The Darkest Nights cover (check it out)

[Meche]

Hello everyone!!

I did this cover just to learn and experiment with different things.

http://www.soundclick.com/meche

Everything was recorded through the air. No POD, no Addictive Drums, no nothing like that. Please let me know what you think.

I don't like it too much but I don't know why. I don't want it to sound as the original, I just want it to sound professional. If you want to know any specifics as to how I recorded stuff, just let me know.

Tell me anything that's on your mind. I'd really appreciate it!!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Spread the vocals out more in the stereo field during the chorus.

 

[BC666]

Dont know original,but
I think snare and vox needs to be deeper in mix and cymbal needs to be much silent

 

[Jackal_Strain]

Yeah, both the snare and vox should. go down a few dB's in my opinion.
I also think that though the bass has a nice sound, it should have a bit more low-end to glue the whole mix more together. It could also come up a couple of dB's.

 

[Charlie E.]

You nailed the guitar tone imo. Sounds very similar to the original, especially the 0:22-0:27 part.
I'm not all that crazy about the screams, but that's probably cuz I'm too used to the original.
The only flaw I see is that it appears that you have too much hi-hat and cymbal bleed into your snare track. Or if you were micing the hi-hat perhaps too much snare bleed? The hi-hat and cymbals really jumps out at you when the snare is hit and are relatively quiet when not.
Did you bus the drums and compress them?

 

[Meche]

I'm glad to hear you liked the guitar tone!! That's been a bit struggle of mine for a while and I think I'm finally getting it. The hihat might be the problem. I compressed the snare and gated it, which is why the hihat pokes out more during snare hits. I could probably try cutting back on the snare compression and try not to gate it to the minimum when it is engaged.
I didn't compress the drums. I did buss them to a single stereo aux track, but I didn't mess with it. It was just useful when working with everything else.

 

[Charlie E.]

That's going to be tricky.
Maybe you can try to dial out the hi-hat with some eq?
If you had sampled the snare it would've been an easy fix. Just drumagog the snare with a clean snare hit.
Goodluck.

 

[Meche]

Thank you so much for the advice, Charlie. I'll try eq'ing the hi-hat out. I'll definitely try sampling the snare, too. Cheers and thanks again!!