Mad Bro Lovin' up in this thread.

lol that was nuts Eric

I loev yuo guise

We lurb u 2, Geofferz.

My computer's fan spooled up while I was reading this... maybe I shouldn't try it.

And I'm running it off the internal drive on a laptop, to boot. Let's just say I had to restart Logic to bounce the mix. It's saving grace is that it's at 44.1. There's enough instances of Decapitator to bring at least one CPU core to a screeching halt. It's on all busses, almost all tracks have G Channel...

Thanqs! I plan on finishing this in my spare time; the difficult part is lining everything up. If I really want to go nuts, I'll probably replace the toms, to be honest, or at least layer them up with another sample, reamp the bass through a real rig, and generally get the thing sounding as gigantor as possible whilst still having clarity and separation. The sources already sound good, so there's nothing to fix.

I like the tone of the snare once it's been clobbered, but I think in the mix it could punch more; I'll probably blend in an uncompressed track under it. Vocals are a work in progress. Probably gonna be a lot of automation on those, but that's typical.

I'm assuming the guitars are the ? The guitarist in my metal band got the new firmware update, which adds the power section modeling from the II, and he says- and he's not one to exaggerate- it's like buying a whole new amp. Also, he had to re-dial in all his tones.

To the peanut gallery- this is what you can do with plain old EZDrummer.

This sounds completely huge. Love it.

Coming along nicely.

I won't try to mix it myself, as i would probably just 'accidentally' lose the clean vox...

I like the rest of it though, nice guitars and drums, and i like the way you have got the parts stuck together. Doesn't really play like an almost six-minute tune(meant as a good thing, coming from someone with as short an attention span as myself).

Snaxo's version is fucking filthy, eh? Drums are wildly crunchy. I also dig the vocal treatments there, high drama(i.e. fittingly, for the epic rawx).

Who stickied this?

Beats the trousers off of me. Maybe joey? I'mma get some foodstuffs now. Garda's taking some time off gigging so I can get to this.

hmm, I dids not sticky this......

I'll unsticky it though.

Actually starting to work on this again now that I have the Hackintosh up and running. I'll see what I can make it do.

I got Waves Eddie Kramer Master Tape and put it on every channel, Waves SSL G Channel on everything...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13184331/MCTest4.mp3

I know there's bits I genuinely need to go back and fix (like the filter sweep before the end) and I'm not sure if it rocks or sucks as a whole; I keep tinkering with it and think I may have gone too far.

I dug it.

Mega glue going on here. I think the whole thing's a touch dark though... and the guitars are a little 3k heavy for my tastes.

The snare wound up pretty dark, and having the bass high up in the mix doesn't brighten it up overall, that's for sure. Striking a balance between the guitars and synth was kinda tough; the guitars were actually getting lost at points behind everything else! I probably did bring the upper mids up a fair bit just to make 'em cut, and pulled the synths back some. I kinda erred on the side of sheer mass here.

Kick, snare and toms I buffed up liberally with my own samples. Bass got duplicated, one track went to SVX, the other went to a modeled 808 for dirt and IIRC Waves LA-2A for additional punishment, with both bussed down to a group and mono-ed. (Logic defaults to stereo groups; I'll swear there was a subtle difference- tighter, somehow.)

Lotsa panning stuff going on with the vocals, a lot of it subtle, and a fair bit of distortion as well, some subtle, some really blatant. A bunch of automation on the reverb send, too.

Guitars got hit pretty hard with Decapitator on the E setting, which wound up really obviously un-smooth on its own, but evens out in the mix. Adds a nice je ne sais quoi. I used Space Designer, the impulse 'verb in Logic Pro, for some room sound on there.

Fuking badass dude. Ima send it off to my singer right now.