Band : Kontact
Album : Democide
Song : World Eater

Recorded Mixed and Mastered by Tim Bates @ Attack Studios

World Eater - Kontact

Band: 28 Days
Album: TBA
Song: Push Push

This is the first single to be released by the boys in 28 days for their upcoming new album. keep in touch more tracks and details to come..
Recorded Mixed and Mastered by Tim Bates @ Woodstock and Attack Studios 

Push Push - Radio Edit - 28 Days

Band: I Killed The Prom Queen
Album: NA
Song: Memento Vivere

JJ and Kev from IKTPQ came into Attack Studios to lay down the Drums for their latest track 'Memento Vivere' mid 2012. 
Drum tracks were then sent to Sweden where the rest of the band completed the recording in Chapel Studios with Sam Ryan . 
It was then Mixed in the USA by Jason Suecof
and Mastered by Alan Douches

Memento Vivere - IKTPQ

Drummer Dan Kerby came into Attack Studios late 2012 to record some Drum Videos 

All 3 full videos are available on my YouTube for your viewing and listening pleasure.

This is one of the tracks, 

THIS IS A GENUINE 1 TAKE
Drum sound is ALL NATURAL, 
100% NO SOUND REPLACING or COPY PASTE 

Live - One Take - Raw Natural Drums - Recorded @ Attack Studios

My name it Tim 'Attack' Bates, and this is my version of "OH BABY" for the GearFest- Puremix Contest, which i have done using Protools 9.2 LE with a few outboards tools also.
My first step was to break up the Guitar Stem into 4 separate tracks, (-intro - verse -riff - and -solo)
this allowed for more fexibility with each sections tone, volume and effects. The 4 individual track were then bussed out to there own Stereo bus where i could apply a unique Reverb and Delay to each to help give the parts more character and space in the mix. I fine tuned the eq of the guitars using the Waves Parametric Eq to eliminate some feedback frequencies, and rounded them back into the mx with some API enhancements. just very subtle changes. There are panning changes through out the song, the most interesting to mention is the verse riff which lightly sways from left to right about 20% from center. Also the intro riff is off set 54% to the right and much lower in volume to give the bass and drums more impact when they enter. The solo tone was the hardest part to work with, in my opinion there was too much gain on the amp and it came off a bit harsh.

The drums are fairly straight forward. 
i doubled the kick track, one track is almost raw, the other has a LPF @ 140Htz so as to isolate the low "sub" thud of kick, which will help push the whole mix by the end.
The snare track is also doubled. 1 Gated very harshly and Eq'd the accent the power of the hit. I surged around the 150-240htz area. 
The 2nd snare track is just sitting nicely in the middle, again almost raw, minus a few crap frequencies around 2.3khtz-3k. also added a little more compression just with a C1 compressor.
The OH are untouched, 
however i also did a double track to cut the toms sections out so i could manipulate the toms a little more. All i did with the 'Toms' was push more low end into them with an API plugin. 
The toms were the hardest part of the drums to bring out by far. but the style of music didn't really call for anything more.

The Bass i think was the best sounding part of this recording to begin with. The DI track i used a Sans Amp the drive it more and add some natural compression. The Bass Mic which is more dominant in my mix, just has a low shelf EQ around 100htz, and a boost to 20K, then I've got a light L2 limiter running on both tracks with a long/slow release.

The Vocals sounded great, and we're the most untouched part of my mix. theres a very light expander gate getting rid of some floor noise, and i also pin-pointed and removed some sizzle around 15K-20K. and added a little more body around the 500htz mark.
I've got a stereo buss running some reverb and delays that I've automated to be more and less extreme in certain sections of the song for eg: the first word of each verse has very heavy delay, while the gap leading into the last riff has a more extreme reverb, however i did try to keep all the effects minimal cause I don't think the singer required much to help her.
the whole mix was then ran through a BBE Sonic Maximizer with a light addition to the Process Button, but mainly used for its amazing phase aligning properties       
lastly there is a limiter running on the whole mix no so much for volume but for impact and attack. super fast release, -6 threshold.

Overall i wanted the mix to come across like we were in a martini bar, or jazz club, still very live but clean loud and rich. 
thats about it.
hope you enjoy.

Tim 'Attack' Bates 

GEARFESTPUREMIXCONTEST- Mixed By Tim Attack

AFTER STARTING OUT IN A SMALL FACTORY IN NOBLE PARK, MELBOURNE PRODUCER TIM 'ATTACK' BATES QUICKLY WENT FROM RECORDING 4 TRACK DEMOS TO MAJOR RELEASE ALBUMS. WITH OVER 7 YEARS OF HANDS ON EXPERIENCE RECORDING OUT OF MULTIPLE 'HIGH END' STUDIOS AROUND MELBOURNE , TIM ATTACK HAS EARNT HIMSELF A REPUTATION FOR ACHIEVING THE HIGHEST QUALITY RESULTS, WITH A UNIQUE AND TEXTURED SOUND, INDIVIDUALLY CREATED FOR EVERY CLIENT.

Timmy Attack