02-03-2015, 10:00 AM
I went and made some adjustments. The biggest problem for me is making the vocal less hollow and these drums. It's very difficult to integrate these type of drums for me. They kind of lend themselves better to a dryer production. I think I found what you were talking about, takka.
http://erikhawkins.berkleemusicblogs.com...mpression/
That opens up a lot of possibilities. I've read the PT manual, watched lots of Pensado's Place and other educational shows, but all this info isn't going to sink in over night, especially if I'm not attempting anything where I can use it. Most of my time was spent with Reaper, it's only been the last 4 weeks or so where I've been using Pro Tools. When I went through and listened to a bunch of classic and modern stuff, there is a huge difference in the drums for sure. Even something like a Lullacry Be My God snare would be much easier for me to add fx around. Snares for songs like When the Night Comes Down by Priest were pretty easy to work with for me. There's so much space to play around in.
Death are actually a big influence on the drum sounds I want to get. Leprosy for the snare and either ITP or Symbolic for the kick. I think there's some melodic metal influence on the vocals in this song. Definitely more aggressive than that stuff though.
One modern metal production style I did like was used on a lot on Frontiers records stuff like Allen Lande:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GADAAvlQHJY
and Tony O'Hora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDitUeYTUQ
To me it seems to have all the benefits of the classic and modern tools and without sounding too terribly squashed. For the melodic death metal style that a lot of bands such as Killswitch took influence from, I always liked stuff like Amon Amarth's Once Sent From the Golden Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4dA1X9fqU
thanks again for the tips everyone
http://erikhawkins.berkleemusicblogs.com...mpression/
That opens up a lot of possibilities. I've read the PT manual, watched lots of Pensado's Place and other educational shows, but all this info isn't going to sink in over night, especially if I'm not attempting anything where I can use it. Most of my time was spent with Reaper, it's only been the last 4 weeks or so where I've been using Pro Tools. When I went through and listened to a bunch of classic and modern stuff, there is a huge difference in the drums for sure. Even something like a Lullacry Be My God snare would be much easier for me to add fx around. Snares for songs like When the Night Comes Down by Priest were pretty easy to work with for me. There's so much space to play around in.
Death are actually a big influence on the drum sounds I want to get. Leprosy for the snare and either ITP or Symbolic for the kick. I think there's some melodic metal influence on the vocals in this song. Definitely more aggressive than that stuff though.
One modern metal production style I did like was used on a lot on Frontiers records stuff like Allen Lande:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GADAAvlQHJY
and Tony O'Hora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDitUeYTUQ
To me it seems to have all the benefits of the classic and modern tools and without sounding too terribly squashed. For the melodic death metal style that a lot of bands such as Killswitch took influence from, I always liked stuff like Amon Amarth's Once Sent From the Golden Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4dA1X9fqU
thanks again for the tips everyone