[Death Metal] need tips on the mix!

[karankatiyar]

https://soundcloud.com/karan-katiyar/yodo-death-metal

Im trying to make this sound brutal, yet not incomprehensible. Maybe give it a modern touch in terms of mixing. Im not making sense am I? :zombie:

 

[szymon]

Take some more care of low mids. Either guitar or bass should be dominant there. Try to tame them in the bass first, and see how it sits.
I like the part from ~1:00, but this constant boom from guitars is quite distracting

 

[karankatiyar]

thank you for your feedback Ive already high passes the guitar tracks at 100hz.. should i shift it further? and how exactly should i handle the low mids? sorry for the stupid questions.. im new to this :s

 

[Jasonmadeco]

thank you for your feedback Ive already high passes the guitar tracks at 100hz.. should i shift it further? and how exactly should i handle the low mids? sorry for the stupid questions.. im new to this :s

For the low mids, you need simply to have a scoop at 250-500 area, thats where the mud is,

and slightly around 600-800 as well.

The tremelos sound fine.

But teh chugs were wayyy too low mid heavy.

Imo, drums could be more powerful. and bass brought up a bit.

But im no expert.

 

[szymon]

(...)and how exactly should i handle the low mids? (...)

That's pretty vague question for whole metal mixing and production haha
¯\(°_o)/¯
Tips above are good starting point. Also, take a look at Ermz' "Poking holes in high gain guitars" - you can find more general guidelines to this topic.

cheers

edit:generally high pass @ 70-80hz is enough for most cases. Anything more than 100hz is super-high imo.

 

[karankatiyar]

Alright! thankyou so much for your tips

 

[DanLights]

I totally get what you're going for in the chugs, I like it, but I agree you need to control a little bit the low mids. For this genre I always like to have the bass clearly audible especially in the chuggy parts, try scooping somewhere between 250 and 500 (sweep around, find a sweet spot) to leave more space for the bass, maybe multiband compression on the lows/low mids would also help, as it's in the chugs where it's most noticeable.

 

[karankatiyar]

sounds so much better already! thankyou so much!