i just returned from the videoshoot (first time being the producer and also helping with the video, i felt like a star ;-), so id like to share my latest production im very proud of.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=885205&songID=8878084
although i never really listen to this style, it was fun working with these young guys. the drummer is 16, he is really good for that age, but i decided to go for edrums into slate/superior this time (we were on a really really low budget, so there was no time for drumquantization other than midi "hit q as hard and often as you can" quantizing.
guitars are diamondplate. i know the whole slate/podfarm thing gets boring to most people here, but i honestly think that its one of the most costeffective and fastest working methods for small small bands.
the hard thing was telling one of the 2 guitarplayers that he wont be playing on the songs... as i described we're on low budget and i knew he was the weak part of the band. so he came to the studio, pulled out his guitar and was like : ok lets go.
dudes didnt tell him that he was not gonna play on the album... so i had to tell him, explain the whole thing... man its so hard to tell someone hes not good enough...
recorded/produced/mixed and mastered at my place.
im especially proud of how nice everything sits. guitars are wiiidee,
vocals are 100% centered this time. they were tripletracked, and in my first mixes i had 1 hard left, 1 hard right and 1 center. i figured that i liked it wayy better to have the guitars being the only instruments on the sides (except for overheads and some fx). its almost like a tunnel now, vocals are loud enough but not overly loud. i hate vocal up mixes. makes the instruments small and boring.
masering is basically clipping the shit out of the mix. i think there were 5 instances of gclip , 2 on both snares, 1 on kick and 2 on the masterbus.
tell me what you think! it was very hard, as this band has 4 singers... whhhaaaa! gonna post the video in the next 2 weeks, when they release that stuff.
also for the german guys here : the singer who sings "i told you once before" and "and maybe one beatiful day" is the guy fromthe annoying congstar commercial saying : "absolut kati, sie telefoniert shcon 120 minuten "
so whatya think ?
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=885205&songID=8878084
although i never really listen to this style, it was fun working with these young guys. the drummer is 16, he is really good for that age, but i decided to go for edrums into slate/superior this time (we were on a really really low budget, so there was no time for drumquantization other than midi "hit q as hard and often as you can" quantizing.
guitars are diamondplate. i know the whole slate/podfarm thing gets boring to most people here, but i honestly think that its one of the most costeffective and fastest working methods for small small bands.
the hard thing was telling one of the 2 guitarplayers that he wont be playing on the songs... as i described we're on low budget and i knew he was the weak part of the band. so he came to the studio, pulled out his guitar and was like : ok lets go.
dudes didnt tell him that he was not gonna play on the album... so i had to tell him, explain the whole thing... man its so hard to tell someone hes not good enough...
recorded/produced/mixed and mastered at my place.
im especially proud of how nice everything sits. guitars are wiiidee,
vocals are 100% centered this time. they were tripletracked, and in my first mixes i had 1 hard left, 1 hard right and 1 center. i figured that i liked it wayy better to have the guitars being the only instruments on the sides (except for overheads and some fx). its almost like a tunnel now, vocals are loud enough but not overly loud. i hate vocal up mixes. makes the instruments small and boring.
masering is basically clipping the shit out of the mix. i think there were 5 instances of gclip , 2 on both snares, 1 on kick and 2 on the masterbus.
tell me what you think! it was very hard, as this band has 4 singers... whhhaaaa!
gonna post the video in the next 2 weeks, when they release that stuff.also for the german guys here : the singer who sings "i told you once before" and "and maybe one beatiful day" is the guy fromthe annoying congstar commercial
saying : "absolut kati, sie telefoniert shcon 120 minuten "so whatya think ?
