16-04-2015, 10:00 PM
(02-04-2015, 01:39 AM)dcp10200 Wrote: Nice mix but I am not a big fan of the brickwall mastering, it really makes the mix sound softer in my opinion, the power is only there when your volume is loud and as soon as you turn it down it kills the impact of the mix. Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets, and pretty well all the great thrash of yesteryear sound so brutal and punchy because they didn't use as much compression as records these days. I would really cut back on the compression and limiting and really look more into saturation and soft clipping to achieve the sound you're looking for.
Tanks for the reply, dcp10200!
I'm not a great fan of squeezing tracks but I couldn't resist myself to just slam it all the way. I felt like it's the only way for me to do this track. The problem with saturation is that you may get very nasty artifacts on distorted guitars (this nasty, brittle, sandy sizzling), so I tend not to go hard on saturation with this sort of material.