LAMB OF GOD "RUIN" COVER - RATE MY MIX?

[Captain Bass]

Bass is my first love and from that I have taught myself a few things on guitar as I did on the drums. Whilst all this was happening I got more and more interested in the recording side of things and started to piece together studio equiptment and learn more about recording techniques (in the background of being a serious bass player)

So I wanted to test my skills as a producer / guitarist / programmer etc, so a friend of mine (who is a metal singer) suggested some covers to start off with.

I chose a classic metal track by Lamb of God called Ruin, because it would be a bloody challenge! and it was! There are 2 tempo and time signature changes, not to mention a drum solo in the middle, and my first guitar solo ever!! (I usually get one of the more than able guitarist folk to do the solo's)

I recorded and produced this all in Cubase 5, all the guitars are actually recorded DI/Clean through my Focusrite Channel Strip with Guitar Rig 4 (to get that metal sound) + a few other plugins to beef up GR4's sound. Bass was also DI'd through the Focusrite. Drums were midi programmed by myself -beat for beat in the matrix edit of cubase, including the drum solo!! (Good old youtube, I found a video of their actual drummer showing you how to play the solo, breaking the parts down) I used the midi to trigger Toontracks Superior Drummer 2.0 and then mixed and mixed and mixed and mixed until I got a close enough metal sound to the original.

I didn't sing on the track (if you can call it singing ha ha)

I hope you guys can appreciate the mix, I know a lot of you will hate metal music but I do like to imagine that many bass players are a lot more musically open minded than many other instrumentalists.

[url="http://soundcloud.com/andy-c-saxton/lamb-of-god-ruin-cover"]http://soundcloud.com/andy-c-saxton/lamb-of-god-ruin-cover[/url]
FREE DOWNLOAD - [url="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10002646/LAMB%20OF%20GOD%20%28COVER%29%20%27RUIN%27.mp3"]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10002646/LAMB%20OF...0%27RUIN%27.mp3[/url]

Here is the original song just so you can see why my guitars are produced the way they are.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmB8lmoqCcg&feature=av2e"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmB8lmoqCcg&feature=av2e[/url]

Edited August 14, 2010 by Captain Bass

[Earbrass]

I've just been A/B ing the two versions you linked to, and though I'm not really a good judge of this sort of music, I think your version sounds better - more full and heavy -though that may be partly down to whatever YouTube do to their audio.

[xilddx]

Jesus, you are one talented m*****f***er aren't you! Amazing!

However, I found the production very tiring to listen to, I had to give up after about 50 secs. The guitars are painful at normal listening levels on the cans - piercing high freqs, and it seems like the loudness is to the max. Other than that, superb!

[Captain Bass]

Thanks I guess? I wouldn't usually mix guitars like that but I actually wanted to honour the sound of the original guitars, if you listen to the original and A/B them.

[Machines]

Pretty damned good. Maybe a little treble heavy on the snares but I may be talking crap (like usual) .

[johnny_frog]

sounds pretty bloody good to me mate