Working with a Genre Switch!

[NSGUITAR]

I just got done with a band.. Just one song for now, then a full album in a couple of weeks... It's quite odd music really.. But not really at the same time.


Basically the music starts out at very post hardcore/emo/pop sound, and then towards the end it turns very typical hardcore (or crabcore or whatever)...


Dealing with guitar tones and such, how would you guys go about making this work? I get the mix sounding fucking sick for the first section, then when the heavy stuff comes it it just sounds bland..

 

[P-E]

I'm sorry I can't get much more specific but all in all I'd get some basic tones that sound good and then automate everything a lot.

 

[NSGUITAR]

I'm sorry I can't get much more specific but all in all I'd get some basic tones that sound good and then automate everything a lot.

That was my plan, actually! But I wasn't sure if there was any special trick people follow

 

[gabriel g.]

find a tone that fits both worlds.
A good example is "SET YOUR GOALS"
a bad example is "A DAY TO REMEMBER"

 

[NSGUITAR]

I hope I got it right! Here's the song I was talkin about:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/rate-my-mix-tone-threads/655537-oh-haaaeeee.html#post9610315

 

[if6was9]

Yup automation is the key. For some more extreme stuff I'd maybe use different samples on drums. My own bands stuff vary quite alot, we recorded a song that has some brutal parts, some more "big" slower chuggy parts and a clean Pink Floyd type thing. We recorded it in a studio before recording it ourselves and the guy left the clicky kick sound on for the clean section. Sounded terrible. When we did it ourselves we blended in some more of the real kick for that section and took the clicky sample dow a good bit and it sounded much more suited.

 

[XnaySaturo]

I don't usually work with extreme genre switches, but usually when I work with a song that has let's say heavy parts and clean parts, I'll have different bass tones and different kicks for those sections. Either automation or completely different tracks.

 

[colonel kurtz]

did you take a DI, or is it all mic'ed thru a single amp? if you have DI's, amp sims or reamping thru different chains can be your best bud on this one...

 

[amarshism]

Sounds like they wrote some songs, then crabcore became cool so they wrote a few songs in that genre, added em to the old ones which doesn't really help continuity or band identity and image, then decided they had enough for a full length.

 

[Melodeath]

Crabcore became cool?