Short cover of 'Coil' by Opeth

[schismatic]

Cover of Opeth - 'Coil':

Soundclick


Guitar is a Martin DX1 miced by a Rode M3 and SP B1 > Toneport UX2

Bass is DI > Toneport UX2 > Ampeg SVX > Impulse

Vocals are SP B1 > Toneport UX2


Currently, there are no vocals for the female parts.........if anybody knows of a female vocalist who would fancy doing the part over the net, let me know! Please critique it if you have time as I am not that experienced with the mixing process and am always looking to learn more. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Toni S.]

Wow dude, I really like your voice, great singing! The guitar track has some unwanted hizz/noise, so try to cut that out with a gate or something. Compress the bass a little more and a slight compression on the vocals could make them sit better in the mix.

Nice work

 

[schismatic]

Cheers for the tips, I think the vocal compression has helped slightly. I'm pretty sure some of the guitar hiss was coming from bad levels causing clipping. I monitored the original mix's meters and they were distorting past 0 for a lot of it. I had a bit of a remix and I've re-uploaded a newer version in place of the original one. Glad to hear you like the vocals!

 

[Morgan C]

Links not working for me..

 

[Damphire]

link is dead

 

[schismatic]

i tried replacing it with a newer version on soundclick but their site is timing out at the upload stage. i've put it on rapidshare instead: Coil

 

[Morgan C]

Can you post the settings you used for the bass? Sounds really nice.

What nationality are you? I have to say, I don't really like the vocals in the intro simply because of the accent But the "running through the fields of sorrow" is amazing! You sound like the REM singer a lot there, it sounds great.

 

[Jaymz]

Sounds reeeealy good! What a song!

 

[schismatic]

I'm in uni at the moment so I don't have the bass settings but I'll dig them out later. I'm British (Welsh in fact), so I suppose my voice isn't going to sound like the bog-standard American-type accent-less singing that most records have these days. Actually that got me thinking, there's not that many singers around where the accent can be distinctly recognised - i can maybe think of Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro as an example of someone whose accent comes through a lot, he sounds really Scottish on some songs. Still need that female vocal damn it! lol

 

[Damphire]

loved it ;-)

 

[Metaltastic]

Oops, downoading the mp3 now...

 

[Ihsahn1981]

How close were the mics to the guitar?
Too me it kinda sounds like they were a bit too close, but that might just be a matter of taste too

I find that I tend to move the mics further and further away from the guitar as I try to record it.
So the lesson I learned was: Set up the mics where you think they should be and then back them away a bit

Btw, you should have a pretty clean preamp as you really have to push it to get a good signal (usually)