Feedback Requests

[vale vapor]

the only things not saved is stuff like drum library, guitar tones, bass tones, individual channel processing etc

cause i switch those out alot per song

[tribal orbit]

Oh I usually find a tone that works best and that’s the one I use for the whole album for cohesion

[vale vapor]

oh for albums yeah

but i dont work on albums unless its for my band

[tribal orbit]

Fair

[vale vapor]

for my band i have chains for each channel and group saved

[tribal orbit]

I really ought to expand on ideas that my band never used

[vale vapor]

"<ALBUM TITLE> VOX CHAIN"

or whatever

guitar tone, cab, mastering chain

[vale vapor]

do it

[tribal orbit]

Like this one

Super lazy

But we never used it so I might do it solo

That’s from last February

Maybe I’ll work on it this week

Re-record it and write lyrics

And if they still don’t like it, release it solo

[storm furnace]

mastered it

[storm furnace]

The kick might be too far forward

[versed remnant]

A little more work has been done to this @vale vapor @tribal orbit

[wraith hare]

is that a midi guitar

gotta find my old stuff

i remember sending a bunch of my tracks to other discord server long ago

god i'm cringing from my old messages from 2022

[haughty kayak]

I will until one of the mods says otherwise

[formal hedge]

Everybody starts somewhere

[formal hedge]

That's good

You should cut highs on the kick

Not entirely but a lil notch down

Remove the paper sound

[versed remnant]

I'm so back chat

[dapper wraith]

https://www.thomann.nl/marshall_mg50gfx.htm
thinking of gettin a marshal mg50gfx. any opinions/tips?

is this a good amp? my price max is 300 euro

[vale vapor]

Whats your use case

What do you want it for

[dapper wraith]

to play guitar, i currently have a fender frontman 20g. amazing distortion for a fender amp. but i want something better, like this has a built in reverb, delay, more channels and an added channel footswitch. all things the other didnt have.

i'd like to play alround, all kinds of genres

but mainly metal and rock

[dapper wraith]

cuz i've got my current amp for 4 years now?

[vale vapor]

Well if you're just wanting to practice, go for it

If you're trying to play live at shows, or record, id go with something else

[dapper wraith]

yeah just practice :P

[dapper wraith]

okayy, thanks for ur help. ur awesome

[haughty kayak]

You dont need 50W for practice really

I got a smaller Marshall for same purpose, doesnt take any space at all too

[dapper wraith]

But how is the sound difference? Same tone nobs?

[haughty kayak]

Tbh I have no idea

It works for me just as perfect for practice

15W

[wraith hare]

i have 30w joyo (dc-30) and i really like it

[balmy igloo]

freddy fazbear type beat

[storm furnace]

i need help figuring out which one is better. theres one subtle difference and i cant tell which one sounds better

3 has an ambient drone really far back in the mix

[normal hemlock]

not entirely sold on the drone, personally

with a riff like that i expect pure energy and brutality, as least for as long as that riff is played

is the drone there for the first couple bars?

it sounds like it is but i could be tripping

[storm furnace]

its there for the entire thing

[normal hemlock]

right

okay

[storm furnace]

its a constant F# drone

[normal hemlock]

way i see it, at least in the intro, let the riff ride and once it slows down that's when it comes in

the drone, that is

[storm furnace]

maybe have it in the space where its more open like the part 2:04

[normal hemlock]

exactly

the ambience hits hardest in open passages

[daring juniper]

definitely hear the Gojira influence at like 1:30

[daring juniper]

this

[normal hemlock]

also your guitar tone is immaculate

just wanted to say that

[daring juniper]

ambience is nice in moderation

yea the tone is crispy and tasty

I love it

[normal hemlock]

when i think of utilizing ambience in a song that's meant to go hard, i always think of turning hate into rage by boundaries

[storm furnace]

almost all of my music inspiration comes from gojira, angelmaker, whitechapel, and peelingflesh

[daring juniper]

i think of carry the weight from wcar

[normal hemlock]

https://youtu.be/gvbfY0t2A84?si=rOU7cj2eKSqVK7YD&t=43

[daring juniper]

the ending is kinda creepy with it

or Cellar Door

the ambience in that

picks up at the end

which makes it creepier

[storm furnace]

this is a more whitechapel ish song

[normal hemlock]

you have this breakdown right, and during it the ambience fades in, it's more open, but then it immediately cuts out once the energy picks back up and it's more about being brutal again

[storm furnace]

its all from archetype misha mansoor

its quad tracked with a doubler turned on so its basically 8 tracks

[daring juniper]

definitely feel endless war on this

dope

[normal hemlock]

i have to say that sudden breakdown was more sudden than expected LOL

[daring juniper]

indeed

[normal hemlock]

usually it's like, 16 bars before a sudden breakdown but here it's only 10

so it completely caught me off guard

im loving this production btw

[storm furnace]

2 of the instances panned left and right are tweaked zack householder (the 3rd guitarist of whitechapel) presets and the other and the other 2 are a different preset from him but also tweaked slightly

[normal hemlock]

also i meant to say 8 and 6

[storm furnace]

i might redo the mixing for consistency sake with the drums and guitar tones of the first song i posted

[normal hemlock]

hey whatever you wanna go for

[storm furnace]

the mixing on that one was archetype gojira panned left and omega ampworks granophyre panned right

and default preset for odeholm drums

[normal hemlock]

unfortunately im not as in tune with production stuffs so i dont really know the difference

i just know that it sounds good

[storm furnace]

bass tone hasnt changed at all which is just darkglass ultra

[floral spear]

The drone is a nice touch, but tbh cut it in half, and use it as a lead up

Otherwise I feel like the effect it could have is lost and it just becomes noise

[storm furnace]

this is what i settled on doing

im kinda using it to cover up some interference caused by me being to close to the electronics on my desk

[scarlet brook]

evil mix

[wraith hare]

dayum 14 minutes

i remember making a track that was ~20 minutes long

actually i still have it

[balmy forum]

Does anyone have stems I can mix?

[burnt musk]

"Industrial ahh" track

[tender oak]

That was fun. Energetic.

[cerulean storm]

Same! It's my song for winter from my seasons album🙂 :

https://open.spotify.com/track/7N2Pxy5VbJGCjiQ83U7cdh?si=2a95d037ea144fde

[daring juniper]

it's so loud and chunky

[prisma forum]

my first attempt at a metal song, what yall think

[wraith hare]

is that ezdrummer "metal!"

[runic adder]

did a cover of Iron Sacrament by SotS

[fathom jewel]

it could be metal machine

[wraith hare]

no i think it's the "metal!"

because of the snare and kick

[versed remnant]

idk what genre thius is

[remote nacelle]

a knock of of on the verge by thrown

lol

[normal hemlock]

just seems like nu metalcore

[remote nacelle]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1EZ35gYHH03sSYn9f1zpLc?si=b9147080262a44f7

[normal hemlock]

yes i know what thrown is

[vale vapor]

LOL

[blissful cliff]

not wrong lmao

[versed remnant]

lowk saw this and scrapped it bc it does sound really close with the intro

made this tho

[lost dew]

https://open.spotify.com/album/3DZThtXzTizbnxfjqQ9adD?si=X_pbkb13RyKGPF1haZSFJg

New release

[fathom jewel]

refreshing listen, in the age of AI human imperfection is much appreciated

[vale vapor]

is this serious 😭

[vale vapor]

i mean all his cover art is ai

and profile photo on spotify

[fathom jewel]

lmao no 💀, I don't even know if that stuff is considered music, it sounds like voice notes recorded on phone

[vale vapor]

😭😭😭

[tender oak]

I was trying to think of where I heard it before lmao

[hollow sorrel]

https://87angst.bandcamp.com/track/gundesvermin-2

[wraith hare]

whoops

[lost dew]

1 is

[storm furnace]

new song. gonna humanize drums later but i might be done besides for some cool reversed audio stuff like the stuff in the way of all flesh i want to do. this one, like most of my stuff is pretty gojira inspired

the intro is very prisoner 666 ish

[rancid berry]

W🔥

[tepid adder]

DAMN that grooves hard asfff

what kinda vocals you thinking?

[storm furnace]

gojira or fit for an autopsy style

[tepid adder]

ohh ok

listening to it I heard randy blythe style work very well lol

i could see those too though tbh

[remote nacelle]

im sorry haha it was extremely similar so i diddnt know if you had heard it

[storm furnace]

i got a big question. rn i dont have a vocalist. i think the song stands on its own without vocals as of rn. i have a more deathcore focused demo already out, and i have a concept album planned with the songs in it once i get a vocalist. they sound pretty different so they wouldnt really fit together in the same album. should i release the more groove focused 6 string drop C songs in their own EP first and then revisit the songs from the demo and add vocals to them and make a few more in the demo style and release that as a full album

so far the drop C stuff is sounding kinda like gojira mixed with job for a cowboy doom EP

the deathcore focused stuff sounds more like fit for an autopsy mixed with whitechapel

theyre close enough to be under the same solo project/band but not enought to be on the same album i think

[tepid adder]

honestly I think that'd be fine

last night I was thinking about my band that consists of me and only me as of right now but I had a thought which was

wait a minute what if I randomly made a deathcore album I totally could

buttt

My music I like to write is more like... idk how to explain it but like j-rock inspired melodic metalcore-lite with in flames, a7x, and galneryus sounding leads

I like doing vocals a lot and playing dumb ass breakdowns however it wouldn't fit with my music lmao

so anyways I was considering doing a deathcore album or ep just for fun

[vale vapor]

dont do inhales

bad for you

[autumn ravine]

im better at lows that i am inhales

[vale vapor]

everything you can do an inhale you can do with an exhale

inhale is not a valid scream technique

if you wanna do it once or twice in studio for a short moment, go ahead

do not try to use it as a main technique

your vocal chords arent meant to phonate backwards

[autumn ravine]

how does that one donny from esophogus do it then

[vale vapor]

idk what that is

but i guarantee you he's gonna hurt his voice if he hasnt already

[normal hemlock]

yeah it'll catch up

same with the vocalist from the browning

he says it's fine but it's 100% going to catch up to him lol

[vale vapor]

yep

[autumn ravine]

i wanna try do the mcereey clicks

[normal hemlock]

plus, with inhales, you get significantly less dynamic range

[vale vapor]

it doesnt even sound good, it sounds really hollow lol

[vale vapor]

yeah and you can't transition into a scream from normal voice

[tepid adder]

Idek how to inhale lmao

[normal hemlock]

exactly

was gonna say that

[vale vapor]

it just sounds bad all around

[normal hemlock]

inhale vocals are fun for like

idk

doing a robot voice

lol

[tepid adder]

I just like yelling at people

[vale vapor]

yeah lol

LOL

good

keep exhaling

[normal hemlock]

it SOMETIMES has actual impact by creating gross sounds

only problem is you'll never be able to hear them live LOL

usually because inhales are very quiet

[tepid adder]

Lmao

[normal hemlock]

if you project with inhales that's where the real problems start

[vale vapor]

Yep

Literally will shred you up

[normal hemlock]

idek how people do it lol

[tepid adder]

Idek if I scream right but it sounds decent and it doesn't hurt so i guess that's good?

[vale vapor]

That's a good starting point yeah

@inland zinc

Obligatory ubrscreamer ping

[inland zinc]

Hello

[inland zinc]

Basically all that matters

[tepid adder]

Yayy

[inland zinc]

But it's pretty easy to accidentally do small stuff that will hurt you eventually, without knowing

[vale vapor]

And that you aren't losing your voice

Yeah

If you can scream for a while and you don't lose your singing or speaking voice, that's the right direction

Even without pain

[tepid adder]

I do something get like slightly uncomfortable if I do like 10 songs but like

[normal hemlock]

what's so weird for me

[tepid adder]

If I just take a sip of water then bam

[inland zinc]

https://youtu.be/nowQX_ZoPJs?si=UN9SGzYqcCAtOXSn

[tepid adder]

I'm fine

[normal hemlock]

my vox dont hurt me, but sometimes they do despite not changing techinque

not in like

a sharp pain kind of way

i know the proper techniques, im just unsure what the problem is

maybe hydration? because i know that plays a big part

[tepid adder]

Funnoly enough the way I learned was by doing brees

I found out I could bree like a year ago

While joking around

And then I just sorta switched the bree to an ahhh sound

And yeah I just went from there lol

[normal hemlock]

my brees used to sound like shit lol

they're far better now

[formal hedge]

@vale vapor is this in good quality

[vale vapor]

wait did you count in your drummer vocally LOL

There's a few things going on here, if youre asking if these can be used as the main drums in a song, def not

it sounds like you only recorded it with one mic?

the china sounds good tho i like the china

[formal hedge]

Couldn't record with more than one

[vale vapor]

Go with midi drums

you aren't gonna be able to record your kit

that requires a big budget

At least for metal and rock

every drum individually needs to be mic'd

[formal hedge]

Is there a way I can make it sound better in post

[vale vapor]

no 😭

you need to multi mic your kit

there's no way around it

multi mic your kit or use midi drums

you can get midi drums sounding perfectly fine

that is 100% the way to go when you have no budget or mics

[formal hedge]

My drummer will literally quit the band

[vale vapor]

you might be screwed then lol

[formal hedge]

Not even kidding

[vale vapor]

yeah youre screwed 😭

you can't single mic drums

unless you're writing indie music

or music that doesn't require separate drum channels

like black metal or smth

[vale vapor]

if he's that inflexible you should kick him out anyway

There is no way to multi mic drums without spending some money on a good set of mics, and LOTS of re-recording and knowing what you're doing

new drum heads, good sounding shells, etc

if he's that inflexible and unwilling to use midi until you guys have a budget, you may be better off without him anyway

[formal hedge]

Should I lie to him and say that the midi drums are his recording? I don't wanna do that but I may have to

[formal hedge]

I just listened with mixing headphones and it sounds SO BAD

Worth noting the "one mic" here is an andriod phone

@vale vapor Also, here's the full mix so far (with midi drums)

It sounds slightly off and I'm not sure why

[vale vapor]

No😭

Kick bro out

[balmy forum]

Heyyy! lol

[balmy forum]

Are they recorded with guitar di or a real amp

[formal hedge]

di?

[balmy forum]

Direct input

You know? When you plug your guitar directly into your interface

[formal hedge]

Well kind of

The amp I use, works like a DI

Just grabs guitar signal

[balmy forum]

So are you using a plug in for distortion

[formal hedge]

Archetype Gojira

[balmy forum]

Oh

Cool, maybe tweak the tone a little

Or go off a preset

[formal hedge]

I'm using JD RTHM 1

Preset

[runic adder]

what sounds off about it

[formal hedge]

Idk how to describe it

[runic adder]

for one the differing bpms of the intro sample into the song gives it weirdness

kick could come up a little and could do with some more top end

[balmy forum]

I think it just sounds distorted and raw

Might be their style tho

[runic adder]

the guitar sounds fine imo, could use a little scoop

it's muddy, just needs some clarity is all

[balmy forum]

Really?

[runic adder]

yeah

sounds like some mud in the mid/lowmid area, and lacking a little bite up top

I'd try a scoop at around 400-500hz and a little boost at 2k-3k

[balmy forum]

Fair

I can almost hear distortion in the overheads

[runic adder]

isnt that a synth layer?

couldve sworn its a synth

[balmy forum]

I don’t think so

[autumn ravine]

im thinking of doing a shaddow song but idk whast one

im thing from ruin we rise

ik the lyrics ik the song layout

[balmy forum]

There is a synth layer but I think it’s does have some distortion

[autumn ravine]

but idk the rap bit

its not like edited tho theres no layers no nothing

[remote nacelle]

the synth layer is too loud and distorted probably creating an illusion

[formal hedge]

I brought that one down a while ago

After I saved it

[remote nacelle]

oh cool

[balmy forum]

Also are you multi routing your drums?

Oh god I understand it now @vale vapor thank you haha

[formal hedge]

No

[balmy forum]

Do that haha

[formal hedge]

better?

[runic adder]

@formal hedge just did a little eq on the master so it

well you beat me to it

lol

[remote nacelle]

what drums are you using

[formal hedge]

MT Power Kit 2

[balmy forum]

Was just about to ask haha

[balmy forum]

I Knew it!

[remote nacelle]

oo i dont know if they can be multi

[balmy forum]

I think xenon said they could

[runic adder]

lowpass it up to 8k, there's some fizz at the top

but yeah should be fine

[remote nacelle]

it says they can

[formal hedge]

That sounds way better

[remote nacelle]

are you willing to send the stems?

[formal hedge]

Yeah

[remote nacelle]

cool

[balmy forum]

Just about to ask that too

[formal hedge]

Here ya go

@balmy forum @runic adder

[remote nacelle]

sick

thanks

[runic adder]

pluh

[remote nacelle]

drums?

[formal hedge]

Oh my bad

[remote nacelle]

lol

this is the best i could do @formal hedge

[vale vapor]

are you only single tracking your guitar?

[vale vapor]

ok yeah that's your problem

you need to be double tracking your guitar dude

that and multirouting the kit

[balmy forum]

spiritbox and blessthefall had a child

[balmy forum]

@vale vapor would be proud of this rise

[vale vapor]

thats pretty sick ngl

[balmy forum]

full song

[remote nacelle]

needs more cowbell

[balmy forum]

LOL

[remote nacelle]

actually sounds sick tho i love that funk groove in the verse and pre breakdown

[balmy forum]

Ty

It’s very circle with me inspired

[remote nacelle]

clealy haha

[balmy forum]

Ey I just relised the smiling friends pfp

HOW DO I LOOK YELLOW MAN

[remote nacelle]

HOW DO I LOOK YELOW MAN

[balmy forum]

HAHAHA

[remote nacelle]

LOL

[sullen vector]

hello people, just wondering if yall think this mix sounds ok, and if anybody has any thoughts on anything else about these two things im workin on, any advice is appreciated fr 🙏

[balmy forum]

where is the line between music and noise

[balmy forum]

oo i like it those drums could use a little more processing

turning the room down

[tribal orbit]

trying something with this mix. Guitars are just placeholders (waiting on my new guitarist)

Since we're going with a more nu metal style, it felt appropriate to do some weird mid focused screams

def gonna re-record teh screams at some point to fix the timing

[versed remnant]

The second one is the one i was talking about in dms, the orher is another song i wanna revisit @tribal orbit

[tribal orbit]

very of mice and men

[tepid adder]

woahhh i like that a lot!

[vale vapor]

my first advice would be swapping the midi for real guitar, i always say this but its true, midi guitar sounds so robotic

The mix is good, snare could use some more processing?

the drums in general sound kinda raw

[sullen vector]

oh it is real guitar, i just recorded it in half speed and then sped it up because i kinda liked the robotic sound 😭

[vale vapor]

oh 😭

i much prefer it at regular speed

it sounds more human

and it sets a more realistic standard

[sullen vector]

bet sounds good, ill take a look at what i got goin on

[sullen vector]

true true, i usually dont do the half speed thing but i just liked how it sounded in this instance lmao

[vale vapor]

gotcha

[balmy forum]

@vale vapor how is this mix? i glued the guitar and drums together for the first time and i dont know if it works well

[vale vapor]

its really similar to bless the fall lol

[balmy forum]

Yeah it’s the lead

[vale vapor]

i would change it, its too close

its like note for note lol

[vale vapor]

mix wise the drums sound like theyre clipping, especially the kick and the overheads

guitars are kinda dark

drums im assuming are not multirouted still

[balmy forum]

Yeah they are

I’m just not good at mixing lol

[vale vapor]

oh lol

if you want, before next saturday you can send me the stems, and when we call i can go over exactly how i'd mix it and why

[balmy forum]

Oh sick that sounds good

[balmy forum]

Just boost the High end or is there more to it

[balmy forum]

I think I have decapitator on them

[vale vapor]

I tend to stay away from clipping on drums

especially drum bus

it destroys the transients

it can work sometimes for a snare but you need to compensate by giving it more transient after the clip

[balmy forum]

Oh ok

[vale vapor]

(by clipping in this instance i mean a distortion/hard clip/soft clip plugin like decap)

[balmy forum]

I’ll fix that now

[balmy forum]

i was also using rbass

[vale vapor]

whats that

[balmy forum]

rbass?

a popular audio plugin by Waves that enhances bass by generating subtle, higher-frequency harmonics, creating the perception of deeper, richer low-end even on small speakers that can't reproduce deep bass frequencies physically, making tracks fuller and clearer

[vale vapor]

lol the ai overview

[balmy forum]

lol

[vale vapor]

enhances bass by adding high harmonics that makes the low end deeper?

the ai overview does not understand this plugin

LOL

[balmy forum]

LOL

[vale vapor]

idrk the plugin well enough to say

[balmy forum]

i think its just an eq pretty much

[vale vapor]

that is not what an eq does

looks like a saturator to me

[balmy forum]

ok i just checked, my kick was clipping

my OH are fine

[balmy forum]

this better?

also i had it at the wrong sample rate before do that's probably a reason it sounds like crap

[balmy forum]

@vale vapor made some tweaks, here is what i did

[tender oak]

Rbass is a bass centric compressor / saturator from waves. It's fucking goated imho. I've used it in a few mixes of mine and it simply makes bass present and buttery.

You can chose a frequency and it does some magic with mix compression / saturation / eq at that frequency. I think it might use upward compression too which I know is present in rvox. There's deeper breakdowns online.

[vale vapor]

Ahh gotcha

I get a similar effect by putting an LA2A after my bass amp

[tender oak]

Oh yeah for sure. The la2a is a peak compressor for mostly anything you're looking for silk on

I call it Mr. Smooth. Just makes shit sound nice.

[vale vapor]

Exactly

no more lumpy bass performances

[vale vapor]

drums sound kinda weird but i cant put my finger on it, wanna send me stems?

[runic adder]

i limit tf out of my sub bass channel 💀

helps get rid of the lumpy performance lol

[vale vapor]

i never actually use a sub layered with my bass

i think it kinda sounds weird, especially if the bass wavers in tune you can get some weird beating fx

[runic adder]

i don't do that either

i just split the bass "grit" and "sub" and on the sub channel pump it into pro-l and crank it up by like 19 db lmfao

gets rid of the inconsistencies better than a standard compressor imo

[vale vapor]

oh lol

i just use parallax 9 times out of 10

[balmy forum]

yep!

[balmy forum]

i use Sam Guianas honeycomb overdrive into parallax https://www.canvasaudio.net/plugins/honeycomb-bass-od

its really good

[runic adder]

I use parallax on the top end

Fun fact, apparently, ndsp darkglass will hi-pass the bass until 80?

When I don’t use it all of the sub information is much more defined, though that might just be from removing the extra low end boot

Sometimes if I pop darkglass into parallax on the grit channel it makes the grit sound more slippery in a cool way

[balmy igloo]

freddy fazbear type beat

[runic adder]

really don't hear freddy fazbear but this is cool

[balmy igloo]

Thank you

[mighty terrace]

I know the playing needs a tidy up. This is like Invent Animate from wish but in drop A#

[balmy igloo]

This is awesome. Good job 😎

[mighty terrace]

I’m p happy with the riff as a first recording of it

I was choosing tunings of like what do I choozd

It was Drop A or A# I still got stock strings on this so it doesn’t hold lower than G# well

(Maybe I’m just an idiot idk)

[tepid adder]

@tough creek @hollow tulip @mossy ore here's one of my fully finished songs from Ashes of Sakura called Spiral Complex (it's about silly straws btw)

When I say finished I mean like

I've written all of the parts

Not produced obviously LMAO

[tough creek]

Bro that clean tone is fucking 🔥

i wish my shit sounded that good, but alas im currently stuck with an orange amp

[tepid adder]

LOL thank you

[hollow tulip]

Gah damn

So far I like it, stoked to hear the fully produced thing

[tepid adder]

Thanks :D

[hollow tulip]

Kinda reminds me of Ascendancy/In Waves era Trivium with a mix of J-rock chords

And yeah I like the clean guitars very much

[tepid adder]

Oh interesting, where did the Trivium vibes come through? I wasn't directly inspired by Trivium which is why I'm asking lol

I love trivium btw

[hollow tulip]

I think it's the fast palm mutes with the single notes in between that kinda remind me of Ascendancy

i had this cool idea for a riff so i made a short fl studio project to immortalize it before i forget (it's played by virtual instruments bc i can't play)
very abrb inspired if you couldn't tell by the filename and riff

also tried to replicate the slight dirty edge of 2000s metalcore/deathcore mixing

[tepid adder]

Ohh like this sorta thing?

[tepid adder]

Yo that's sick as hell

[tough creek]

I see another fellow padawan of the fast palm mute technique of the old school metalcore days

I might be shit at guitar but that technique is one of my favs whenever i play any song

Especially in some old school rock like Led Zeppelin

[hollow tulip]

Late reply but yes, like that

[tepid adder]

all good lol

[tribal orbit]

I fear... I may have cooked (my first non metal piece in a hot minute lmao)

it's also like not mxied at all

just midi instruments slapped onto the notes

[balmy igloo]

This is cool. Could def hear this in a JRPG battle theme.

[tepid adder]

Wait that's sick as hell

[tribal orbit]

lmao tyty. Got challenged to write a MH battle theme for lunagaron. I think it works, but I rarely ever write orchestral stuff

[tribal orbit]

lol ye thats pretty much what that is

[round saffron]

IDK ANYMORE TF IS THIS

[round saffron]

Devin Townsend Vibes

[eager sphinx]

am i cooking or did i burn the kitchen

[round saffron]

Honestly Cookin

[eager sphinx]

:D

[round saffron]

If Anyone Oberfired It's me

KFC ASS TONE

[versed remnant]

i have been wanting to cover infant annihilator for forever

i need advice on the current state of my mix por favor

[versed remnant]

got a bunch more done

[halcyon holly]

Perfect drums by naughtyseal are the exact drums used on that album btw

just fyi

[versed remnant]

...

one second

this is

good information

to have

This is pre post production and vocals

[kind trail]

Did a little throwback cover from one of the best metal albums of 2016 (arguably of the modern era)

Gotta do the misc production work, some guitar editing, and throw on vocals

but yeah

@runic adder wdyt?

[kind trail]

I'll probably do 91367 too

[runic adder]

sounds good

some parts i think the guitars might be a bit loud? but i think its solid otherwise

[versed remnant]

A bit of post production

Hey i was listening to that

[balmy forum]

that mix is strange

the guitars are way to loud

[versed remnant]

can someone give me a good video on how to mix deathcore vocals im so ass at it

[vale vapor]

Compress in stages

With different compressors

[balmy igloo]

watched a crappy alien abduction movie over the weekend

[runic adder]

Last time I did it I went
Compress > limiter> saturate > saturate some more > EQ > reverb > delay

Also why’s only half the vocals there 😭

Do you record highs and lows separately?

[versed remnant]

TYSM

[versed remnant]

I'm learning hwo to safely do goblin highs

i was trying to track them and i killed my throat a little bit

[runic adder]

Real

[versed remnant]

so i need to learn how to do them properly first

i'm only good at lows </3

[runic adder]

You’ll get it in time

I’m not much of a vocal coach I couldn’t help ya there but it’ll happen, trust

Now I want to another infant annihilator cover…

[versed remnant]

Dew it

Do cuntcrusher twin

Wait no flayed and consumed

Thats my favorite on that album u should cover that

[runic adder]

I was lowk thinking decapitation fornication or soil the stillborn

[finite coral]

busted ass buster kit bruh

[runic adder]

There’s no instrumental for Ov Sacrament and Sincest so that’s off the table, my favorite one unfortunately

[runic adder]

Almost has like those 00s-10s nu/electronic metal vibes

Idk smthing about it reminded me of like blue stahli or celldweller

[finite coral]

guitar feels lacking idk what to do with it ive changed the amp like 20 times

the ir is in triple digits

[runic adder]

Guitar sounds fine lowk

You could scoop it a little more maybe?

I think it’s fine tho

[reef dawn]

what do we think

[runic adder]

Guitars could come down, they’re louder than the drums

Snare needs more compression

Riffs and song are cool though

At that breakdown at 1:40 the kick sounds a little off sync with the guitar trem part, try putting the kicks in triplets instead of straight?

[balmy igloo]

Not sure about deathcore mixing but the vocal chain I've been trying out is; EQ, Compression, EQ, De-esser, Multiband compression, Saturation, Delay, Reverb, and then a Limiter.

Return tracks for Delay and Reverb. Little bit of Autotune as well

[runic adder]

Hm, interesting

[vale vapor]

Always send your delays and verbs to a send

Verb bus and a delay bus

Every time

[runic adder]

Yeah idk why I put the limiter at the start, putting it at the end seems a lot more reasonable lol

[balmy igloo]

Yeah

[runic adder]

When it comes to deathcore lowk saturation is basically autotune lol

So mostly similar approaches

[balmy igloo]

I guess yeah. Don't know much about deathcore but we're all on the same journey.

[vale vapor]

I limit sometimes

sometimes i just put a compressor on the entire vocal bus

Acting as a limiter

[runic adder]

Yeah typically I need a limiter just because of the difference between my highs and lows

Might start recording them on separate tracks

Since I typically go main, sub, and dub

But usually a comp isn’t enough alone to balance it

Unless I’m doing it wrong

[vale vapor]

You should def be using multiple compressors

I work with some very versatile vocalists who do all types of screams on one track

And usually multiple compressors always balances it perfectly

Reacomp on aggressive vocal preset with auto makeup gain turned on and limit output checked

JST gain reduction for slamming it and a little saturation

Then EQ

Then usually a 1176 or LA2A (3 to 6db gr)

Then de ess

Then another compressor on the entire vocal bus to smooth all the tracks together

Sometimes a brickwall limiter

Just realimit on default settings

[runic adder]

I see

I typically put the vocals straight into a 76 and then two saturators

Well typically into one but the second one I did recently and I like the sound

[vale vapor]

Honestly i dont saturate my vocals much

Most saturation i do is just the natural saturation that JST Gr adds

If i want a saturated vocal it won't be a main take and I'll literally just send it through a guitar amp

[versed remnant]

I

can make you one

and we can do it together

i can do instrumentals for you

however

i'd need a few weeks to learn the parts

[runic adder]

i mean yeah if you want to im down

though programming in all the pinch harmonics and slide noises is gonna be a bitch, im warning ya

[balmy forum]

you dont

[versed remnant]

This

Is fair

[versed remnant]

I’d play it

Like actually learn the oarts

I played my cover of three bastards

[runic adder]

i mean hey if you can pull off the sweeps then go for it

[versed remnant]

Granted not in one take at all

I was definitely recording bar by bar

[runic adder]

sounded like midi guitar lowk, mb

[versed remnant]

Bc i can NOT cleanly transition

[versed remnant]

It’s all clipped tg

I’m not THAT good at my instrument

[runic adder]

fair

[versed remnant]

Just good enough to play it in parts

LMAO

[runic adder]

i mean most of Ov Sacrament is lowk not difficult

the riffs arent bad, it's just those crazy sweeps that are the killer

[versed remnant]

Yeahh

[tender oak]

We sharing screaming vocal chains? Feeling cute, might mix later?
I do EQ > DeEss (cleaning up signal at beginning) > JST Gain Reduction Deluxe > Rvox > Magma Stress Box (3 combo compression with their own little touches on the sound, all gain staged as to not overblow the sound) > Second EQ to SLIGHTLY boost some high end lost in compression for clarity > Magma Lil Tube for light tube saturation > Tape Saturation > L2 limiter. I also have an 1176 on a bus parallel compressing everything together. Shit sounds nice. I use a similar chain for cleans but swap out the magma for an LA2A. I like the LA2A smoothness on cleans.

[wicked berry]

my normal one is kinda similar to that

but i was lazy today and used a mantra preset i made

it holds up pretty well

[vale vapor]

Very similar to mine! Mine is a simplified version of that

ReaComp on aggr vocal preset, auto makeup gain, limiting checked
JST Gain Reduction
EQ to clean everything up
1176 or LA2A
De ess

For cleans, swap JST GR with Finality Advanced (less saturation)

Then final 1176 and sometimes brickwall limiter on the whole vocal bus

Also send main vox to verb and delay bus

Also, pretty much every time i EQ a vocal, I'm using a dynamic EQ

The voice is so incredibly dynamic, a static EQ doesn't always help when trying to tame it

[tender oak]

I've been looking into dynamic EQs myself lately. ProQ is expensive lmao. Any good cheaper / free ones you would reccomend?

[vale vapor]

TDR nova all the way

some here swear by ZL EQ but it doesn't fit my workflow

Tdr is soooo smooth

[tender oak]

I will absolutely check that out

[runic adder]

since we sharing specifics, on my last mix I went:
gate (headphones dont have the best Isolation and you can hear the click in some takes 😔
slam tf out of it with a 76
brickwall limitar (no clue why I put it up front lowk)
decapitator for saturation and some high/low cuts
devil-loc for more saturation
EQ
then verb and delay

absolutely nuked any kind of dynamic range on these vocals

[vale vapor]

LOL

[tender oak]

The exact chain I posted above was used in this track.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-GD112ZU_H8?feature=share

[balmy forum]

Yummy

Should you put limiters on vocals??

I thought it was just a mastering thing

I’m stupid I know lol

[tender oak]

Nawh, not stupid at all. There's cases where it can be beneficial. I find that having a limiter/maximizer on my vocals at the end of the chain specifically helps them sit more up front and clear in the mix. Not everyone does. I use the waves L2 maximizer. Basically just have it at the end lightly touching the vocals by a few db. The idea is to make them slightly louder without crushing the tone and clarity you got with your processing chain so they sit more clear without you actually having to turn them up in the mix themselves. It's like a balanced boost if done right. Also very useful at the end of your mastering chain. Again just hugging the song by a few db to get that pump and loudness without crushing or distorting anything. Limiters can be used effectively all over a mix honestly.

[balmy forum]

Oh cool

Thanks I had no idea

[balmy forum]

put up some acoustic paneling recently and put a lamp on my pc, very nice

It looks fancy but it’s kinda just an interface, monitors and an old tv

[finite coral]

are drums too loud im tweaking

kick

[finite coral]

odeholm moment

sounds neat

[cerulean storm]

Something new I started working on

[burnt musk]

Kinda did this... What kind of genre is this dunno

[cerulean storm]

https://open.spotify.com/album/4FRA3Dh3LJpk4OcbdklX4C?si=37c8df754f224b5c

Just relseased my second album. Atmospheric ambient fused with black/melodeath

I'm always open to what anyone has to say🙂

[versed remnant]

Thoughts?

@tribal orbit

[balmy igloo]

Sounds good bro. Bass might be a bit loud.

[lost dew]

https://open.spotify.com/album/1pAOZz0toYdCdz5tNaXVI5?si=u2pX2GeWS4iC7U-lQ2YpIA

[fathom jewel]

rohan bhai 🙏

[fringe geode]

@vale vapor

I messed with the mix a little bit.

[lost dew]

Bolo

[balmy forum]

You have been mixing this song for so long!

Sounds really good

[fringe geode]

Lol. I wouldn't say that. I like coming back to projects when I learn new things as a way to try out what I've learned.

And thats the point of the ones marked Break the Glass. They're meant to be one offs I can do just to test out a quick riff for songwriting purposes, or to test new mixing skills I've learned that I can eventually come back to when I've learned more. Sometimes both.

[balmy forum]

Ahhhhh good idea

Also I figured out how to separate route my drums, thanks for the help with that btw

[fringe geode]

Np. It's a pain in the ass so I saved it as a template so I didn't have to do it again lol.

[balmy forum]

This is what I ended up with

[balmy forum]

Same haha

[fringe geode]

There was only ever one Break the Glass that was developed into a full song.

[balmy forum]

Oh!

[fringe geode]

Sonic style Pop Punk vibes. I like it.

[balmy forum]

Ty

[fringe geode]

@balmy forum

This is the one that became its own song.

[balmy forum]

Oo I like so far

[fringe geode]

I'm still not entirely happy with it but at some point you just kinda have to move on and work on new songs that you'll learn more from.

[tender oak]

That bass tone is dirty and I love it.

[fringe geode]

It was my attempt to replicate Rabea's bass tone.

It eventually gave me the idea in my Endless Possibilities cover to combine Parallax's low end with the mids and highs of Darkglass.

[summer marsh]

Wondering if this sounds very ultrakill esc, and maybe some adjustments. (im trying to strictly use soundfonts) And Yes the pitching needs to be fixed

[vale vapor]

this is fire

kick is a little oversaturated for my taste but the mix is fire

snare sounds awesome

[fringe geode]

Thanks! Most of the tweaks were just adjusting levels. I did almost no changes to the processing minus tweaking da bass just a wee bit but that's it

[hollow sorrel]

My buddy mixed this shit and I think it's the best sounding material I've ever been on

[fringe geode]

Idk what Ultrakill is but I do know it sounds fire.

[runic adder]

I’d say so, yeah

Sounds sick

[balmy forum]

God damn! That’s heavy, I like it alot

[hollow sorrel]

Thank you 🙏

I did the guitar and bass. Also wrote a couple lines of lyrics

Old track but this is something I did in a somewhat sludgier vein

@balmy forum also did some art for the 87angst band

[balmy forum]

Oh damn! I love it, very spiritbox vibes

what do you think of this?

[hollow sorrel]

Thank you! :DDDD

[hollow sorrel]

Listening now :3

[hollow sorrel]

Ok wow this is awesome. Not usually a fan of happier sounding riffs but everything on this is super tight. The mix is good too 🙂

Groovy drums too

[balmy forum]

Thanks!

[hollow sorrel]

You are very welcome! 🙂

[lost dew]

https://youtube.com/shorts/OrzI-Z_XARc

[kind blaze]

just made another song. tell me what yall think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9TOYzZeyKQ

[hollow sorrel]

@balmy forum

[balmy forum]

ill listen in a sec

[balmy forum]

now this is sick

snare could use a bit more mid

and drums could come up a bit

[hollow sorrel]

I will send the updated version once my buddy does vocals, it's not final

[balmy forum]

oh ok

what drums do you use

[hollow sorrel]

Oh that was him. No idea. I did the guitars and bass. He mixed it, did the drums, and he also did some guitar too

[balmy forum]

Ahhhhh

[hollow sorrel]

Ok I fucking dig this

This is awesome

What tuning?

[balmy forum]

maybe turn the rooms up a bit?

[kind trail]

D A D G Bb F Ab

Yeah I know, it's a fucking weird tuning

It's basically Drop D1 mixed with a Gmin7b9 chord as the tuning

[hollow sorrel]

That's awesome

I love weird tunings

[kind trail]

The Gmin7b9 is great for Jazz stuff

[hollow sorrel]

This was AEBF#C#G#

[hollow sorrel]

This was BF#BF#BFF#B

[kind trail]

Where as the stupidly low Drop D is great for riffing and djent

[hollow sorrel]

And this was G#F#BF#BFF#B

[hollow sorrel]

Indeed

[kind trail]

I'm actually thinking of adapting this tuning to a 9 string later

[hollow sorrel]

Please do!

[kind trail]

Add a low A below the D, and a high D (or Eb) above the Ab

All the range I'd ever need

[kind trail]

I can see you're a huge sludge fan

[hollow sorrel]

Indeed 🤣

[kind trail]

I would, personally, lower the bass a bit and let the guitars shine more, but also I'm pretty sure that might just be the sound of the genre too

So maybe nott

But consider using a multiband compressor on the bass so the low end rumble doesn't flub all over the fucking place

[hollow sorrel]

It's intentional. Bass full octave down, and we wanted it to feel like that 🤣

[kind trail]

I see

well I mean, in that case do whatever

[hollow sorrel]

I do think it's a little floppier on The Ground Floor though so I will bring it up with him

Gundesvermin has less flub

However Gundesvermin was higher

[kind trail]

Cool cool

[hollow sorrel]

B-1 instead of G#-1

It also partially has to do with me using a 200 gauge on a 34" bass since I don't have anything longer

[kind trail]

Oh my goodness it just occurred to me, you're not tuning to normal G#, it's the low 5-string bass G#

On the Guitar

I thought it was weird for a second

Ok yeah

That explains alot

[hollow sorrel]

Yeah 🙂

G#0

Bass full octave down. No pitch shifting on my end

My buddy shifted his 8 down from F# to that low G# for his parts

[kind trail]

Just the way God intended 🙌

[hollow sorrel]

I'm not really a fan of same octave bass for my own music so I always go octave down when I can

[kind trail]

Same

[hollow sorrel]

I thought B-1 was my limit until he wanted me down in G# 🤣

Overtones are wild things

[kind trail]

I use Umansky Bass so I'm stuck with a low C0 as my limit

Unless I do pitch shift shenanigans

[hollow sorrel]

I just play my own instruments. I used the same bass setup for Gundesvermin and The Ground Floor but the guitars were different on my end

These two for both

[kind trail]

I'm gonna be honest, you should consider getting a 37" for the bass

It would get you so much more clarity

[hollow sorrel]

For Gundesvermin, I used a Digitech Whammy Ricochet on the +2 octaves momentarily, then a Peper's Dirty Tree, and that went into my Line 6 POD 2.0, Rectified setting, 0 bass, maxed mids, treble not far behind, maxed presence, some compression going on the POD, and one of the stock 4x12s

For The Ground Floor I used actual miced amps. No pedals, 1988 Ampeg SS-140C, maxed gain, 0 bass, mids almost maxed, treble maxed. Combo EVM 12L miced with a Shure SM57 and then I also had it going into my 1973 Sound City 6x10 which i miced with a cheap kick drum mic. Those when into my 1979 Sunn Alpha Six mixer and then my interface and phone

Bass for both was my Line 6 Bass POD XT, Sabotage preset, bass boosted, low mids scooped a bit, high mids and treble maxed. Some compression running. I think I used the Stadium cab model (based on a Sunn SPL8028 1x12/1x18) and I had clean DI blended in

[hollow sorrel]

I just like the weight it adds to the mix tbh. I wanted a Lignum 42" Sub Octave bass but I don't have that kind of money 😭

[kind trail]

Damn

[hollow sorrel]

My nicest bass is a Warwick Thumb NT5 I paid just over $2,500 for

[kind trail]

I'm gonna be honest

I didn't even know they made basses that long 😂

[hollow sorrel]

Lignum does. Kalium does the 40" Quake bass

I know another company that goes longer but I forgot their name

They're Australian

[granite mist]

im cookin something here

[runic adder]

Kalium pisses me off

[kind trail]

Lmao still haven't gotten strings have you?

[runic adder]

Gotta send them another email

[hollow sorrel]

Yeah I've never bought anything from them haha

[runic adder]

Fuckers took my money and ran

[kind trail]

How long has it been? 3 months?

Lmao

[runic adder]

One

[hollow sorrel]

It's not even "them". It's just one guy. That's why everything takes so long

[kind trail]

Ah

[runic adder]

It’s one guy

[hollow sorrel]

There used to be two but the other guy left

[runic adder]

That’s hilarious

[hollow sorrel]

Yeah. Skip Fantry. Just him

[kind trail]

Also doesn't he make the string after the order is placed

So it's not like he stores and ships a stock

[runic adder]

Unfortunately there’s nowhere else I can get my heavy gauge bass strings so I just have to suck it ig

[hollow sorrel]

He's not a bad dude. He's fucking working his ass off. One man company

😭

[hollow sorrel]

Newtone strings does up to a 200. Also cheaper. But they're in the UK

That's what I use

[runic adder]

Yeah I’m not paying for international shipping 😭

God forbid a man wants to play drop G on a standard scale bass

[hollow sorrel]

It was only $55 after shipping for mine but that was pre-tariffs

[hollow sorrel]

That's not even bad. Try Rotosound Drop Zone Plus. 175s

[kind trail]

So it's what, like $600 now?

[hollow sorrel]

Probably 🤣

[runic adder]

Nowhere around me apparently

[hollow sorrel]

Buy them online. Won't find them in most stores

[runic adder]

Where online? Their site redirects to other shops

Oh hey a use for stringsandbeyond for the first time in years

No 5th string lol

Gonna have to buy one separately ig

[hollow sorrel]

Ah sorry. For some reason I thought you were on a 4 😭

[fathom jewel]

holy shit it has been years since I last heard audio from you, welcome back

[runic adder]

All good lol

130 on a 35” doesn’t sound that good for G so I gotta suffer w kalium ig

[hollow sorrel]

I use about that on a 34" Warwick for F# 🤣. Surprisingly doesn't sound bad

[runic adder]

Interesting

Might have to play around with that then

[granite mist]

thanks, did i ever send the single my band dropped last year?

that was probably the last thing i did lol

[meager sandal]

Just finished recording this track, any feedback or recommendations?

[hollow sorrel]

@runic adder this is how F# sounds on the Warwick. These were a couple isolated raw bass tracks from my band, no post processing

All fingerstyle

[hollow sorrel]

You do have to adjust your technique and instrument setup wise

[runic adder]

iinstrument I get, how technique?

is it like if I hit the string too hard itll fly out of tune

[hollow sorrel]

You have to have less force so the strings aren't constantly swept out of tune. I strike more through the strings than other them personally. I fret lighter too

[runic adder]

ah yeah

I play hard so that's gonna be quite annoying

[vale vapor]

Yeah give me thick strings and hard af pick attack

[hollow sorrel]

Downward force makes them stay in tune more than like striking across them with something like a pick. I just tap straight into them partially with my skin and partially with my fingernails

All fingerstyle

That's probably the only reason it stays in tune tbh 🤣

[runic adder]

fair lol

yeah atp i need thick strings, even on my guitars I pick hard af

so on bass there is no way ts is staying in tune 😭

[vale vapor]

Hard pick attack works best in a mix

[hollow sorrel]

I usually go as light as possible to keep things snappy sounding. That's just me. All personal preference

[vale vapor]

Softer stuff can work but hard attack is just easier to work with

[hollow sorrel]

I mean considering these were fingerstyle I still hit pretty hard. I don't like using a pick for bass. Shattered was probably the one I hit the hardest

Warwicks also have crazy tight B strings for being 34" for some reason

[balmy forum]

lol i have problems with that in fucking standard letalone drop f#

[hollow sorrel]

I'm shocked I can stay in tune with how hard I use my picking hand 😭

I've adopted the Al Cisneros 3 finger strike for some droning notes

[balmy forum]

lol

same here

[hollow sorrel]

I do some Ryan Martinie and Les Claypool shit sprinkled in. Sometimes flamenco style strums. Ghost note chucks. I did tapping on one song. And I do the Mudvayne striked octave thing a ton

[balmy forum]

you see thats way to simple, with my picking style i hit the string with a pick

so complex

i know

[hollow sorrel]

I try not to wank off on bass too much but these tracks had some stuff peppered in just to keep things interesting.

[balmy forum]

in what the fuck-

are you Australian?

[hollow sorrel]

One technique I haven't been able to fit in a song yet is this thing I do where I strike through the strings with two fingers and then come back up with my fingernail essentially doubling the speed I'm playing. Keeps up with trem picking but this band doesn't have much of that at all

[balmy forum]

fucking typing is hard

[hollow sorrel]

Nah. My buddy is 😭

[balmy forum]

oh cool

[balmy forum]

dude i dont even know what that means im the most basic guitarist out there lol

[hollow sorrel]

I've been playing since I was 12 so almost 9 years. I'm not amazing but I've picked up some stuff along the way 😭

[balmy forum]

lol

i started when i was 10 i belive? but im only 13 so its not that long

english is hard

also does anyone know what sdc and ldc are

[finite coral]

before i upload to youtube, is there something i should fix in the mix?

i do want to re record a few guitar takes cuz i dont like them

[finite coral]

i know people who played for almost 20 years and they still splice guitars like crazy

and cant mix for shit

im not playing anything crazy advanced but i started 6 months ago

[finite coral]

if youre ognna splice atleast do multiple takes instead of copy pasting 💀

[tribal orbit]

I really do like it (no headphonse rn so not about the mix). But the writing is clean

Trying to think what it reminds me of but it's hype

[hollow sorrel]

I don't splice anything. I mean I do multiple takes per song but that's usually to be expected. Sometimes I do one take all the way through but not for 87angst so far haha

[finite coral]

sometimes i splice just to make sure its on tempo sometimes i would be a little late for a chug or just re record

if my guitar is not in my hands and i notice it being off i will cut it and try to fix it that way but if i have it in my hands ill just re record 😭

[hollow sorrel]

Tracked vocals last night. How's my buddy's mix? Did my best Jens Kidman impression

[cerulean storm]

Minor updates on my latest project

[vale vapor]

mix is super mid scooped, mostly the drums

the whole mix needs more mids imo

the mix is very harsh in the 3k range

[vale vapor]

what on your master bus?

everything sounds like it's being pushed into a limiter pretty hard

[cerulean storm]

Yeah, I've put limiters on pretty much everything to get them louder without cutting. It's probably the drums, since for some reason they're low as hell. So I had to boost them the most

[vale vapor]

Make sure no tracks are clipping

Then only limit if you absolutely need to

I would limit a tiny bit in stages

Have each limiter just barely shave off the peaks

Don't smash stuff into one limiter all at once

[cerulean storm]

Yeah, that's what I've done too. Should probably tweak the drums a bit more though, thanks for the advice🙂

[vale vapor]

Np

[waxen grotto]

been listening to a bunch of silent planet lately, and then i made this track. if possible i would like some feedback on it
the guitars are :vst guitar for the main sound, then like 4 synth layers and 1 layer of real guitar panned left and right
drums are also a vst but with electronic drums under it

[hollow tulip]

pretty nice, guitars sound great and djenty. pretty mick gordon-ish. the slow down at 1:28 goes hard
i suggest doing some automation on the synths/master bus during transitions (like slowly increasing the wet reverb on the master and slowly narrowing the stereo image during the buildup, then brief total silence before returning everything back to normal when the guitars kick in) so that they don't sound too flat
you should also raise the guitar, bass, and cymbals volume slightly as they sound a bit quiet compared to the kick and snare (imo). otherwise pretty nice 👍

a little something i made on fl studio. had to write it down before i forgot

[fringe geode]

An old project I forgot about.

I used a combo of the Soldano SLO-100 and Plini's Friedman BE100 to get the guitar tone.

I used two guitars as well. The beginning was using a LTD SN-200 and the heavy part was using a modded 02 Strat with Deathbuckers.

[lost dew]

https://open.spotify.com/album/1FtLJe9fnDca7Y47OyBRCn?si=2RaBfqYuTcej9F_-95Z7aw

[vale vapor]

idk about the ai generated art man

[loud blaze]

Something im cooking up for my piano focused solo project

[vale vapor]

if you're looking for feedback, i think you should learn your instrument before trying to distribute music on spotify

[vale vapor]

this is pretty cool

its a bit repetitive in some spots

and in a few parts i think it's clipping

Also not too sure about the slamming the keys part near the end lol

[wind crater]

Tell me what ya’ll think of this demo of a song called False Memory Syndrome that my friend and I are working on:

https://untitled.stream/library/track/lcLy8O4Sh5AOafe7819mk

[balmy forum]

god damn

harsh

OH its ai

[vale vapor]

the image is ai

But no, his song is just him strumming the guitar randomly

I think he should actually sit down and learn to play before he tries to upload to spotify

[balmy forum]

ahhh

makes sense

[balmy forum]

sounds like me trying to play jazz

[inland anchor]

Another demo that probably never will be finished

[inland anchor]

That's sick,kinda reminded me of one japanese band but I can't remember the name

[tender oak]

Oh that's fun. Definitely finish that.

[inland anchor]

I'll try but I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to come up with more riffs and lyrics for it
I have a smaller vox demo too but I dont really like it

[tender oak]

https://tenor.com/view/jayz-nodding-jamming-gif-4929586

Had me like

[inland anchor]

I'm not great with vox lol

[tender oak]

I'd say sleep on it a bit and then keep working on it, definitely got energy to it.

[inland anchor]

I'll give it a try
I have so many unfinished demos that I like

[loud blaze]

By design to be repetitive, leaving it open that way for a guitarist friend of mine to write thall over it

[loud blaze]

Its a rhythmic template for the guitarist who is featuring to follow

[vale vapor]

ah gotcha

thall is definitely not my area of expertise so lol

[inland anchor]

Some more unfinished songs lol

[reef dawn]

holy shit

what the archspire

[fathom jewel]

yessir

[fathom jewel]

you can use the andy sneap multiband trick to reduce the mud in the guitar chugs and increase a little bit of high end for pick attack

[vale vapor]

I do this all the time, its the method

[inland anchor]

I'm not really good with mixing and probably not gonna be finishing this song anyways

Some older stuff that we never finished cause I couldn't find the second vocalist to do the male parts lol

[inland anchor]

That's some fire stuff✨

[cerulean storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvSV5mPq4rg

Made a new guitar cover of one of my favorite songs ever :3

Haven't used my 6-string in a long time

[vale vapor]

Bevin Baldhead

[inland anchor]

I do like em actually haha
Some of my stuff is Inspired by Archspire

[tender oak]

The baldness adds to the sound. I haven't figured out how yet, but I know it's true.

Fun fact about Devin, he uses Magma plugins from waves like the channel strip and their compressor. For anyone looking for part of his sound. Magma saturation helps a lot.

[vale vapor]

I never really got into devin townsend

Everything I've heard so far has been kinda eh

Just very not my thing

[tender oak]

I wouldn't call myself a massive fan, but deadhead, Kingdom, and Spirits Will Collide are solid tracks. Particularly Deadhead live at Royal Albert Hall. The recording on youtube is magic, I can only imagine what being there was like. Devin has a very "wall of sound" approach to writing and producing music and it shines in that specific track in that specific performance so fucking well. And his voice tickles my ears, dude's got serious pipes and his toned yell screams are gnarly.

I highly (highly) reccomend checking out that performance if you havent already. Shit ima go listen to it now. Half way through he rips the crowd for not being able to clap on time hahaha

Oh man the tone in this is heavenly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrDM6V08wcE

[vale vapor]

i think i pintpointed why im not the biggest fan

i can appreciate the sound but musically it's very like

dad rock?

it's like oldhead music

super talented guy

[tender oak]

Yeah not for everyone, but I'm in my 30s and have a soft spot for tons of dad rock lmaoo

[vale vapor]

haha

i turn 20 this year so i end up on the gen z side of things

[tender oak]

Plus, that voice. I wish I could tone scream like that

[vale vapor]

yeah he's got crazy tone on him

would he fall under prog?

the long songs and such

[tender oak]

I would say definitely in the prog realm

[vale vapor]

ah yeah

the only prog i really listen to is periphery on occasion

[tender oak]

I also like Strapping Young Lad. Way heavier.

[vale vapor]

i appreciate that this is in drop c though LOL

best tuning of all time

[tender oak]

drop c will forever be goated

[vale vapor]

exactly

[normal hemlock]

SYL is fire

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=LN8SKd5WNDQ&si=2Ggc-nZsBQWKjdRp

peak

[hollow tulip]

update

[inland anchor]

Another unfinished demo lol
Older one
Found it while goin through my demos folder

[inland anchor]

Based

[lost dew]

https://open.spotify.com/track/0PIt59fv0ZP1P88AB8rAIs?si=BmwskDeYQ-SifKwq87WUjQ