Deafheaven influenced track.

[Arvindsg]

Hey everyone, here's a track I made which was inspired by the band Deafheaven! Just did it for fun, so if you have a few minutes check it out and let me know what you think!

Thank you!

https://soundcloud.com/arvindsg/0198-1

 

[HeadCrusher]

Can't wrap my mind around how they got so much attention lately. Don't get me wrong I think Sunbather is great but I don't see how the appeal to the "Indie Crowd" that much. I mean they show up in quite so "Best of 2013" lists.

As far as your track goes I'd put a little more Reverb on the drums or at least lower them in the mix. Especially in the beginning they are quite overpowering. The rest of it sounds fine to me. Care to talk a little more about the mixing process? I'd be especially interested in how you tweaked Reverbs and Delays. I did some experimenting where I fed all my channels to a Reverb pre-fader and then turn down all the faders. That left me with a 100% wet signal. I then turned the faders back up just a little one after another. Made for a nice "Band playing in the Dungeon downstairs" sound but not quite what you (or Deafheaven) have got going.

 

[Arvindsg]

Can't wrap my mind around how they got so much attention lately. Don't get me wrong I think Sunbather is great but I don't see how the appeal to the "Indie Crowd" that much. I mean they show up in quite so "Best of 2013" lists.

As far as your track goes I'd put a little more Reverb on the drums or at least lower them in the mix. Especially in the beginning they are quite overpowering. The rest of it sounds fine to me. Care to talk a little more about the mixing process? I'd be especially interested in how you tweaked Reverbs and Delays. I did some experimenting where I fed all my channels to a Reverb pre-fader and then turn down all the faders. That left me with a 100% wet signal. I then turned the faders back up just a little one after another. Made for a nice "Band playing in the Dungeon downstairs" sound but not quite what you (or Deafheaven) have got going.

Yeah no kidding. Pitchfork, Stereogum, SPIN and the list just goes on and on. I feel like something that could have contributed to that success was the fact that their album art was used in the advertising of the iphone 5c.
Here's an article about it! http://www.metalsucks.net/2013/09/1...-was-featured-in-the-apple-iphone-5c-keynote/


And sure, no problem! The plugin I relied on for a lot of the reverbs in this song was Mreverb by melda productions.

The rhythm guitars are going through a standard tsex50 chain with mreverb at the end of the chain. i set it so that i was in a big room with a lot of reverb time with a good amount of diffusion and width, i tried to get the signal as wet as possible without sounding too unappealing.

The bass followed a pretty similar chain except I used ampeg svx.

The clean tone was done through guitar rig. i started off with the "atmo git" preset and tweaked it by adding heavy reverb (mreverb) and some compression.

The drums are metal machine with the reverb from izotope ozone 5 it was in "hall" mode with a good amount of pre-delay and decay.

My master bus was just a limiter haha. Let me know if you have any other questions!

 

[HeadCrusher]

Holy Shit, I didn't know about them getting featured with the iPhone 5c. I didn't even know the band back when it came out, haha. But yeah, certainly good for them and like others in this story mentioned it's probably just because of the album cover's color. Although the At the Drive-In feature on the yellow iPhone is kinda suspicious since they seem to be somewhat connected to Rodriguez-Lopez through their Management.

Anyway, thanks for the detailed rundown, that sure was helpful. So if I understood correctly you used different instances of the reverb and different settings on all the instruments?

Here's what I played around with a couple weeks ago: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qz4ihorx134fi44/BM_Test.mp3 It's kind of a different feel and the Low-Frequency-Build-up in the Reverb is crazy. Takes like 5 seconds or so to die down.

 

[Arvindsg]

Holy Shit, I didn't know about them getting featured with the iPhone 5c. I didn't even know the band back when it came out, haha. But yeah, certainly good for them and like others in this story mentioned it's probably just because of the album cover's color. Although the At the Drive-In feature on the yellow iPhone is kinda suspicious since they seem to be somewhat connected to Rodriguez-Lopez through their Management.

Anyway, thanks for the detailed rundown, that sure was helpful. So if I understood correctly you used different instances of the reverb and different settings on all the instruments?

Here's what I played around with a couple weeks ago: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qz4ihorx134fi44/BM_Test.mp3 It's kind of a different feel and the Low-Frequency-Build-up in the Reverb is crazy. Takes like 5 seconds or so to die down.

I'm not entirely sure about the Rodriguez-Lopez connection, but deafheaven just got placed on ANOTHER list. They received #1 metal album of the year from Rolling Stone. Insane.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/l...f-2013-20131211/deafheaven-sunbather-19691231

and yeah exactly! the drums were the biggest challenge because I wanted them to punch through the mix while seeming "distant" and i'm pretty much satisfied with them other than the intro where they come off as a bit loud.

Also very cool track man! Reminds me of old ulver a bit (i love that sound) the guitar and synth are very cool, but the drums sound way too distant for my liking, at times its kind of difficult to make out, other than that cool experiment!

 

[HeadCrusher]

Just saw the #1 metal album before but you beat me to it. Anyway, it sure is crazy, but good for them. I only know a couple other bands on that list though…

Yeah, maybe I could add a little more of the direct signal to the drums. But since I went for that "band is playing in huge underground vine cellar and I just opened the door on the top of the stairs across the room behind the barrels"-sound I'm quite satisfied with how it came out. Maybe someday I'll actually finish a whole project in this vain. I'm not 100% sure about the synth arrangement myself since it plays major chords, haha. Can I pull this off in this genre?