The "Big" Rock Mix... am I doing it right?

[Soundlurker]

This project was a nice break from all the metal and hardcore I've been mixing lately.

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I'm responsible for the reamping, mixing and mastering.


Can't share much info on the actual recording - the band went the DIY route.

Any comments and/or questions are welcome

 

[Brady k]

sounds good , the snare needs more body imo, if you take out some hi freqs , you could shape it to sound a bit better, it could use more punch too, if you blend a punchy sample underneath that would work too..

 

[RandomOne]

wtf*cKk? that sounds PRETTY amazing but yes, snare needs some more body.

what guitars/pickups you used?

could you share kick/snare samples?

 

[storming heaven]

Whoa! This is great! Totally sounds professional. Agree with the snare, you'll need some big sounding mofo.

 

[Soundlurker]

Fair enough. I was intentionally a bit conservative with the drum augmenting since I wanted to retain a more natural feeling of the drums instead of releasing the millionth 90% Slate kick/snare mix With that said, there is a bit of slate's drums mixed in so I'm not sure it would be OK to post samples, though I'd love to help out.

I'll ask about the guitars/pickups they used. As far as the rest of the Guitar chain: it's the custom amp you see as my avatar through a blend of 3 different Mesa impulses. The amp is a bit like a mix between Soldano SLO100 and a Dual Recto but for this mix I decided to use my special setting to make it sound a bit more like a Marshall. Basically, I turned up the volume on the integrated boost (think of it as a TS), set the clean channel to crunch mode and cranked the gain, which resulted in a more raw and percussive tone.

Thanks for listening!

 

[HeadCrusher]

Afaik the guitar used was an Epiphone Dot with the standard pickup.

Bobby did a great job on the whole album! Everybody go and check out his other stuff!

The whole song will be available for free download next Sunday. Will come back here with the link for you guys. Also the Video for this song will be released next week. It made it's Radio debut today!

 

[HeadCrusher]

Here's a little update to those you might be interested.

The video to the song:

The album will be available on March 25th. Here are a few pre-order links:

http://www.musicload.de/stereo-season/escape-from-a-dream/musik/album/9674718_2
http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Downl...rchstring=escape+from+a+dream&urlrefer=search
[ame]http://www.amazon.de/Escape-From-A-Dream/dp/B004QF5FHI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300222272&sr=8-2[/ame] (Download) | [ame]http://www.amazon.de/escape-dream-STEREO-SEASON/dp/B004RMHADM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300222272&sr=8-1[/ame] (CD)

Hope you like it.