Ear For Crime Montage Song

Tutorials, Backstory and Recording Notes:

My friend Michael Markie and I were recording some stuff for one of my classes when It dawned on us that we could have fun writing ridiculous songs, since between the two of us we could effectively play/write all the parts.  We decided it’d be fun to write the most stereotypical, whiny metalcore song we could muster, and this is the result.

At first it was just for fun, but then I though about how people would probably enjoy mixing the tracks themselves.  Long story short, I made tutorials on how I mixed it and am letting anyone give it a shot.

In the future, we plan on doing more generic stereotypes of each metal genre, both to promote myself as an engineer, and to give back to the music community via mixing practice and fun songs.  I’ll make tutorials for each one to show how the mix techniques change from genre to genre and song to song depending on equipment, arrangement etc.

Recording Notes:

All DIs were recorded straight into my True Precision 8 Preamp using the Hi-z inputs.

Guitar was recorded with an Ibanez RG series, with an EMG 81 in the bridge.

Bass was an Ibanez BTB series 5 string.

Drum were all SSD4 Midi with the following instrumentation: Kick 10, Snare 11, Quik Toms 1-4 (More details in the tutorials)

I used Lecto for the amp sim and LeCab with Kaltallens IRs as the cab impulse.
http://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/
http://cabs.kalthallen.de/

Vox were recorded with a Beta 57 into a MobilePre Interface.  Recorded In Micheal’s bedroom.  For the next songs we’re going to be using a slightly better signal chain than that :P
Main Vox – Michael Markie
Bgs – Chris Lucas, David Neyland, Colin Ring (Death Vox)

Tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weK36-fVYjI

http://youtu.be/t56YjAmnUf4

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HEY EVERYBODDDDDDDDDDDY!

So here's our third song for your listening/mixing enjoyment, this time in the style of Municipal Waste/Evile.

The song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARWjUNwuyM


The Walkthrough:  There's some fucked up clicks and shit from some weird internal clocking error with Screenflow.  It wasn't making them when I was recording so I know it's not my PT.  I'll re record it when I get home (I'm out of town) but all the info is there.  This walkthrough is much more thorough than the last two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8Jo6Itv9Q

Download the multitracks + my PT session and mix it yourself: http://goo.gl/FS1Ft

Download the WAV Version: http://goo.gl/rtVJp

Recording Notes:

Drums are SD2+MM, Tempestra Snare and Slate Snare 10

Guitars are a Gibson Explorer (the one in the video) ---> Countryman 85 ---> True Precision 8 ---> HD 192

Bass was a Charvel 3B, same signal chain as the Guitar

Vox were Sm7b ---> True Precision 8 ---> 192

Any questions?  I'd be happy to answer them.

P.S Our future song will have real drums recorded by me, it should be awesome.

Chris Lucas Productions

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