You'd Like To Headbang?

Here we have a metal band from UK, Karybdis, with their song's called "Constellations". Produced and engineer by Nolly (Red Seas Fire, Periphery) and John Walker. This song is amazingly headbangable.

Let's take a listen:

Karybdis - Constellations:

This is information note from producers itself:

DRUMS: Produced and engineered by Adam "Nolly" Getgood and John Walker. 

Tracked at Moles Studio, Bath, UK. Tama Superstar kick, Taye custom toms, Gretsch Bell Brass snare. Mics listed in track files. 

-Kick In tracked through DBX 160VU compressor 

-Snare Top routed through Vintech X73i (Neve clone) pushed into overdrive for aggressive crunch 

-Overheads and room stereo files panned from drummer perspective 

-Overhead mono mic is omni and therefore quite ambient 

-Over Shoulder mic placed behind drummer 

-Stereo Room tracks compressed by Tube-Tech LCA-2B 

-Mono Room mic aimed at reflective surface on floor and heavily compressed through 1176 

GUITARS/BASS: Produced and engineered by Harsha Dasari. 

Bass DI compressed through Distressor, B7K track reamped through Darkglass B7K distortion pedal. 

VOCALS: Produced and engineered by John Walker. Recorded with handheld SM58 through 1176. Handheld technique results in inconsistent tonal qualities, very tricky to mix! 

STRINGS: Produced and engineered by Jon Walker and Adam "Nolly" Getgood. Tracked at Moles Studio, Bath, UK.

So, what you think guys?

Nashville Vibe

Nashville, the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee, center for healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities, and off course music industries. This city best know called Music City. Everything from pop, rock, to heavy metal has been produced there, but country music was probably most shine.

Here we have a band called Uncle Dad with their song called "Who I Am" was recorded flawlessly by high spec microphone Telefunken. Let's take a listen:

Uncle Dad - Who I Am

It was a good song, isn't it?

This song was produced and engineered by Dan Frizsell at Legends Studio, Nashville. I'm not done much editing and processing while mixing because the tracks is already great. I only accentuate the Nashville vibe on it.

So here some comments from engineer's friend:

So, how about yours?

Admit It: Girl In A Rock Band Are Hot As Hell!

Yes, we love to see them rockin in stage, and perhaps we also love to hear their tunes played in your favorite radio. Fronted-female band has been popular since 80's. Let's say Marie Frederiksson of Roxette, Dolores O'Riordan of Cranberries, their singles are still enjoyable to hear these day. Also there's Gwen Stefani of No Doubt, and Hayley Williams of Paramore, hundreds of list, and they are all smoking hot.

So here we have ACTIONS!, an UK based fronted-female band. Let's hear their songs:

ACTIONS! - One Minute Smile

ACTIONS! - South Of The Water

Pretty good isn't it?

The first song is called One Minute Smile, a medium-fast rock tunes with strong overdriven guitars and punchy drums. The Second one is called South Of The Water, a bit slower and more intense, but still have that rock energy.

For drums, I replace the snare, kick, and toms with Slate samples combined with my own custom samples. I did this because the drum tone on closed mic was kinda weak and bleeding was a bit of uncontrollable. The vocals has a star quality but sibilance is out of control, even when I'm using multiple deesser in series. So here I did my best to mixing their songs. Am I did it?

How About Metalcore?

So this is some Metalcore Mix.




Drums are Superior Drummer The Metal Foundry SDX blended with Slate on snare and kick

Guitars are POD Farm

Bass are IK Multimedia Ampeg

I mixed this song totally in the box using stock plugins, Waves plugins, and bunch of free plugins.

Lemme know what you think?

Modern vs Retro

It's hard to believe these kind of music is still exist. This song was live performance provided and captured very well by hi-end microphone manufacture Telefunken. Support this amazing band at: http://www.theabletones.com/Dan_Gabel_and_The_Abletones/Welcome.html

This time I'll show you an example how mastering process could really affect your entire mix. 

Here first example of modern "clean" version of mastering:  

Next example is more retro sounding. I just simply added tape saturation plugin (massey Tapehead) and push it until some harmonic distortion warmth is heard. So, which one you would like best?

Maroon 5 with steroid

Some raw tracks that provided by hi-end microphone manufacture Telefunken, very VERY well recorded performance. I'm not doing editing, or sample replacement on drums, or retracking, whatsoever. Just pure raw live performance that has captured flawlessly by great mics, great engineer, great gear.

I mix this song totally in the box with various plugins from Avid/Digidesign, Waves, and a bunch of free plugins.

 Support the band by clicking here: www.thebrew.biz/ Let see what people say about this mix:

Got Djent?

Here I'm after Periphery's big monstrous sound. Thanks for dude at Daybreak Studio (www.facebook.com/DaybreakStudioSwe) who has been recorded pretty well performance and high quality DI gutar tracks and also great drum programming.

I'm using Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 Avatar kits for drums with kick from The Metal Foundry SDX.

Guitars: combined POD Farm 2 and Eleven Free that comes with Pro Tools

Bass: SansAmp PSA plugins from Pro Tools

I mix this song totally in the box with various plugins from Avid/Digidesign, Waves, and a bunch of free plugins.

Lemme know what you think!