Kurt Ballou/Boss HM-2 Worship Mix

[xTomx]

A local hardcore band who listen to nothing but Nails, Harm's Way etc so the HM-2 was mandatory.

Lots of tape saturation on everything courtesy of TB ReelBus.

Any advice, criticism whatsoever is welcome!

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[AllanD]

Snare needs a bit more brightness to match everything else. Other than that it sounds good! Is that the Outhouse Studios kick?

 

[xTomx]

That's the original kick with about 4-5 layers of compression and limiting haha.
In the breakdown at the end it's all the same sample of a harder hit though.

 

[Deadstar]

the kick has got too much "boom" (check the 80 - 150hz area), i'd fix that first for a more controlled low end.

 

[xTomx]

Cheers guys, the room I mix in is completely untreated so the more outside perspective I get on here really helps.

 

[xTomx]

Here's the full finished EP

 

[El_Gato]

Sounds hardcore. I like it

 

[Grå Värld]

Really cool. Can you give more details about the guitar and bass sounds? Dimed HM-2 into clean channel or used as a boost. What type of cab and what mics did you use? What did you do for the bass sound? How did you eq the guitar and bass?
Cheers for any info

 

[xTomx]

Guitars were my Epiphone Les Paul Custom with 85 and 81 into a Marshall JCM800 for one side, Hughes & Kettner Trilogy for the other. Both with the HM-2 running into a crunch channel (not highly distorted, not clean) then through my Zilla Super Fat Boy mic'd with a SM57 (Tape OP mod) and Cascade Fat Head.

Bass was a cheapo Fender Jazz through Sansamp then processed in the box.
Barely any EQ done to the guitars other than high and low-pass filtering.