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Not going to write an essay about it, but just a quick comment on the mix... I thought there was far too much mids on the guitar tone, it made it sound boxy and wierd, almost like it was played on a synthesiser. I think it needs more treble to bring out the pick attack, to make the palm muted 16th notes a bit less mushy and more defined.
If you want it to chart you will have to change the middle 8 for a rap in Jamaican Patois. (Joke.)
I think we would benefit from hearing some more of the story behind this.
What guitar are you using?
What are the lyric?
How did you build it? From the drums up? What scales etc?
I know it might come across as arrogant if you offered all this at the start but I think it is what raises these thing above average.
I have applied some EQ and publish it again (under the same link). Hopefully now sounds better. I think it is time to invest in some sound gear, not only a 10 years old laptop with crappy 25EUR headphones
Sounds better to me.
I still think the guitar sits too prominently in the mix. Either bring everything else up a bit or take the guitar down a notch (either in volume or scoop out the mids in the 1kHz range more).
But that's just my opinion.
First - the guitars. I have a cheap Epiphone Les Paul Special II and Gibson Les Paul Studio. Usually I practice on the Epi (easy and fun to play) and record with the Gibson (fantastic guitar with more refined sound). This time I have used both, as the rough primal sound of the 700T humbucker of the Epiphone was just fitting the song right. I have recorded the rhythm guitars twice - the one goes in the right channel, the other - in the left channel. This gives to the sound more density, but also makes it sound less monolith - a question of compromise. On both guitars I use the bridge pickups.
I use a guitar processor (ZOOM G3Xn) and enter the signal directly to the IN via sound controller (UCA222 from Behringer). My effect chain in the Zoom is : ZNR -> MetalWRLD -> MS4x12.
The bass is played on the guitar (the Gibson) on the neck pickup and with the chain on the Zoom : Oct -> GtGEQ.
Recording and mixing is simply done with Audacity. It does not have really a lot of functionalities, so it is more or less like a live recording...
The drums are programmed on the open source drum machine Hydrogen2. I remember I have downloaded some additional samples from the forum of the web-site of Hydrogen.
Voice - the vocals are simply recorded and mixed, no additional effects are applied on them (not even compressor). Initially I tried to sing clean, but my voice sounds ridiculously childish when recorded. That´s why I tried to learn some screaming techniques from Youtube. Obviously I didn´t really get how to do it, but something came nevertheless out and I have used what I had. This singing requires really loud screaming, that´s why I am recording outside - I drive in the fields or forest at night (Germany is a kind of crowded, in the day you hardly find a place where no people walk around). I understand that I look like a psychopath who think he is a werewolf or such, and I had luck till now, that no one called Police and I didn´t end in the madhouse
Just made me feel ace. Love it.