Metal Mix - Live Drums

[Sam Bottner]

Any opinions on the mix, master, or anything else really would be greatly appreciated. Guitars are Lecto and impulses, bass grit is CrunchDude. I'm not very experienced tracking live drums either so definitely feel free to be harsh with your criticism on those.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7071005/Abide by Me/Denouncer.mp3

Thanks!

 

[joeban1986]

dude i am digging it , good job with the drums, i feel the vocals could be a bit warmer a sit better in the mix.for the guitars the tone is there, but i feel some harshness in the midrange a bit, but overall good job bud im digging it

 

[kaomao]

yeah drums sound very good, guitars shoulsd be fixed, try removing the harshness (3khz-7khz area)
The mix would benefit with some more lowend coming from the bass

 

[HugoRibeiroDotCom]

Awesome dude! sounds great! Also kick-ass drum sound!

cheers

 

[diegocasmo]

care to share to some of the equipment used to record the drums? I really like the mix overall, but I have to agree with the comments above about the vocals. Keep it up .

 

[Sam Bottner]

Thanks for the input, I ended up going with a 5150 on guitars so I'll post that mix in a second. Snare had a 57 on top, no bottom mic, toms were PG56s and the kick had a PG52 but that's almost all sample anyway. Overheads were PG 81s. I really need to get some better drum mics but I'm just making due with what I have for now.

 

[tomas_almeida]

I think it sounds cool but the snare is a somewhat boxy... Maybe it is because you didn't use a bottom mic to get more of the wires, which in my opinion make a snare more "broadband".

 

[Sam Bottner]

Finished mix, mastered by Ryan http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7071005/Abide by Me/abm master.mp3