New Darkadian track finished!... sort of...

[Mattayus]

Need a few pointers on this one I think.

This is a SUPER old song back from when I was the only member in the band

Darkadian - No More Room In Hell

Now, mastering seems to be where I had most of the problems, particularly the clean section. Can anyone hear - when the heavy bit fades away and the clean guitars come in, they fade up in volume as the compressor relaxes from the heavy part. I can't seem to get it to blend well, and the attack of the cleans is all over the place! One minute it's fine, the next minute it's peaking.

Also, thoughts on the kick would be nice. I've been trying to nail a really saturated huge wet kick lately, ala DevilDriver/Fozzy etc. Tips would be awesome.

Any thoughts on the tone are also appreciated!

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Mattayus]

Anyone!?

 

[Harry Hughes]

I dig it man, once again.
Guitars and bass guitar sound great although the guitars could stand to have maybe 0.5dB shaved off around 7KHz.
Snare doesn't have quite enough push, it seems a little subdued and held back in the mix, and contributes to giving the mix a smaller feel than it should

 

[Mattayus]

Yeah man me and my drummer sat down and worked hard on the snare last night. He's used piccolos for years you see, thought I'd try to replicate his sound but after a discussion we came to the conclusion that it might not work for this band, so we worked on something entirely different, will post an update shortly!

 

[Mattayus]

EDIT: Ok, listen now, it has a new snaaaaaaaaaaare! Needs to come up a bit though, sounding a bit distant, but besides that I'm pleased with it!

 

[Harry Hughes]

New snare is definitely better bro, I dig it

 

[Mattayus]

Thanks bro,
Something really odd about the flams though. They have no power for some reason. Like the sticks are just being 'dropped' on the snare instead of hit.