Chris Lucas - Generic Metalcore Song with Tutorials and Raw files!

Edit: I re uploaded the raw tracks, same link.


Raw Tracks: http://goo.gl/mjfsd
Mirror: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3348188/You Die I Cry Raw Wavs w_synth.zip
Tempo is 160bpm

My friend Michael (played all the guitars) 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 —> Avid HD I/O 32bit floating point 44.1khz

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
Main Vox – Michael Markie
Bgs – Chris Lucas, David Neyland, Colin Ring (Death Vox)

Tutorials:





Have fun! Go nuts!

Next in line is a tech death song

 

No problem!

Yeah sure, the lyrics are terrible as fuck on purpose.uke:

You broke my heart (and threw it away)
Tore me apart (no words left to say)
You broke my heart (and threw it away)
Tore me apart (no words left to say)

Bitch, why did you steal the key to my heart. You're the glue that kept me from falling apart

I struggle for air and reach for the sky
I yearn for death, I can't win this fight
Hide your face in a veil of sorrow
You die tonight I cry tomorrow

You fucked my life (and left me alone)
You twist the knife (and cut to the bone)
You fucked my life (and left me alone)
You twist the knife (and cut to the bone)

Repeat pre chorus and chorus

 

The raws have about 230 downloads. Let's hear some mixes!

 

Ah, ok my bad!

 

Everything is audible but doesn't seem glued together all that much. Some elements stick out too much for my taste, but you're headed in the right direction for sure . I gotta listen to it at home before I give you more specific advice ^_^

 

Ill check it and listen to sicrokers mix today. Thanks for letting me know.

 

I just downloaded the whole thing without issue from that link. Not sure what's up .

SickRoker, the drums in your mix are cool but I feel like the cymbals need to fill out the air a bit more. That and the guitars could pushed up a bit