Hey guys,

I just finished basic work on this guy. No vox yet but whatever. Basic metally stuff. Your thoughts appreciated!!!

Here http://www.reverbnation.com/standerproject/song/18508521-naamloos-demo

Wow...no responses....is it that bad?? ???

Nice arrangements. It sounds pretty tight, well done man :bopping:
I really like the choppy intro riff!

ThomasN wrote: Nice arrangements. It sounds pretty tight, well done man :bopping:
I really like the choppy intro riff!

Thanks man!

Everything sounds good, everything works, but nothing new.

21Fretter wrote:nothing new.

Maybe it's time to bring out my Arctic Mating Noises and mix them in... ?
Hehehe.

Doing something truly original nowadays...not easy...so I am basically just dropping all my influences into one pot...

Its great, good production, nice vibe and kief riffs.

I really like the lead hook

I like it a lot, to me everything sounds real solid, I like the arrangements and great lead tone. listening to this I just realize again how much I have to work on my own stuff to get it sounding near a decent level.

Care to take me through your recording setup? ?

Jacques_nasi wrote: Care to take me through your recording setup? ?

Also interested. Enjoyed the piece, overall good production.

Jacques_nasi wrote: Care to take me through your recording setup? ?

Well, I was hoping no-one would ask but to be honest my setup is really REALLY basic. I am basically running straight into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 into Cubase.
Guitars: Gibson '61 SG and Dean Angel of Deth running through Guitar Rig using custom patches.
Bass: Yamaha (not sure of model)
Drums: Easy Drummer (lol)
Symphonic elements: Miroslav Philharmonik (I can recommend this to anyone wanting to add symphonic elements to their stuff. Best I've heard)
Some minor multi-band compression on the out BUS to clean and tighten it up a little. It's far form perfect I think but to be honest I know very little about sound production so I twiddle knobs till it sounds good to me, and work from there. hahahaha!

The one thing though that I can say helped my amateur productions A LOT, was investing in a set of monitors, and a set of studio, flat monitoring headphones. The monitors are M-Audio (around R3000 for the set), and the headphones KRK (around R1000). Before I got them I used a set of normal Sennheizer headphones, through which anything basically sounded good as it colored the sound quite a bit. It was only after I started using the monitors that I noticed my mixes sounding a bit better all around due to the extra work I noticed needed after hearing my stuff through the monitors. If you listen to my other songs at that link, which were all pre-monitors, you can actually hear the difference between those and the one I posted here. Fine, they do not have bass either, but you can still hear they sound a little too harsh, or too soft, or parts drown...or whatever. The monitors help a lot to give a good representation of how the mix actually sounds, which I did not have before. So, if I cannot hear a lead part properly now on the monitors, I know on normal audio equipment it will probably be way worse. But, I do still have a way to go.

But thanks for asking.

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Thanx for the rundown man, to be honest I thought your setup was a bit more advanced than that, judging by the good outcome of the recording. I also run a very basic setup, almost the same as yours, except for the monitors.

Vintage Paradise with Tonerider Rocksongs,
I run my guitar through my cube 80 for effects and the sound I like into my interface via recording output,
Roland Duo Capture Ex interface,
EZ drummer,
SX P-bass with Ampeg plugins
Reaper

I haven't done any mixing/Editing/ production on my "Eric" recording, and it clearly shows, and that's apart from my timing and other mistakes.

Next thing I'm getting should be a set of monitors, looked at the M-audio AV40's, but I've also been thinking at splashing out a bit more later on to get something slightly higher up.