It's hard to describe the sound of this unique band from Frankfurt, Germany. Musically this band is a mixture between Haste the Days smashing hardcore vibe and the lightweight positive melodies especially in the earlier albums of August Burns Red. Although it's definitely more Metal than Hardcore. I'm not very familiar with genres anyway. I tried to keep the track clean although preserving some of this hardcore atmosphere and I have to admit that mixing wise I was slightly influenced by the album "Know Hope" by The Color Morale (I listened to it nearly every day that time). Since this was my first full production (recording, programming, mixing, mastering all done by me) I highly appreciate feedback (especially on frequency balance, as I got new monitors last week). The whole production was only done in Studio One 2 Producer and no third party plugins were used. If you read this and are a Presonus employee, please send me a gift card or something for mentioning your DAW ;)
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We Live We Breathe - Values 2014

Von Kamelen

I found these old recordings from 2011 my friends from Surprise Surprise (https://www.facebook.com/surprisecore) had sent me, to remix them (listen to the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-GmkSWe9W4). At that time I was pretty horrible at mixing (even more than today) so the original "remix" never was published. I always wanted to redo this song and I finally found time to do it. The drums were really well recorded and turned out pretty good, bass guitar was also pretty good to fix and even the voice (I am not a fan of fry screams without doubling) could be integrated into the mix. But I had a hard time to get the guitars to a level, where you could actually listen to them. Please never use to much distortion! It does not sound good. Anyways, for the level of production it turned out pretty well. Please check them out since they are bringing out an album (probably this year) which was recorded mixed and mastered in a real studio and they are the best German live act I've seen until this day. If you have the chance, go see them!

Lukas Laufenberg