i fucking love this band
no edits were done, no strip silence, no manually gating (cutting toms, kick, snr etc), no slip editing blah blah blah
drums arent edited, and no samples have been used whatsoever... it was a struggle as the drummer is a very dynamic player and as we all know, dynamics arent the best thing in death metal drumming. getting the kick to come through has been a test. the snare and toms have had so much carving they all sounded like balls before.
about 4 hours into mixing, heaps of bits are missing
guitars were mesa triple rectifier and 5150mkii through mesa oversized and orange ppc412. played twice on each side. i dont remember if say it was orange on one side and mesa cab on the other or one on each side with each head. each cabinet was mic'd with 2 57s one on axis and the other off. guitars used were emg loaded ibanez and esp mh1000 also with emgs. bbe green screamer in front of both amps. leads could have been the 5150 or recto, cant remember, we also used a bogner shiva, an orange ad30 and a few other marshalls for leads. no reamping, it is how it was tracked
vocals were a rode classic mkii into avalon 737sp, dont remember what we used for bass, i think it was one of those black fender jazz 'metal' basses.
it has been an interesting excursion into straying away from the use of samples and podfarm and whatnot, which i found very testing and challenging, but is a very slow, humbling and fun experience. its amazing how much you start to get anxious when you look at the drums and pretty much nothing is exactly on the grid as you would normally do it...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6361630/02 born into.m4a
comments greatly appreciated...
no edits were done, no strip silence, no manually gating (cutting toms, kick, snr etc), no slip editing blah blah blah
drums arent edited, and no samples have been used whatsoever... it was a struggle as the drummer is a very dynamic player and as we all know, dynamics arent the best thing in death metal drumming. getting the kick to come through has been a test. the snare and toms have had so much carving they all sounded like balls before.
about 4 hours into mixing, heaps of bits are missing
guitars were mesa triple rectifier and 5150mkii through mesa oversized and orange ppc412. played twice on each side. i dont remember if say it was orange on one side and mesa cab on the other or one on each side with each head. each cabinet was mic'd with 2 57s one on axis and the other off. guitars used were emg loaded ibanez and esp mh1000 also with emgs. bbe green screamer in front of both amps. leads could have been the 5150 or recto, cant remember, we also used a bogner shiva, an orange ad30 and a few other marshalls for leads. no reamping, it is how it was tracked
vocals were a rode classic mkii into avalon 737sp, dont remember what we used for bass, i think it was one of those black fender jazz 'metal' basses.
it has been an interesting excursion into straying away from the use of samples and podfarm and whatnot, which i found very testing and challenging, but is a very slow, humbling and fun experience. its amazing how much you start to get anxious when you look at the drums and pretty much nothing is exactly on the grid as you would normally do it...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6361630/02 born into.m4a
comments greatly appreciated...
but thank god! someone doing things properly. 
