oldschool meets breakdown? dense thick mix

[Lasse Lammert]

HEy lads, here's another mix I'm working on atm (you might have read the bands blog, I linked to it in the off topic tavern).

I kinda dig the music, lots of oldschool elements combined with more modern stuff....
anyway, not about the music, but about the sound

I was going for a rather modern mix that I wanted to be very thick and dense (I know, Metaltastic will call it "woolly", I was going for a kinda Devil Driver type of tone on the guits ).

this is the very first mix, no automation done yet, I still have to reamp leadguitars and do some other stuff....but this already shows the general direction I think.

after the cracky drums from the last bands mixes I was going for a thick and punchy drumsound on this one.

Wasteland

since I know that the guitarist is also browsing this forum:
Matze, feel free to chime in

 

[Jaymz]

Guitars are my fav on this, fucking great they are!

 

[Pxz]

This sounds great , i like the band aswell . Drums are tits , what are they ? Guitar tone is killer .
The WOOoooOOo part is nice , it could be a little louder if you ask me

 

[JeffTD]

Don't like the snare in that roll section in the beginning... but goddamn are those guitars good! Signal chain? Christ!

 

[Lasse Lammert]

thanks.





guitars are my Customshop ESP MII with 18v eMG 85-->TS9/808-->

-->2 tracks of 5150-->Mesa 4x12-->sm57

and

2 tracks of Recto-->Mesa 4x12-->sm57

 

[Machinated]

Really fucking like this.

as has been stated by everyone else, guitartone is godly. really good job with the tracking lasse, very impressed!

also digging the snare, what is it? in fact everything in this mix sounds great to me.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

thanks.

I fucking LOVE the Mesa Cab

 

[Black neon bob]

this mix is great Lasse, damn!
And that guitar, im not sure if anyone else mentioned this , is really great!

 

[Metaltastic]

Damn, you TOTALLY nailed the Devildriver guitar sound on TLKW IMO - great job! I gotta be honest though, that opening snare roll sounds horribly triggered, or maybe he's just playing it as single-strokes...but yeah, I don't find the guitars too wooly; if anything, they're a bit too smooth for me, not enough Rectifier bark, but they're certainly fit well!

 

[Metaltastic]

Also, I feel the snare might be just a bit too poppy (or maybe just too loud) - then again, I found the snare on TLKW to be too poppy to the point of being painful when wearing headphones!

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Damn, you TOTALLY nailed the Devildriver guitar sound on TLKW IMO - great job! I gotta be honest though, that opening snare roll sounds horribly triggered, or maybe he's just playing it as single-strokes...but yeah, I don't find the guitars too wooly; if anything, they're a bit too smooth for me, not enough Rectifier bark, but they're certainly fit well!

thanks.

haha, there is no sample/triggering on the beginning roll (zero!). that_'S just how the snare sounds


it's my Yamaha sd6455 with powerstroke 3...really easy to mix

 

[Metaltastic]

WOW, in that case, amazing job! The usual 2x 57's into API? But yeah, the poppyness still hurts my fragile ears

 

[Lasse Lammert]

WOW, in that case, amazing job! The usual 2x 57's into API? But yeah, the poppyness still hurts my fragile ears

thanks. yep, post prosessing with MH CS.

on the louder parts there's a tiny bit of FatCity blended in (not much as you can tell from the transition between the totally sample-free rolls and the augmented hard hits in the beginning)

 

[Jaymz]

post prosessing with MH CS.

Damn that plugin!

 

[Erik Monsonis]

OK Lasse, I'm sold.

You are my nº1 option to reamp guitars when I'll record the full lenght

 

[Unavailable]

Perfect dude!

I don't know if you've tried this or how well it would work, but maybe if you automated the volume of the bottom snare mic down a bit for that intro roll it would sound a little better.

 

[paladin shredder]

Perfect dude!

I don't know if you've tried this or how well it would work, but maybe if you automated the volume of the bottom snare mic down a bit for that intro roll it would sound a little better.

+1 pretty much what i was going to say.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Guitars are fucking squalid on this dude.
I love it.

The drums sound like theres a bit of pumpski on the fast bits, but it could be my speaks.

Other than that I think it sounds great.

 

[lolzgreg]

This is a pretty br00tal mix. The guitars sound very good. The high end is nice and present without being at all painful.

These are some great non-sampled drum sounds.

I want more kick and a little more clarity out of the overheads. The tom and snare do it for me.

+1 to what everyone else said about the snare roll in the intro section.

 

[abyssofdreams]

I'm missing a tiny, tiny bit more of bass maybe?
On the lows actually... the mids are great