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Arkhane
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:54 am 
 
InThyKingdom wrote:
Another sip of "funny" evil thrash metal :)SATANIC PANZER BRIGADE
Any comments are welcome! :)
Hail and cheers!

Haha! This was a fun listen. I really don't have many complaints about this one. Sounds really well done.
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NEKROHAZERD
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 3:05 am 
 
thank you.i really appreciate your criticism.

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ShaolinLambKiller
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:51 pm 
 
NEKROHAZERD wrote:
check out some of my music its death,black,or thrash or a mixture
raw stuff all original

https://soundcloud.com/darkrealmzero/sets/songs

http://youtu.be/y52d6EMw-is

http://youtu.be/S7YHswgAMSM

tell me what you think about my songs.constructive criticism ideas on new songs


Arkhane pretty much hit all the nails on the head of what I would've said. Good tunes thus far just marred by production
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:57 pm 
 
Nordic_Warhammer wrote:
So below is a much better mix, with a little more guitar recorded. The vocals and synth still need to be recorded, but I am pretty happy with it myself.

https://soundcloud.com/glorioususurper/drepa-the-howling-winds-of-vinland-incompleterough-mix-8162014

Any thoughts?


I'm digging it, I'm taking it that there will be some vocals on top of this at some point. the first portion of the song seemed to drag on and then about mid way it really picked up and really got interesting and I feel it could've been extended out further, even throwing in a lead. it just seems like the entire more interesting end is just rushed and wrapped up way too quickly.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:35 pm 
 
CF_Mono, Poisoned By Life is very well written and performed. I don't really like the main fuzz tone in this context because some of the palm muted chugging lacks percussive power due to that woofy bottom end. But it's a small matter. Overall it works very nicely, well done!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:12 pm 
 
Thanks a ton for the input Arkhane and ShaolinLambKiller. In regards to the later section feeling rushed: yeah, I can see that, though I was wanting the end section to be a bit on the shorter side, and while the first section is drawn out (it ended up longer than I had initially intended), I think it will all come together once the vocals are tracked. The vocalist is a good friend of mine who has participated in a number of black metal bands, though this is all he does now a days, and his voice is fantastic.

Here is what will be the final mix until we get the vocals tracked:
https://soundcloud.com/glorioususurper/drepa-the-howling-winds-of-vinland-no-vocals
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:58 pm 
 
I'll have to check it when I get back home, my laptop doesn't load soundcloud. but really I think you could easily expand that end making that song much more epic and satisfying. From what I remember it has a great feel of Primordal. It'd be a shame if you cheat out on it.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:05 pm 
 
Hmmmm, well, I just might have to flesh it out a bit more. It really could benefit from a bit more during the more epic part of the song. If nothing else, it will probably end up being rewritten a bit and re recorded at soe point down the line.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:44 pm 
 
good to hear that you might be open to the idea at least.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:47 pm 
 
I am actually leaning towards extending it a bit via some lead guitar, though not in the same fashion as the two lead bits earlier in the song. The more I listen to it, the more I don't want that part to end yet, and I think that would likely be a good way of fleshing it out.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:46 am 
 
That sounds like a solid idea to me!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:39 pm 
 
btw, feel free to stick the list in the first post SLK :) (I'll keep updating links)
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:22 pm 
 
Done!!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:00 am 
 
arkhane.i redid a track and i really fucked around with the panning of the guitars and stuff check it out. tell me what you think

old version
https://soundcloud.com/darkrealmzero/nekrophiliak


new version
https://soundcloud.com/darkrealmzero/ne ... krophiliac
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:48 am 
 
NEKROHAZERD wrote:
arkhane.i redid a track and i really fucked around with the panning of the guitars and stuff check it out. tell me what you think

old version
https://soundcloud.com/darkrealmzero/nekrophiliak


new version
https://soundcloud.com/darkrealmzero/ne ... krophiliac

If you did, I can't tell. The only difference I'm catching is the vocals are louder, and truthfully, I prefer the old version.

In order to correctly pan the guitars, you have to record them more than once, and then set them to the left and right speakers. Copy and paste doesn't work (at least not in my experience) and any kind of reverb/delay won't help either. If you try to copy and paste, it will only center the sound in the middle again IF it doesn't give it some weird modulation effect you don't want.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 4:57 am 
 
Copying and pasting is so lame. Just record another track for the panning dude :P
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:06 pm 
 
damn.
haha yeah your right.
just going to move on to a new track.
besides i dont think i remember the riffs.thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:38 pm 
 
Can anyone give me their thoughts on something i just finished...? i recorded it yesterday before class real quick so i might have to re do if i decide to keep it... the drums suck obviously since its midi, its pretty standard black metal nothing crazy lol

https://soundcloud.com/anomic-humanoid/well-of-souls

Edit: Also, i dont use soundcloud, so im not sure why its following Relapse or any of those bands that show, so i dunno wtf thats all about
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:54 pm 
 
Nekrohazerd, I think most of us self recording musicians have tried it before when we were starting out... I think. I remember trying it and wondering what I was doing wrong, or if my DAW was just a cheap knockoff. It's all part of the learning curve.
Anomic Humanoid wrote:
Can anyone give me their thoughts on something i just finished...? i recorded it yesterday before class real quick so i might have to re do if i decide to keep it... the drums suck obviously since its midi, its pretty standard black metal nothing crazy lol

https://soundcloud.com/anomic-humanoid/well-of-souls

Edit: Also, i dont use soundcloud, so im not sure why its following Relapse or any of those bands that show, so i dunno wtf thats all about

It's written well enough, sounds like a melodic type of black metal. I can hear an abhorrent amount of volume clipping though, so that would be my first step besides finding some decent drum software (or a drummer :P)
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haha.
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TOTAL FUCKING DEPILATION

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Pluck it out!
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Rub the cream!
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Everything must go!

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 4:40 pm 
 
Arkhane wrote:
Nekrohazerd, I think most of us self recording musicians have tried it before when we were starting out... I think.



Yep. been there done that and wondered why it was so horrible, kept fucking with the eq and passing filters till I finally had completely destroyed the guitar tracks and restarted.. tried two separate ones. worked better at least.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:14 am 
 
https://soundcloud.com/matthew-brown-21 ... ood-within

Hopefully the final mix on this song. Snare seems leveled, and the rest of the drums sound awesome. I just had to turn it down a nad bit, and take away some of the tom presence to get the drums out of your face, but still strong in the mix. Any feedback is appreciated.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:52 pm 
 
@Archane Really like the song. Somehow reminds me Opeth, the growls are absolutely astonishing. One of my favorite types of death metal vocals. The only thing that I miss in the mix is that (to me) the drums have too much presence in the center and no "breathing space" in the pans (excluding the floors). I would go for more stereo-expanding the drums. Otherwise excellent work!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:03 pm 
 
InThyKingdom wrote:
@Arkhane Really like the song. Somehow reminds me Opeth, the growls are absolutely astonishing. One of my favorite types of death metal vocals. The only thing that I miss in the mix is that (to me) the drums have too much presence in the center and no "breathing space" in the pans (excluding the floors). I would go for more stereo-expanding the drums. Otherwise excellent work!

The drums were recorded using a 5 mic set-up; 2 toms, kick and snare, and a single overhead. I'm not sure if there is any way to spread the cymbals out (utilizing the cymbals bleeding into the toms or something), but I'll play with it a little bit. Probably end up sampling some of the crash hits into another track and just pan it out like that. Now that you mention it, it sounds like the hihat is too close to center also.

Thank you for your feedback. :)

Edit: No new posts, so I'll just edit this one.
I tried sampling the crash, also tried using the original drum program to supplement a couple of cymbals (which I did NOT keep, by the way). Now, I think I figured it out. What I did was I used the single overhead mic as the SECONDARY... yes, secondary cymbal track, filtered it with a low pass, and I removed the low pass from the 2 toms and spread them a wee bit more. This way, the toms sound a little sharper, but the placement of the ride is where it should be, the crash and splash have a good but subtle presence, and the hi-hat is centered but not too thin. Essentially the tom mics are placing the cymbals where they should be, and the overhead mic is supplying the thickness of the cymbals and giving them life.

Forgive me if this is a common trick, I don't read up much on producing music and I just figured this out about an hour ago.
Here is the new mix: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-brown-21 ... second-mix
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:29 pm 
 
InThyKingdom, it also reminded me of Opeth when I heard it :)

I think I said this in another thread, but I really like the sad riffs and the vocals are great too. I played drums on the song (based on Arkhane's programmed drums) and another overhead mic is next on my to-buy list (not sure when though). Just an idea, but another option could be to turn the overhead track into a fake stereo track by using two tracks and panning them and moving one of them over a tiny bit, or using different EQ on one, or something like that. You'd have all cymbals on both sides, but maybe it would free up the middle a bit (I haven't actually tried that on overhead before).

Edit: haven't listened to the new mixes yet, but will check them out on my laptop soon
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:35 pm 
 
Arkhane, yeah I'm pretty sure I prefer the second mix for the reasons you are saying. That is a really cool trick, nice work!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:55 pm 
 
Thank you both, very much. :)
CloggedUrethra wrote:
Just an idea, but another option could be to turn the overhead track into a fake stereo track by using two tracks and panning them and moving one of them over a tiny bit, or using different EQ on one, or something like that. You'd have all cymbals on both sides, but maybe it would free up the middle a bit (I haven't actually tried that on overhead before).

I think that will still give it a weird chorus-like effect that would not sound good at all on something like cymbals. At least on my DAW it does. Beforehand, I also tried giving the overhead a little delay and reverb to try to spread the signal, but even with almost no feedback it really messed with the cymbal hiss.

If I'm correct, though, the only thing I had to do was remove low pass from the toms, replace it on the overhead, and finally turn down the overhead signal a tad to make up for the extra cymbal noise poking through. The low pass wasn't set very low either, just enough to get rid of the ultra high end presence.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:56 am 
 
Just checked out your second mix and I'm digging it!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:30 pm 
 
Happy to hear it, bro. :headbang:
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:16 am 
 
Excellent work guys! Looks like this song is about to be repeated many times today :)
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:53 pm 
 
It really makes me feel good to hear that. It's not really a 'needing approval' type thing, but more of a 'I'm glad to be able to share something with someone and lead them through a story of sorts'.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:20 am 
 
Red As Blood Within has got some killer riffs man. \m/ And man, those clean/growling vox. It's like.... a better Opeth.

I just did this. Not metal, but by all means was totally fun to make.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:16 pm 
 
It's weird, because I moved on a long time ago from Opeth after they released Heritage and have been taking influence more from Bathory and Hypocrisy, among others. But I can't deny Opeth is still a big part of my song influence, even after a few years, haha!

Edit: I had forgotten to credit the drum performance on the soundcloud file to CloggedUrethra (well, using his actual name). I'm sorry.

I have never seen whatever show that cover came from, but it was really well mixed. Like a sort of dirty punk rockish vibe. I'm not too familiar with the style, but I can't complain besides the fact that it's not in my taste palette. Well done, bro.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 11:38 pm 
 
I've gotten much better at production. I'm more conscious of the bass and kick tones but I'm still a sucker for high and end especially jangly shit like Dino Jr. haha.

it was a cover of this.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:27 am 
 
Arkhane, Clogged top notch. Finally got to listen to it. I hear the Opeth influences and the Hypocrisy ones but overall it reminds me more of Novembre.
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Much appreciated guys. :)
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:03 pm 
 
Nice track Arkhane, you've got a good voice, did you do everything yourself? Either way well done.

I've been working on some atmospheric, not completely metal based music lately. I haven't been on these forums in years though, so hi everyone.

https://soundcloud.com/n-x/decaying-ruins
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:41 pm 
 
Welcome back dude!

I like your track, the composition is quite nice. The way the distorted guitar sits kind of in the distance of the mix gives it a good atmosphere. That lead in the last section is a very nice touch as well.
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