Finally a full song/mix for my Band

[barricade]

Nice music man! ... Reminds me on Deadlock! ... your girlfriend has pritty similar vocal colour - and thats great!

 

[HandsOfDespair]

Man the new snare is perfect! A LOT better than in your first mix.

 

[ruonitb]

Great song, great performance and great mix!

Reminds me of Deadlock too...very nice.

 

[Mikko Vainiala]

Cheers Guys,

finally I managed to record everything for at least one song for my bands album, and mixed a "final" version for now.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Before_The_Fire_Mix_2010-05-03.mp3

Updated Version:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Before_The_Fire_Mix_2010-05-05.mp3

I recorded, mixed and mastered that stuff, played the rhythm guitars + did the growls.
My Girlfriend does the clean vocals.
Vox were recorded with PG81
Guitars Vox Tonelab (as usual)
Drums were Mic'd, but I reprogrammed toms and overheads with SD2.0 (fucked up the overhead mic positioning )
Kick is a blend of different sampes, snare is a blend of differend slate samples.
Strings are Symphonic Orchestra

Tell me what you think

I'm not sure about a bunch of things, but I'll have to mix it anyway again when I have recorded everything for all the songs ...will take *some* time though

cheers & thanks for listening
Marco

Hey Mago ghetto-bass ballzbreaker. Lots of work for a one man/couple. Congrats. Plus Alanis Morrisette doing metal dejavu here.

I'd like put this file through my system and ask how it sounds then in your room/enviroment but too tired for that now.

 

[I_Am_The_Fury]

I'm not a big fan of the guitar tone, mainly for the intro. Altogether though, it sounds awesome!

 

[Mago]

WOW
Thanks a lot for that much replies guys, you rock

Wow Mago!

This is a very cool song. Sound overall is much to my taste, very cool. The only thing that I don't dig is the guitar sound. Sounds too grainy, not solid enough. Dang, your girl friend has a cool voice! I like the snare. Orchestra is cool. Like the composition and the musical flow a lot.
Looking forward to the whole cd.

Shogger

Thank you shogger! Yeah it seem as the guitarsound isn't everyones darling, but I have to like it for now Hopefully I can come up with some br00tal miced tones this summer...reamping time then I guess^^
for all the kind words dude, I also look forward to the CD lol

Nice music man! ... Reminds me on Deadlock! ... your girlfriend has pritty similar vocal colour - and thats great!

Yeah man, you wouldnt believe it, but I heard that allready before
I think its because not many bands do the Guy only screams / Girl only sings (in a normal, non opera way) variant.
Personally I don't think that they have the same vocal color, but anyway thanks, because I think everyone in that band is very skilled

Man the new snare is perfect! A LOT better than in your first mix.

Thanks!I'm glad to hear that man...it was a PITA I got used the the shitty snare allready, so it wasnt easy to come up with something new...

Great song, great performance and great mix!

Reminds me of Deadlock too...very nice.

haha, thanks bro!

Hey Mago ghetto-bass ballzbreaker. Lots of work for a one man/couple. Congrats. Plus Alanis Morrisette doing metal dejavu here.

I guess I'm gonna take this as a compliment, thanks!

I'm not a big fan of the guitar tone, mainly for the intro. Altogether though, it sounds awesome!

Thanks man! I appriciate it!

 

[Mago]

And btw, I've been busy the whole day setting up a new myspacedesign site, it didnt turn out very pro but it going to be enough until the release of the album

www.myspace.com/harpiadeiis

for those of you who are interested =)

The free EP wont be much of an interest I guess, as it sounds like crap imo (n00bs @work, recorded 2008, released end of 2009)

Also the "Studiovideos" wont be, at least for all the non german speaking dudes here , since its not in english + theres not much actual recording stuff going on anyway

 

[Nuno Filipe]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Before_The_Fire_Mix_2010-05-05.mp3
Here's the updated version
I changed the snare, more smack than punch, with more highs and less low end/boomyness, kicked out ambient and used reverb
Also took out some high end on the guitars
raised clean vocals in volume (gotta take a look at the dynamiks, dont want to overcompress. she never moves from the mic during loud parts^^)
raised highs in growls a little
tamed bass / low end

better now?





Yeah I kind of wanted it with a bit more low end (aka balls ) but also our 2nd guitar player told me its a bit bassy, hope I fixed it now



In fact I think EVERYTHING was the same EXEPT the fucking bass, which was a gettobass there, and here its a real bass. this bastard must have fucked up everything haha
+truth about vocals. I could give more space to the guitars in the other mix...I also think that there werent any strings...so, totally different playground^^


She said she's happy about every practice she can do, and to fuck up some others songs rather than just the ones of her bf
Mostly she's into Metal...but she had some years of singing lessons, so I guess she's capable of a lot of stuff (Pop/Rock).
The only things she really doesn't do is Classical Opera singing...and country I guess haha
She's also Iron Maiden fan btw

Dude the mew mix it´s a lot better and this new snare it´s much better and fits the song. Thing I would do is to bring up a bit the kick, just a little bit not to much. But this it´s just a matter of taste, I like to have the kick prominent on a mix. As I said before, the guitars have that thing in the high frequencies. If you like as they are, just dont do nothing. But if you feel that really exist something harsh in them, try to lower the LPF or search between 2/3/4 khz, sometimes there are some nasty frequencies here, and a simple cut sometimes work. But the mix sounds really good now.

If your GF likes maiden so she must be a cool person! ahah Dont worry dude because I dont like that kind of operatic vocals toouke:

 

[Mago]

Dude the mew mix it´s a lot better and this new snare it´s much better and fits the song. Thing I would do is to bring up a bit the kick, just a little bit not to much. But this it´s just a matter of taste, I like to have the kick prominent on a mix. As I said before, the guitars have that thing in the high frequencies. If you like as they are, just dont do nothing. But if you feel that really exist something harsh in them, try to lower the LPF or search between 2/3/4 khz, sometimes there are some nasty frequencies here, and a simple cut sometimes work. But the mix sounds really good now.

If your GF likes maiden so she must be a cool person! ahah Dont worry dude because I dont like that kind of operatic vocals toouke:

Thanks for checking it out again
Happy about that I dont need to tweak the snare anymore lol

I recognized the highs in the guitars too now (they are really prominent when I turn the volume up, easpecilly on the headphones)
Allready lowerd it in the new mix, but I think I can go even lower with the LP, and I'll search the in 2-4 k area for some fuckers
Hopefully I'm having more time for recording and finishing more songs when college isn't that stressful anymore

Yeah she really is, else I wouldnt be with here for 6 years now
Cheers bro, and thanks for your help!