New Stuff - Turned out quite Metalcorish

[Mago]

Hey Guys,

since I can't progress with mixing/recording my bands stuff right now I took some time off & picked up the guitar to jam around with some old riffs and some spontaneous stuff.
As usal when I'm in drop tuning things tend to get metalcorish, dunno why :Smug:

Drums SD2.0 (Kick replaced, Snare Slate)
Bass - pitched guitar (no bass at home atm)
Rhythms Vox Tonelab + ass load of processing

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mago_Song2010-04-03-Mix3.mp3

Excuse the faked solo section, I'm not a solo guitarist but I wanted some fast stuff going on there
It's also the first time I played around with synthy stuff...dunno if it's worth something.

Thanks & Cheers
Marco

 

[muckypup1]

Hey Guys,

since I can't progress with mixing/recording my bands stuff right now I took some time off & picked up the guitar to jam around with some old riffs and some spontaneous stuff.
As usal when I'm in drop tuning things tend to get metalcorish, dunno why :Smug:

Drums SD2.0 (Kick replaced, Snare Slate)
Bass - pitched guitar (no bass at home atm)
Rhythms Vox Tonelab + ass load of processing

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mago_Song2010-04-03-Mix3.mp3

Excuse the faked solo section, I'm not a solo guitarist but I wanted some fast stuff going on there
It's also the first time I played around with synthy stuff...dunno if it's worth something.

Thanks & Cheers
Marco

It sounds pretty fucking awesome dude

Also the solo was good

 

[Nauru]

I dig where the bass sits in this, it fills the mix out well. The cymbals are a little bit harsh though.

 

[Nuno Filipe]

I think I know that kick This sounds good dude, but the whole mix sounds a bit scooped IMO. But I think that´s more a matter of preferences. But those guitars rock hard. Good job. Btw, really cool song

 

[Mago]

Thanks for listening guys!

@muckypup: Thanks man! I still think that the solo sounds like a gameboy on Ecstasy though

@Nauru: I'm glad you think so! It's one of the first mixes were I'm quite happy with the bass overall and how it sits in the mix...I just think it's a bit loud now. Agreed on the Overheads

@Nuno: Thanks a lot dude!
Yeah you know that kick
At least in some way^^ I couldn't make decent multisamples out of the kick, but I really liked the sound of it(after some messing with the mids).
I had some other sample with the same charakter of sound and 3 samples, so I tried to match it to yours with the EQ and blendet it with another one
You're also a part of the hard rockin guitars, as you told me to take a look at the high end some time ago
About the overall scooped mix : I noticed recently that I like a slight dip in the low end area on some parts. Could be that I scooped one of the instruments too much, or the master EQ or whatever...I'll watch that!
Thanks again bro!

 

[updog]

that's a pitched guitar?? sounds pretty convincing to me

sounds great man! also like the tunes a lot

 

[Mago]

Thanks dude!
Yeah it works good in the mix, but solo'd it doesnt sound that convincing

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Yeah I think the low end on this is a bit overpowering. I would pull also some mids of the guitar. But the overall it´s very good and I´m quite impressed how you pulled this sound of a Vox Tonelab

 

[FIXXXER]

sounds really good man!
actually i like the solo part, even if it's faked!

cheers
S.

 

[Mago]

Yeah I think the low end on this is a bit overpowering. I would pull also some mids of the guitar. But the overall it´s very good and I´m quite impressed how you pulled this sound of a Vox Tonelab

Yep, boostet low end too much *doh*
I'll see if I can lower some mids on the guitars too.
I anyway want to try some vocals if I can make up some lyrics, then I'll take a look at the mix again.

Im also surprised that the tonelab finally sounds decent...doenst look that metal though

haha, it's funny thinking that the raw guitars sound something like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/BEFORE - GuitarsMago.mp3
:Smug:

edit: post #666 *EVIL* :Shedevil:

 

[Mago]

sounds really good man!
actually i like the solo part, even if it's faked!

cheers
S.

Thanks a lot!

My band's lead guitar player had a really hard laugh when I showed it to him
but then he was like "...but 90% of non musicians would never recognize it as beeing faked"
but even the faking wasn't that easy tbh...i had to do the 5-string-skips on 25% of the original tempo...even 50% was too hard for me