Metallica - Enter Sandman cover

Good tones.  Good start.  Bass guitar?

Thr drums sit nicely.  Are these real? I can't tell (And I'm a drummer) so if these are the Session Drummer or other type of "fake" ones, you did good!  They don't sound steril and canned as many other recordings do (Including a LOT on the radio waves today).

If they are not and someone played this, I would tell Lars to watch his back!

The guitar playing is great!  Great tone too.  You need to find someone who can sing this.

The guitar seemed a little low compared to the drums to me.  Also the bass could use bumping.

Note I am listening on ear buds so it might be the reason the bass sits weak with me.

Ah memories,use to do a cover of this when in the band a few years back.

This does sound good I would have to say, certainly If you are trying to replicate the sound of the original. So kudos for getting a good sounding mix.

I agree with both comments above, the bass could come forward a little and the drums sound good, if they are fake, I want to know. The song defo needs a melody line, So what morenoise said above, if your lookin for some kind of vocal on it and stuck for someone, then I would be more than happy to send you over a take or two.
 
Anyway,good work,wish my mixes sounded a bit more like this,think its time to upgrade to producer edition!
 
Cian

@patm300e, @whack - they are fake drums - Steven Slate 3.5 Black kit that I MIDI programmed

@acoustigod - I agree that the "larger than life" feeling is not there.  This mix already has both rhythm parts
double-tracked.  I played/recorded each part twice, then panned the 1st part 100%left/40%left and the 2nd part 100%right/40% right.  I didn't scoop the mids on the amp tone, but it *is* a MESA so it's kinda scooped anyways.  I'll have to play around with my mic placement to see if it helps .  thanks for the advice

you need some more delay on the guitar...but sounds really nice!

I'm listening to the actual mix. A few things:

1. Apply a limiter to your guitar tracks. Get more volume of them, even if it's just a -3.0db threshold while keeping the ceiling at 0.

2. Limit the whole track more if you're not already. Get to an average of -10db or -11db RMS.

3. The intro guitar has more of a chorus/flange effect. It's stronger. The tone is more thick. This is tracking issue as well as a plugin issue. It's probably easier to use plugins to get the big effect sound rather than expecting your amp to create it. It'll also make the signal easier to work with honestly.

4. Definitely use parallel compression if you're not already. If you are, try and make it bigger. The toms in the beginning of the actual mix are EPIC. I'd say parallel everything.

5. Add reverb to your snare so that it echos like on the original mix.

6. Those guitars on the original mix have a lot of reverb/delay on them, which is totally missing from yours.

7. I think the original mix is washed with reverb on the whole track too, so you might want to apply reverb to your whole mix as well at the mastering stage.

That should get you closer.

What is parallel compression? And what does it do?

@acousticgod, @mgh, @ruralrocker2010,

First off, Thanks guys - all of your info and support is really helpful!

Since I double tracked each of the two rhythm parts, I have 4 rhythm guitar tracks.  In my mix, all 4 tracks output to a "rhythm" bus where I EQed a highpass @150Hz and a -3db @5000Hz(harshness).  If I start playing around with adding delay/reverb, do I want to do it to each individual track or just once to the rhythm bus?  Sorry if this is a noob question - I'm just starting out.  :)

ruralrocker2010


What is parallel compression? And what does it do?

It's when you play the original track along side a highly compressed track. The original track can also be compressed too, but usually the parallel compressed track (a bus) is very compressed. This is often used when you are trying to bring out punch, attack, volume, etc. in drums to get them to cut through in a mix. You can parallel compression to do a lot of other things though too. It's not just limited to drums.

And of course, you can EQ the compressed bus before or after the compression to get the blended sound to be exactly what you want. In R&B vocals for example, you HP @ 400hz on the compressed bus to get the "s" sounds and the highs of a vocal to be really huge.

Great guitar playing!   You already got lots of feedback on your mix.