Sever The Voices - Old Wounds (reamp/m/ma)

[JeffTD]

This is the second release I've worked on for these guys; the first being their As Fate Conspires EP.

Self-tracked guitars/bass, vocals tracked by Marc-O @ The Grid, I programmed drums. Looking forward to maybe doing a full length with real kit!

 

[Christian WUFU]

This sounds sick, dude! Good job! The only thing I'd change would be to bring up the bass grit/distortion a bit. That's just preference, though.

What did you use for drums? Everything besides the cymbals actually had me thinking this wasn't entirely programmed.

 

[Vihaleipä]

Sounds pretty solid to me too, your drum programming sounds really good also, it actually feels like there is a real drummer playing. The mix has maybe a little too pronounced low-mids for my taste, but that's more like taste thing though, good job!

 

[PhilTheBeard]

Sounds sick homie!

 

[Machinated]

good job, sounds great.

 

[JeffTD]

Thanks dudes! I've always been super meticulous with my drum programming; I humanize all the velocities and then generally apply some kind of randomization of timing via the logical editor. I usually set it to the shell/cymbal notes late by 0-12 (I have no idea what this value actually translates to; ms? something small) and then use the strength-based quantized to re-grid the entire kit back by 60% or so. The end effect of this that very few of your hits fall exactly on the grid, and none of them fall exactly on eachother.

 

[giubis]

@JeffTD:

I wasn’t aware of this Logical Editor function in Cubase: really useful, thanks for sharing!

What did you use for cymbals? Possibly Made Of Metal?

 

[JeffTD]

Totally forgot to mention that - drums are Made of Metal, using another kick/snare sample (85%/20% ish blend respectively) to augment a bit.