Left Blind Mixed by DCP

[dcp10200]

I started mixing this after I finished my final mix/master of Ill Fate but I was never happy with the mixes I was getting so I scrapped them all and didn't touch this track untill sometime last week. I think what was bugging me the most was my drum sounds, I did resample the drums on the previous versions of this track, however I kept finding that my ususal samples in ezdrummer didn't really cut it and the original drum tracks, while good for rock and indie and other lighter genres, didn't really suit metalcore. After experimenting for a while last week I finally got the sound I was looking for, so I printed the samples and went to work. The overheads are hipassed at 2 kHz to get rid of the rest of the kit elements save for the cymbals. The kick I ended up using was from the Ez Drummer Metal! expansion (Ring Smack Kick) and the snare and toms are from Metal Machine (Dunnett Titanium Snare and Ludwig Stainless Steel Toms). I also included the room and overhead mics from The Classic Ez Drummer expansion as that seemed to glue it all together. Apart from some Eq to fit the kick into the mix and some gated reverb and compression on the snare the kit is unprocessed. The bass is run into an 1176 emulation taking off 5-6 dBs of gain with a fast attack and release followed by some eq (boost at 110 Hz and a cut at 700 Hz) from a 1073 emulation
with some preamp drive, then a compressor taking another 2 dB of gain off, a little tape saturation and a limiter taking 3 dB off, resulting in a very consistent and heavy bass tone. The hardpanned rhythm guitar is run through an emulation of a 5150 through an orange and mesa 412 cab in guitar rig 5, and the center panned rhythm guitar is run through a Recto emulation through the same cabs in guitar rig with the mix varied on the cabs. The guitars have been grouped and eq'ed to taste. The lead guitar has a phaser on it and is eq'ed to taste. The lead vocals are compressed and eq'ed to taste with a little bit og GClip for some subtle grit and to even the vocals. Gangs are highpassed at 300 Hz with a shelf boost at 6.2 kHz. the mix is run though a SSL Compressor emulation and a Neve master section emulation. The intro is Lo-Fied untill the 21 Second mark. Mastering was some Eq opimizing, multiband compression, tape saturation, and limiting up to K12 master level. Please leave you critiques and comments. Enjoy.

P.S Sorry for the long winded description