Killswitch Cover

[Machinated]

I posted an old mix of this a while back, decided to remix it, been doing bits and pieces of it when I have had the time. Decided to mix it with the Sonalksis compressor on the mix buss. Any opinions of the mix would be cool, I think its quite an improvement from the version I last posted. Would have dug up the old thread, but I thought I'd just go ahead and start a new one in the right section. If anyone wants any details of the recording or mix, I'm willing to help.

In The Unblind REMIX

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Sounds pretty good to my ears. You wouldn't happen to know what Howard does to his vocals that makes them sound like they are going through an airhorn would you (the clean ones)?

 

[Machinated]

No idea, probably the combination of the way he sings, the mic and some processing on them. Cheers for listening to it man!

 

[AStacy2]

Try this. Cut off everything below ~350hz and above ~3k, boost ~1.5k-2.5k, cut ~250. Boost/cut everything more than you usually do. Compress as hard as possible too. Gate pretty hard too. Sounds like you're singing through a megaphone.


I did this for a singer who really liked the live version of some STP song where I think he actually did sing through a megaphone??? It's a bonus track on a CD I think...


You might be able to not do everything so extreme and get closer to Howard but that should get you close.

 

[t-willy]

damn dude, great job. very impressive vocals. cool to hear the spoken parts with a bit of an english accent

 

[Machinated]

Cheers man, the more and more I listen to it, the less happy I am with the bass sound of the mix. Im going to try and fix that. Any ideas how?

 

[chadsxe]

Kick seems to have way to much energy. I imagine it would not translate on all system. Maybe you turned it to loud do to the lack of defention. Everything else sounds really good.

 

[Machinated]

Hmm, I'm not sure where its coming from. When the kick is soloed I think it sounds great, and barely boomy at all. In the mix its occupying way too much. I think the bass guitar may have something to do with it, Ill try mucking about with that. The mix definitely suited the older speakers I was using, I have just tried it on other sets and the bass definitely stands out. There is something about the bass in this mix that I like, it just needs definition and more control. Anyway cheers for listening guys!

 

[trym^^]

yesssss. yesssss. this is it!
like back in the ol days haha.
kse spirit!! brutality!!

 

[joeymusicguy]

pretty good but the snare is way off

 

[Zombietakeover]

yeah great job dude......Usally nobody has the balls to post a cover song WITH vocals ...........All i see is ppl do they music and they usally leave the vocals off.....So props to ya for that

 

[everybody's x]

yeah great job dude......Usally nobody has the balls to post a cover song WITH vocals ...........All i see is ppl do they music and they usally leave the vocals off.....So props to ya for that

I stole this from Keiffer and did the vocals
http://www.allcapsrecording.com/media/the_end_of_heartache.mp3

 

[everybody's x]

very good job machinated

 

[Machinated]

BUMP! Remixed this today, let us know what you think. Guitars are PodXT, drums are DFHS etc. I quite like the guitar tone I got in this.

In The Unblind

And thank Descent for providing the vocals!

 

[Descent]

no worries my man.
t-willy, ha ha yeah i guess the english accent still comes thru, i quite like that tho, too many non american bands singing in american accents these days.
For all our talk about great mic's/ pre's / mic'ing methods etc, i did the vox for this just holding a sennheiser e835 which was plugged into my digi002. no pop shield or anything! just goes to show that with compression, eq etc u can get great sounding stuff with real basic setup.

 

[JoshSylosis]

sounds really cool

what snare is that? sounds JUST like the snare on AOJB

could you shed any light on which snare and what kinda processing is on it?

 

[Machinated]

Cheers dude, the snare is a mix between one on DFHS, not sure which one as I bounced it ages ago, and 2 other samples I have lying around. As far as EQ goes, I just EQ'd all the nasty rings out, boosted some highs and cut some mids. Think I used a Q10 for the surgical stuff, and the Sonalksis EQ for the more general EQ. I compressed it pretty heavily with the URS 1975 compressor too. Most of the sound that is similar to the KSE one is probably from the samples, one of which is a Sonor snare and the other is called MT Snare Ambient. I can upload them if you want.

 

[xconnyx]

....to know what Howard does to his vocals ...

actually its jesse leach who sang this one

the mix is pretty well done imho, but i figured that the bassdrum has to much energie in the low ends, not many but about 2-3 db less on a lowshelf would do it i guess, maybe 2db less volume too

i think i noticed that some drumparts are played not like in the original (as original i would consider the alive or just breathing version, the performance of yours is more like one selftitled cd, i like the alive or just breathing version more )

 

[Machinated]

Yeah, I did elements of both versions in this one. I quite like the bass drum pattern on the second verse on the AOJB version, I may change mine to that.

Yeah I completely agree, the bass drum is a little loud, need to get round to changing it.