Adam Hines - Seperated, hard rock/metal

[Epicurtt]

Hi there, my name is Adam and i recently recorded my first song using Cubase 5.


The gear i used was:
OLP John Petrucci signiture model
Fender 08' Std P Bass
Line 6 Toneport GX
Drummer on Demand

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[Vulconizer]

Okay, the riff was cool.

Since the song is titled "Separated" I'll use that as the theme for my post.

It appears that the frequencies you need to use to define your bass guitar are not separated from those of the kick drum and the guitar.

The kick drum is a bit over-powering by itself. The drums are over-powering. You need to separate them out from the other instruments by carving a little room in them. Try removing about 3 to 6db @ 400hz or so on both the kick and snare. It will give the guitar some room.

Try cutting a bit out of the kick drum somewhere else. Take your EQ, turn on one of the buttons, say around 800 hz, and set the Q at 1.0. Now boost it up on parametric ( not a shelf, if you happen to be using the first or last EQ buttons ) like 9 or 10db. Move it back and forth ( it's called "sweeping" ) until you hear something a bit bad. That's a good place to do some cutting. Turn it down until it's between say -3 or -6db. Sometimes you have to go all the way down -9db or more.

Now head over to your bass guitar. See if that is a good place to maybe give the bass a little boost. You just made some room.

Try that sort of thing on all of your instruments; Sweep the frequencies, listen for the bad stuff, cut it out. Now you have room for other instruments to sit in.

Got to keep 'em separated.

[Epicurtt]

Thanks mate, ill have another crack at it! It's was my first time using Cubase 5 so i was just mucking around with the presets in the EQ and dynamic compressor.
Thanks for the feedback

[Guitarded88]

Hahah i dig this riff!

Is it just me or does that snare sample give it an 80s vibe?

[fHumble fHingaz]

In addition to what Vulc said, I'd just like to add that there seems to be a LOT of high end happening here in the drums (in contrast with the guitars & bass) - particularly noticable in the cymbals - creating a kinda continuous annoying "hisssss" across the track. Sounds like it may be more than just an eq thing - also could be caused by over-compression... You might want to check that out.