bass, a Marshall AVT-50 and a head full of ideas. Oh and not to forget his drummer who had what was equivalent to a closed shell muppet kit, but a pretty solid drummer. He's an older fellow originally from the New York area so he's into the older Crust/Goth/Punk/Noise scene... Now from a musical standpoint I can (sort of) get it... but from an engineering standpoint, recording noise felt like a sin. Purposely aligning waves to get bad phase, throwing a sans-amp on every channel and maxing out the drive knob.... THEN ADDING ANOTHER ONE!! Hey it's what he wanted. I didn't have any experience in that genre so I let him relay what he wanted (produce?) while I made it happen.
Anyways... He's had several projects over the years and this one was one of his more "commercial" projects, A combination of that dirty old school crust with southern rock... to be honest I actually somewhat dig it. That's why I chose to remix and master it with some new techniques i've picked up recently. Now I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there who would possibly want to try and tackle such a mess as well, just for the hell of it. The raw tracks are about as unintelligible as they get, solid state amps with $100 guitars and a closed shell kick with cracked symbals. These guys are old school... They actually complained and said the mix sounded too good! Make it more noisey!!!
Anyways here's what I landed upon for a final mix and master (after they had left me to do my work) and I think it would be very interesting to see what kind of finished product you other "know it alls" out there can come up with. The only rule is use what's in the stems only. No trigger samples. These guys didn't play to a click either (all at once) so editing might be a bit tricky. I'll upload the stems if I get enough people interested in giving it a shot.
Anyways... He's had several projects over the years and this one was one of his more "commercial" projects, A combination of that dirty old school crust with southern rock... to be honest I actually somewhat dig it. That's why I chose to remix and master it with some new techniques i've picked up recently. Now I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there who would possibly want to try and tackle such a mess as well, just for the hell of it. The raw tracks are about as unintelligible as they get, solid state amps with $100 guitars and a closed shell kick with cracked symbals. These guys are old school... They actually complained and said the mix sounded too good! Make it more noisey!!!
Anyways here's what I landed upon for a final mix and master (after they had left me to do my work) and I think it would be very interesting to see what kind of finished product you other "know it alls" out there can come up with. The only rule is use what's in the stems only. No trigger samples. These guys didn't play to a click either (all at once) so editing might be a bit tricky. I'll upload the stems if I get enough people interested in giving it a shot.
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