Thanks for the comments.
I need to make it clear that I don´t take much credit on it. The guitarrist is the one who mixed it. He´s a good friend of mine and taugh me at least 50% of all I know about music production. He´s also an incredible guitar shredder.
I decided to post it here because this week he showed me the finished album (pre master actually) and I really liked it, but as nome of my friends are into music production neither modern pop rock, it was pretty sad for me to don´t have anyone to talk about it
As they were recording the album I was going through some heavy health problems, so I unfortunately couldn´t follow the mixing process as close as I wished, but I think I can answer some things here. OK, enough of the bullshit.
The rhythm guitars are my ESP Ltd F-50 with EMG 81 on the bridge and 85 on the neck, although they used only the 81. They also used a Gibson Les Paul Custom with stock pickups for the leads. The Ibanez TS7 was beeing used only as a boost for the Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier of course. If I remember correctly the cab was a Behringer with speakers changed to Celestion ones. I was surprised on how litle EQ was necessary to make the rhythm tracks fit on the mix, Mesa Boogie is really a monster. The neighbour complained everyday about the noise LOL
The language is portuguese (from Brazil).
The bass was an unknown beaten-up model with passive pickups that they used on the pre-production, but the performance on those tracks were so good that we decided to reamp the DIs using my ReAmp V.2 and Sansamp BDDI.
The drums were 'real', with Evans heads and Sabian B8 Pro cymbals. The samples used were recorded right there from the drums itself (not external/comercial samples). The time warp was done on Ableton Live but the performance was really good, so it was a no brainer.
The vocals were done using
this condenser mic that I forgot the name, but you should probably know it.
The mix was done on a PC with Nuendo. No outboard gear used. Everything on VSTs, mostly Waves. Not many magic or fancy tricks here, actually it´s only a guy who knows what he´s after and knows how to achieve it.
The master is actually a scratch just to make the mix loud enough to listen without having to turn the volume all the way up. I agree that it´s over on the limiter, keep in mind that this is just provisory, as they´ll probably send the mixes to a great mastering studio.
