05-01-2020, 10:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2020, 04:14 AM by morgueritual.)
Im new to mixing music. I have been playing music (metal) for 35 yrs and have recording experience but I have never mixed until 2019. I mainly set up my studio to record my own music. I have a death metal project called Morgue Ritual.
I run a hybrid setup. I like using hardware and a lot was used on this mix.
I use Reaper with a MOTU 828es and a Ferrofish Pulse 16 converter for my hardware inserts. Luckily I do well for myself so I have pretty good hardware.
I had a hard time isolating the drums from all the mic bleed so all the drums are samples via the Steven Slate trigger plugin. I didnt care for the guitar tone either so I reamped the DI tracks back through my Kemper and blended those into the amp tracks.
I have a couple Rupert Neve 551 Eq's I used on the stereo guitar bus.
I used a BAE 1073 EQ on the snare sample high passing @ 40htz and boosting the 10k about 3db
I put an IGS Rubberbands EQ on the kick. This is a passive Pultec style EQ so I was able to do the "Low end trick" where I boosted and attenuated the same frequency to bring up the bottom end and tighten it up a bit. This was done at 80htz
Vocal bus went into my distressor at a 6:1 ratio. Quick attack and release. Then a little Izotope necter for flavor.
Bass was put through the Neural DSP Parallax plugin then into a JDK Audio v14 EQ.
Drum bus was put through a ART VLA pro Opto compressor.
Then I have the whole stereo bus going into a Heritage Audio Succesor bus compressor at 4:1, quick attack and auto release with 8db of make-up. Then thats going into two Pultec EQ's boosting 60 htz to thicken up the mix and 10k for some sparkle on top.
I also used various plugins obviously.
RTA 6 to notch the nasties out of the guitar between 4k and 6k. Focusrite red compressor on toms, etc etc..
COMON GUYS, GIVE ME SOME HONEST FEEDBACK.
I run a hybrid setup. I like using hardware and a lot was used on this mix.
I use Reaper with a MOTU 828es and a Ferrofish Pulse 16 converter for my hardware inserts. Luckily I do well for myself so I have pretty good hardware.
I had a hard time isolating the drums from all the mic bleed so all the drums are samples via the Steven Slate trigger plugin. I didnt care for the guitar tone either so I reamped the DI tracks back through my Kemper and blended those into the amp tracks.
I have a couple Rupert Neve 551 Eq's I used on the stereo guitar bus.
I used a BAE 1073 EQ on the snare sample high passing @ 40htz and boosting the 10k about 3db
I put an IGS Rubberbands EQ on the kick. This is a passive Pultec style EQ so I was able to do the "Low end trick" where I boosted and attenuated the same frequency to bring up the bottom end and tighten it up a bit. This was done at 80htz
Vocal bus went into my distressor at a 6:1 ratio. Quick attack and release. Then a little Izotope necter for flavor.
Bass was put through the Neural DSP Parallax plugin then into a JDK Audio v14 EQ.
Drum bus was put through a ART VLA pro Opto compressor.
Then I have the whole stereo bus going into a Heritage Audio Succesor bus compressor at 4:1, quick attack and auto release with 8db of make-up. Then thats going into two Pultec EQ's boosting 60 htz to thicken up the mix and 10k for some sparkle on top.
I also used various plugins obviously.
RTA 6 to notch the nasties out of the guitar between 4k and 6k. Focusrite red compressor on toms, etc etc..
COMON GUYS, GIVE ME SOME HONEST FEEDBACK.
