Love the riffs on this one, reminds me of a more modern take on Holy Diver (if Killswitch and Breaking Benjamin teamed up)! Here's my first draft on this mix done between running some errands and a dinner gig (I play in a concert band and every so often we provide dinner music for different groups in the community), I'm going to do a proper run through tomorrow and refine what I've got going on when my ears are fresh. The leads definitely need some ironing out level wise and a touch of eq on the mono bits during the solo, same with the backups. Feel free leave some comments and suggestions.
Cheers,
Doug
Update: I took Blitzzz's advice and backed off some low end in the mix, I had been using a Pul Tec EQ1Pa emultaion on my master buss which enhanced the low end too much (along with my low end boost on the kick and bass) so I removed that and made some adustments in the mix overall. The bass is automated in the chuggy sections to that it doesn't interfere too much, the kick runs now have a 70 Hz highpass on them and a touch more lows, the normal kick has less low end added to it to make it fit better, the toms are now eq'd and compressed to help them fit better and are panned wider, the master buss also has less compression and an SSL Master buss emulation on it rather than my usual Neve emulation.
Update 2: Here is my second mix without limiter and other processing as per Maxine's recommendation. It's still 16 bit MP3 but atleast there's no limiting.
Update 3: This time I used the KSE Cover of Holy Diver as a reference mix, this mix is a ground up mix and like last time I've included the unmastered mix as well as a Faux Master (The mix boosted 6 dB by the Drumforge LaBrosse It! Plugin on the masterbuss into Waves L1 as my dither and to prevent any overs).
Cheers,
Doug
Update: I took Blitzzz's advice and backed off some low end in the mix, I had been using a Pul Tec EQ1Pa emultaion on my master buss which enhanced the low end too much (along with my low end boost on the kick and bass) so I removed that and made some adustments in the mix overall. The bass is automated in the chuggy sections to that it doesn't interfere too much, the kick runs now have a 70 Hz highpass on them and a touch more lows, the normal kick has less low end added to it to make it fit better, the toms are now eq'd and compressed to help them fit better and are panned wider, the master buss also has less compression and an SSL Master buss emulation on it rather than my usual Neve emulation.
Update 2: Here is my second mix without limiter and other processing as per Maxine's recommendation. It's still 16 bit MP3 but atleast there's no limiting.
Update 3: This time I used the KSE Cover of Holy Diver as a reference mix, this mix is a ground up mix and like last time I've included the unmastered mix as well as a Faux Master (The mix boosted 6 dB by the Drumforge LaBrosse It! Plugin on the masterbuss into Waves L1 as my dither and to prevent any overs).
Mixing is way more art and soul than science. We don’t really know what we’re doing. We do it because we love music! It’s the love of music first. Eddie Kramer
Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6
Gear list: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, Mbox Mini w/Pro Tools Express, Reaper, Various plugins, AKG K240 MKii, Audio Technica ATH M50x, Yorkville YSM 6