I really love the guitars and the music.  Fantastic! 

Wow! Great stuff guys!
 
 

I doubt that guy even watches t.v. preachers.
 
Really clear mix! For dense heavy stuff, it all shines through. Each part and component is super distinct. That's a job well done. I feel those guitars on the edges, and the vocal lives large on the edges as well. Did you make a concerted effort to leave the middle of the spectrum clearer? Drums in the center?
 
My only crit, and this would probably screw up your fine mix, is vocals a little louder. In the chorus, you could drop the guitars/kick pedal just a hair, and let that all-important chorus vocal pop out of the woofers like Rosemary's Baby.
 
Holy triple kick pedal, that guy can bring it.
 
I appreciated your different rhythmic signatures as you went along. Made it a great listen.
 
-Tom
 
 

@Hugh and Gerrard... Thanks guys. :-)
 
@emeraldsoul...
 
Thanks to you as well. Bapu was the head engineer on this so he'd have to detail his end of things but for this one I wanted to FINALLY get my own crap together as far as cleaning up my guitar sound. I will post the deets later but essentially, as you noted, this thick/distorted style mix is tricky and the main reason is usually due to the guits. Once we got a decent overall sound I then swiped that mix from Bapu and did everything I could to squeeze my guits into available corners of the mix via panning, sim settings, EQ, etc (all based on the tons of advice I've received over the years around here). I wanted to acheive some nice guitar power without giving in ( or giving in as little as possible) to the usual "wall of guits" trap a lot of metal suffers from... which of course leads to other things getting masked and/or needing to be over compressed or whatever the heck these new school metal producers do (NTTIAWWT but I like to hear EVERYTHING... not just the guits and I also like a bit of dynamics as opposed to "EVERYTHING IS LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!!").
 
This is still very rudimentary and I'm still finding my footing as far as mix stuff but yeah... just taking some time to really get the guits out of the way of other instruments without sacrificing the actual guits seems to have paid off.
 
I think I was kind of going for an "extreme" Alex Lifeson situation where the guits are totally there and cool but not to the detriment of other parts. It's by no means perfect but I think I managed to get close to where I need to be.
 
Cheers and thanks for listenin'!

Beepster

jamesg1213
No expert on metal, but this is a well written, performed and produced track. Excellent work folks.

Thanks, dood. A LOT of hours and a not insignificant amount of angst went into the creation of this one.
 
It's quite possible I broke The Bapu.
 
:-/
 
...
 
:-D

''dood''?

*makes mental note*:
 
"jamesg may or may not have been the frontman for Scatterbrain" (maybe NSFW).
 
;-)
 
 

This sounds good, well written piece of metal with good amount of diversity.
I really like it!

loved the bass and guitar at the intro, really great sound!
 
personally, I'd like to hear a little more punch in the drums, but this might be normal for the genre?  other than that the mix is really well balanced!  crunchy guitars sound really great!
 
love the bridge guitars, too!  great sound!  great playing!

eph221
The guitar at the beginning sounded stellar!  Overall FIVE STARS!

Thanks for the listen David.

Hugh Mann
I really love the guitars and the music.  Fantastic! 

Thanks Mr Mann for the listen.