Drop F stuff

Joshua Wickman

Joshua Wickman

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Mix i'm working on with guitars in drop F. I had the band tune the bass up on this instead of trying to match the guitars that low. This was something very different for me and figured I would get your guys thoughts on the mix. I did not run and pitch shifted bass or anything crazy and just used the bass as it was. I think it came out pretty good and was fun trying something new like this.

Enjoy

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610605/Myspace mp3/Mix v1.0.mp3
 
Dude ... Josh, I've been checking up on your stuff for a while and I'm always impressed as hell (I haven't posted much here since I've been uber busy with other-than-forum stuff, but I should be contributing more and commenting more). The mix sounds awesome, almost in a weird Acacia Strain's Wormwood meets As I Lay Dying kind of way (what sense that makes, I dunno). The ONLY flaw I could hear was the snare gets buried every now and then, but don't take that as an overly negative thing at all man! Kick ass job!
 
sounds realy great !
the only thing the made a red alarm in my head is the overheads - they are wierd freq-wise... a fix needed imo :)
 
the entire thing is sort of weird eq-wise, really strong in the mids, like towards the lowermids in the "cardboard" zone (500-800hz somewhere), and the overheads sound like they've been saturated/distorted some and are sort of brilliance-lacking. also, I find the cymbals a bit to robotic for my taste. guitars could go down a db or two. but that's the list over stuff I find bad with this production. the list of GOOD things is too long to even start writing. the tightness, guitar tone, vocals, levels, everything is just tits. great job.
 
I like the way it sounds bro. But i would probably grind out the bass a bit more and turn it up ;). And shit you could make the overhead's a bit louder! did you have any room mic's set up? if so bring those's up a bit to add some more room to the mix. But over all it sound's beast
 
I think the bass sounds weak and muddy on it's own, and that ride sounds really fake, other than that everything else sounds fine to me.
 
Joshua Wickman said:
Demolisher is Seth's baby. They are sick as fuck though! This is a different band.
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Haha thanks Josh. I must admit, there are times when this vocalist kinda sounds like Nick from Demolisher.

I really like this band and when I found out you were doing their album I got super stoked! And it came out sounding awesome!
 
Sorry guys i got busy and kinda forgot.

Drums are all midi and the cymbals are a my own samples. The skins i did some Sd 2.0 or Slate. I printed a few different samples and just forgot what made it in the mix. Nothing special really, just some eq and i did not use any room samples. I sent all the skins to a bus with dverb and then i send that dverb buss to another buss and kinda smashed it like you would a room mic. I just wanted to try something different, and i just bought the Devil Loc Deluxe so i had to test it out.

Slate Vcc is all over this and i also just bought the Waves Mpx Tape, so i used that on all the drums as well and also on the Master 2 Buss.

Guitars are My Schecter Hellraiser 7 string. I have it set up with .80 on top and then a .70 pack of 6 strings to finish it out. That went to my Type 85 dir and then into Podfarm. I was going to reamp but the band needed the mix back asap and did not want to wait until i had the free time (a few months later) to let me play with some reamps. So i ended up keeping the Pod on the mix and it sounds fine. I ended up using the other mesa dual rec emulation from the one i normally use just to try something new. I forgot the stupid fake name they give it.

Bass was my Sx (100.00 rondomusic.com bass) and i had them tune up to F instead of down. We used .90's on the bass and it worked out perfect. I wish i had more time and could have played around with some pitch shifting or blending in some Midi bass just to hold down the low end a little better. There is always next time. Bass was then sent to my type 85 dir and then to my Sansamp rpm. I did a blend of the rpm and a Podfarm (Sansamp>Ampeg head and 8x10 emulation) and it seemed to work out nice. I might have also used Mpx on the bass buss as well. I was going pretty crazy with that plugin!

Vocals are sm7 into Distressor and that's about it with some verb and delays here and there. I also used Massey L2007 to finish of the vocals and just slam them.

That's about all i can think of and if i missed anything, please let me know. Also the majority of this song was wrote in the studio (i even wrote the drums for 85% of this cause the drummer had just quit), recorded and mixed in about 2 days. So, yea there is a few things i wish i could change. Guess i have to learn to love it!

Also the band is Legion

Josh
 
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