Metal mix I've just finished (think Meshuggah, Fear Factory...)

[Sly]

Hey all,

I've just finished to mix a 5 songs EP for a cool band (they are friends ). It's a preproduction for a future album. Everything was recorded by them in their home studio and the tracks sounded quite good except some details : bit undergained guitars, too saturated vocals (I had to EQ/filter and compress the hell of it to get something good)... But it ends up great I think !
I mixed it in a few days with some great gear I have here : Apogee Rosetta, Distressors, UA 1176, Mindprint DTC, A-Designs Pultec EQ, UAD card...
The drums were programmed with Drumkit From Hell Superior (and I mixed it like real drums ! Ambience and so on...). I reamped the bass in an MXR bass DI to get some more dirt.

They are now searching for a good studio where they can master the whole thing. A studio called Trillium Sound mastered a sample of one of the songs for them, which you can hear here :
http://www.trilliumsound.com/samples/pt-s.WAV

This is not the final version because we have to work more on the levels (drums and vocals too loud IMO), but it should sound like that
I'll post the "raw" mix so that you can hear the difference.

 

[Djabthrash]

Sounds good.

I don't think the guitars need more gain.

 

[Sly]

Yes they do the job like that. I think that a bit of tubescreamer would have tightened the low mids a bit more, it was a bit muddy in there.

 

[Rob Logic]

I wouldn't necessary say guitars need more gain. They almost sound a little too behind in the mix to judge with reference to their gain. I would say push the faders up on guitars (as you said, vox and drums are too loud). I go a little too much with guitars, something I have to fix here as soon as I go pro with a public studio. I guess it's just the "more me" ego. I like the tone on guitars, just more of them. I would prefer a bit more verb to smooth out the drums. I can def here some room ambience with dkfh but, I would say snare needs a bit more decay to fill it out. Just my preference but I think it could help the mix a bit. Nice job brother!

 

[sallieritus]

I agree that the guitars don't have enough volume to them. Turn them up and maybe all will be solved. An example of a really good meshuggah tone would be www.myspace.com/periphery on the song "icarus lives"... I don't know how that Bulb guy does it but it sounds amazing

 

[Sly]

Thanks guys !