New Mix - demo of my band (real guitars, drums, bass, etc.)

[nwright]

I'm almost ashamed posting my work on here hearing what other people do.

Anyway, this is one of 3 demo songs my band recorded in April. We got a new drummer in February, and we were eager to get some new songs to tape with his playing on them.

Drums were tracked at a church, stereo spaced pair OH's (haha Behringer C-2 pencil condensers), everything else on the drums miked with CAD drum mics (again, CHEAP), snare was miked top only with a 57. I ended up replacing the toms and kick (chimaira toms, custom kick sample comprised of some miked tones I got blended with 2 or 3 seperate kick samples), snare is blended 70/30 in favor of the Sneap snare (70% sneap/30% miked tone). No quantizing or editing on the drums...Mainly because I don't know how to do it right, lol.

Guitars were my ESP Viper with 18 volt EMG 81's through a 6505+ and a XXX. 2 tracks 6505+, 2 tracks XXX with each side getting a 6505+ and XXX track. Cab was one of my Madison 4x12's with Celestion Vintage 30's, miked on axis with a single 57 about an inch outside where the dustcap meets the cone, about 2 inches from the grill.

Bass was tracked DI, an LTD B-500. I used a healthy dose of compression and Cubendo's own QuadraFuzz along with some EQ (still not happy with the bass tone).

Vocals were tracked with a Samson C02 condenser.

My interface and setup is Profire 2626 into Nuendo 3.

Far from pro level, and my gear is cheap, but this is a demo. For me and how I work, this was one of the fastest mixes for my band I've done, so until we record them "for real" (i.e. for release), this will suffice.

http://geetarguy.tripod.com/Victim_of_Mine_FINAL_041609.mp3

 

[Erik Monsonis]

I'm loving the song!! And the production is really nice for a demo, in fact it would need some minor tweaks and polishing here and there to be a final product IMO.

 

[nwright]

thanks. My biggest problem area is bass guitar, well at least to me...I'm sure you can pick apart other things.

Taking this to the next level, I know I'll want better OH mics, possibly miking more cymbals than just a stereo pair.

Better bass tones...If it's DI, I wanna make sure we get as good a sound as we can. I have the Ampeg SVX plugin, but it didn't do much for these tracks...using quadrafuzz and C4 got me better results.

I've got a few new mics to try out, and I ditched the CAD drum mics in favor of just using Ddrum Pro triggers. Snare will still be miked.

guitar tones could use some tweaking, but meh.

 

[ShreddyESP]

Wow dude, sounds really good! Did you post this on the espboards? I might've missed it!

 

[nwright]

I posted some snippets here and there Shreddy. I don't know if I posted the whole song. It's been on Myspace for while and I think I posted a link to that. But I thought I'd take my chances here on this forum to see what others had to say...haha!

 

[ShreddyESP]

Yeah i've heard parts of this song before, just not this version! Btw, check out my song if you've got the time!

 

[Rex Rocker]

Wow, the full-quality version sounds so much better!

I'm not entirely sure if it's my lame-ass speakers, but I think I hear some clipping from time to time.

I like how the bass and guitars are working together, tho. Real big and chunky all around. I honestly wouldn't say that's a problem, Nate.

 

[nwright]

yeah there is some clipping or something, little things you can hear at the beginning especially...I don't hear those on the wav version, though. I noticed it after I converted them to mp3.

 

[Mesa4x12er]

Sounds really good man! Looks like you've already addressed and are aware of everything that needs work.