Hextall - "seven" - Preview - Hardcore/metal/(Terror, Firstblood etc.)

[Dwarfgrinder]

Good friends of mine have been looking to record a Promo track for distribution at local shows and on the internet in order to get their name out. I really enjoy what they do so I decided to step up and for "educational" purposes try my best shot at giving them a free track. Before we start recording we went through a couple things together and we all agreed that it must be dirt cheap and it must keep the real in your face, jam space , punch in the throat vibe that we get when its being played live.

So i made a quick mockup of the drums and the guitars as a preview before we start recording. I tried to nail a particular live space sound. This is huge practice for me as i never used this many reverb tricks and fx tracks in my life.

I recorded a live session of the song and tabbed all the drums by ear and tried to get that crazy snare this drummer uses. I might have to get samples of it because its a 13" snare, not a piccolo but not a standard size, the real snare sounds so loud and tight it hurts.

Plz bash away. Plz point where i could use more or less verb, or how i could make this model sound even more "real". TY!

Oh ya its only a 1min sample because I didn't figure the entire song out by ear yet so i just sampled something that we could hear all the drum pieces and guitars.

[jrod9900]

Yo yo, cool sound. I dig the guitar sound. Probably the biggest thing for me is the snare. I don't feel the sound fits the genre. Probably get a little more bottom end out of the kick drum too.

Good luck!

Jrod

[Dwarfgrinder]

Does the recording sound fake ? Thats my biggest worry. Ty for the comment, i knew probably not many people would post because its just a drum, a guitar and a very simple track mockup. I'm trying to make it sound as aggressive as the live setting. God i gotta get me that snare sample, no one would believe the crack that thing has.

[jasonl28806]

Actually sounds really good IMO, can't wait to hear it with the real snare sample. Also, a bass line might help to make those drums sound more realistic.

[Dwarfgrinder]

Yeh im just going to wait for the guitarist and bassist to come track their shit because I can't play what this bassist plays on this song, its like wierd "hardcore version of rancid" bass runs...Sounds cool though but i might have to talk him down to a couple well placed runs instead of a too many useless ones.

[saker killz]

nice i really dig the guitar tone and double kick tones sounds very clean but i think it could use some tighting