Female vocals + natural drums (Gothic Metal)

[Heabow]

Just finishing the mix and wanted some feedback - guitar solo not included yet (mastered file)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36870048/L-master1.mp3

 

[Heabow]

Anyone?

 

[Axell Strad]

Pretty clean and well-balanced mix. But on some parts drum toms sound a bit wry. So It wouldn't hurt involve more quantize here

 

[Plankis]

Yeah, this one is pretty close to finished. I'd suggest try making the bass a little louder and the guitars are a little scratchy sounding.

 

[Heabow]

Thanks for listening guys. I fixed some things and worked on the bottom...
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36870048/L-master2.mp3

 

[Heabow]

Bump

 

[outbreak525]

I definitely like the mix, but I feel like it could benefit from a little more power on the low end I'm thinking raising the bass drum a bit.
Otherwise it's very very clean, any details on it?

 

[aviel]

very good indeed. what did you use for those "whoom" vocs in the begining?
I would suggest more reverb on the vocals

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Wow, that's a beautiful sounding language, what is it??

Mix sounds really nice, totally fits the music.

 

[Heabow]

Thanks for the comments guys, I appreciate
She sings in Italian and it fits well the song! Not any particular processing on the voices at the very beginning, just reverb and delay. About the drums, I just enhanced the kick and the snare with a sample (50%/50% I'd say) Guitars are Soldano with Bogner cab (57+i5) in GAP pre73. Bass is DI, two tracks: one 'sub' and one disto through recto. I'd like to have different and good reverbs as I only have the Dverb.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Italian? wow, I must flush my ears now, as this sounded to me like elven

 

[Nuno Filipe]

That interlude with piano sounds more nightwish than nightwish!lol Nice mix.

 

[Heabow]

I'm glad you like the mix! It means a lot coz working on the low end and getting a good guitar tone is just my worst nightmare! And I was pretty happy with this project so it's cool

 

[aviel]

any chance to get info on guitar miking? is it fredman style? will be really happy to listen to a small guitar only version if possible?

 

[Heabow]

Yes, I miked a la Fredman. A i5 in front of the cone and a 57 at 45° directed to the cone. Both close to the grill. I pushed the PRE73's. The volume of the amp was pretty low. Processing wise, I cut a lot of 280-350Hz, a lot of 2kHz and also dug in the 3-4kHz area. LPF at 11kHz + a little cut around the fizzy 6kHz and HPF at 90Hz. Bus chain was VCC > SSLEQ > MPX > SSL EQ > C4.

I'll try to post a clip with the guitars soloed.

 

[aviel]

i really dig that sound man,i will be really glad if you will upload even a small sample of with process and without process. it will help me learn a lot