Subversi0n NEW Album 100% self recorded/Mastered

[ssskai]

The band have been working on an album for quite a while now and i have been working on perfecting our production quality for what seems like a lifetime in order to achieve the sound the band wants etc.

This is a "Promo Audio Track Video" Posted on youtube giving a small demonstration of sound of the album:​

After many months on end solid tweaking and experimenting without any sleep i think i have cracked what is now adopted as "subversi0n's Sound".
We are very low budget and don't really have much money to spare so we have to squeeze every drop of performance out of the gear we use.

In the case of this album, the guitars are almost entirely recorded through a pod x3 Pro going in to an Mbox 2 directly and utilising Pro Tools 8.
Drums were recorded at my university's Sound studio on a Pro Tools HD system and i had a lot of lovely Equipment to work with there, if a bit unreliable (it being an educational establishment etc).

The bass drum is triggered and we use a trigger sound that is specially for the album (we don't use triggers live) so as to give us the desired punchy kick sound we are aiming for.
For the snare we used an sm 57 on the top skin and a 58 for the snare underneath (my uni ran out of another 57 lol).
We were very lucky with the overheads as we had two C414 Mics and they just sound amazing no-matter what you use them on
Guitars have been tracked 6 times each and we utilise the "Dual Tone" feature on the pod x3 pro to a high degree...oh and we use two 7 strings tuned to drop G (drop C with extra low tuned to G) and a 5 String bass.



The album is still very much a work in progress but we would love to hear what people think of the production, critique, ideas, what you like or dislike about it etc.

We have created a compiled taster track for the album to give a little tiny taste of what it sounds like, as well as a full track "bypass".

To check it out head over to:​

SubVerSi0N Myspace

Have a listen to the player on there, dw we replaced the myspace player (shite quality), with the not so shite quality reverbnation Flash player so it should sound ok.

While im here i might aswell link you to our facebook if you dig us:​

www.tinyurl.com/svsnfacebook
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Here is another full track off the album, quality is a bit hindered by soundclick but its listenable.

[[[[Seizure Album Promo]]]]

Subversi0n hasn't had many live gigs but here is a couple of videos of us taking part in our first ever gig fresh out of the practice room at Red Roar Festival on the "mane" stage. The sound quality is piss poor but what can ya expect from a phone (not bad video quality mind):​

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Thanks for taking the time to check it all out, any questions, criticisms, ideas, anything at all, please feel free to say

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[updog]

I listened to the song in Soundclick, and I'm not sure what to think about how the snare sounds. I kind of think it sounds bad but then again I think it's nice it sounds somewhat different. There were some a bit lower vocals that didn't sound they didn't have nearly as much reverb as the lead vocals, and were kind of too much in your face compared to the lead vocals. I think the synth parts and maybe even the bass drum are a bit too loud. But then again, I couldn't probably do as well as you did so I might not know what I'm talking about. Overall I like it, and the vocalist is very good even though I usually don't like clean vocal parts in songs like this.

The second live video sounds like someone is frantically scratching

 

[ssskai]

lmao agreed, i think it was the snare tipping his poor phone over the edge or something haha XD

thanks for checking it out man, glad you liked the overall sound, we are itching to get this album finished and released atm, been writing for it for a very long time now.

 

[updog]

I'm very much in the same situation as you were, with the exception of having to do all this at my place, recording guitar DI's and e-drum midi. I probably won't get it sounding as good as this anyway

 

[ssskai]

I listened to the song in Soundclick, and I'm not sure what to think about how the snare sounds. I kind of think it sounds bad but then again I think it's nice it sounds somewhat different. There were some a bit lower vocals that didn't sound they didn't have nearly as much reverb as the lead vocals, and were kind of too much in your face compared to the lead vocals. I think the synth parts and maybe even the bass drum are a bit too loud. But then again, I couldn't probably do as well as you did so I might not know what I'm talking about. Overall I like it, and the vocalist is very good even though I usually don't like clean vocal parts in songs like this.

cheers for the detailed reply btw man. yer we do have a some what strange snare sound, wanted it to be different to stand out in a weird way, for example the band SCAMP dont attach the snare to the snare drum in their recordings and it sounds very interesting to say the least but it works lol.

as for synth, we generally have the keys up loud as we are primarily very synth driven in our tracks, this happens to be more of a djent style track with less of the synth so our keys player can show off his dual vocals with the lead vocalist.

I have spent a lot of time in the end with the kick drum and the band jsut wanted it nice loud punchy and clear without drowning anything out and i feel i achieved this in the end even if not to everyone's tastes

definitely room for improvement though as you have pointed out and we have plenty of time to make adjustments in production before release, a major asset of self producing and mastering your bands stuff

I'm very much in the same situation as you were, with the exception of having to do all this at my place, recording guitar DI's and e-drum midi. I probably won't get it sounding as good as this anyway

bro u deffo can get it sounding amazing from home, only thing we have from recording at my university studio is the top half of the drums effectively as the kick drum was triggered for the album and could of easily been done in my own bedroom. everything else for the album was recorded at my place on my own system, guitars DI, vocals, bass, synths...the lot