Hi - new member here - please listen to my stuff and give me tips :)

[Dylan S]

Hi guys,

I frequent a few other forums and I've been told by some of their members that I should check out this forum, because it's a lot more helpful in terms of recording metal and so on than the others I go to. So I look forward to hearing your stuff and you hearing my stuff, and becoming a solid member.

Anyway, I've been working on recordings for I guess about 14 or 15 months now and I mainly record death metal. Here is my latest mix with one of my older songs...
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=817513&songID=7376068
I used a Loomis Schecter with blackouts, going into my line6 toneport using the line6 stuff for both the amp and cab sims, which I then recorded in Cubase SX3.

I decided to try impulses for the first time today and I recorded it again with some impulses and I think it sounds way better. Anyone got any tips however? In particular for the drum sound...which is EZdrumemr (and I'm getting very sick of haha).
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=817513&songID=7376068

Here is a link to my whole soundclick page if you want to hear anything else I've done too guys. I'll be posting some fully done recordings of my band Celephai soon.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=817513

Incidentally...does anyone know how I can record a direct signal with my Dual Recto and then use impulses for that? Because I don't think it has a lineout on the back. Do I use the FX send or something?

Thanks guys.

EDIT: I think I posted this in the wrong place so if it should be in the rate my mix section, feel free to move it mods.

 

[ahjteam]

Where is the top end? The mix is very dark sounding, like you don't have nothing above 7khz (except when that awful soundin cymbal comes at 0:20)

 

[Dylan S]

I am not sure. I know the cymbals sound bad but I haven't spent much time trying to make them right because I need my kicks and snares to sound better firstly.

I think the recording I did with the impulses has sufficient high end, but I'll mess with some EQ's on the guitars and see if I can get more high end in there without having too much fizz. One thing I liked about the impulses was that the high end wasn't as harsh sounding as the line6 modellers, and as a result, the line6 recording sounds much more dark because I got rid of all the horrible frequencies I didn't like.