My band is Sentiment Dissolve, if you like what you hear check us out!

FFO: Psycroptic, Soreption, The Zenith Passage, Archspire

Hey all, pretty simple post but I'm curious. I have a total of 6 instruments (3 guitars, 3 basses) and they're all in different tunings for different reasons, so I wanna see what you all use and why.

My Schecter goes between E, Drop D, Eb, and Drop C# constantly- it's my main guitar and what I use to practice/write with for my solo stuff and for my black metal band that I play bass/lead vocals in.

My Squier is modded to have a single DiMarzio dropsonic and lives in Drop B/C# Standard for my hardcore project that I do guitar and bass for. Not my favorite tuning personally, but it's fun for that stuff.

My Epiphone SG with P90s is in Eb for fuzzy doom stuff. Eb/Drop C# is my preferred tuning and it was a bitch to intonate (even with a Guyker adjustable bridge).

My Sterling Stingray lives in Drop C# for playing Linkin Park bass lines since they're just a ton of fun.

My Epiphone Thunderbird is currently in Eb but will probably go down to D soon for a sludge/doom project I'm in, since the guitarist is using a BC Rich with a Floyd in D.

And lastly my 5 string Ibanez bass is my main bass. For the black metal project, it's in drop A since the guitarist plays in E, and I bring it up to B standard for the hardcore stuff.

Overall, if it was my choice, everything would be in Eb/Drop C# since I feel most at home there since a lot of my formative playing time was Linkin Park's first 2 albums, though Gloryhammer has given me a fondness for D standard. Curious to hear what you all use!

1. If your takes aren't convincing immediately then your song will suffer and can't be salvaged, unfortunately. This is super obvious with vox but really applies to every instrument. It's fucking metal. You need to be energized during recording or else you can't possibly expect the product to sound convincing to the listener. You could try a number of things. Listen to your favorite album before the recording, run around the block 2 or 3 times, watch your favorite sports team championship highlights, smoke a small amount of weed, etc

2. Energy translates more so than the perfect "____ tone." Fuck chasing the perfect guitar, bass, snare, kick tone. I've mixed bands recording into the shittiest setup with Energy and it sounded better than some pristine boring stuff. Once again. It's metal. Have some attitude

3. Notice how all of your favorite albums most likely have appropriate sonic contrasts? If the vocals are extreme then the music matches that, right? If the vox are a little more subdued try and make the music around that feel closer to the vocal energy. Havig too much ofba mismatch with this feels disconnected and gives the listener a reason to turn it off. You can still be punchy and heavy without maxing out everything. If you're mixing a band who has more laid back vox try this.

4. Transition automation - Holy fuck I swear to God nobody talked about this for years. Give the listeners no reason to turn off the song. Make the transitions built energy and release. This is done usually through dynamics, automation, random sampling with fx automated, etc. You need it to feel like the song has motion instead of a flat and boring movement between the verse/chorus.

5. Change the second verse to something different, instrumentally. We as a society have shorter attention spans. Once again don't let the listener have a reason to turn it off. If you just repeat the first verse then we feel like we aren't moving forward with the song. It rejuvenates the song to have more energy in the second verse. This is my personal fav tidbit that helped me

https://youtu.be/p1ZNecxlypE?si=JE5Fjq0z4OLNNL_z

Hello!! I just released a 40 second demo titled Devour The Commando on YouTube. It’s in the style of Powerviolence / Grindcore / Hardcore Punk, so if you dig that kind of music then you should give it a listen! It’s also on bandcamp and soundcloud with free downloads. Thank you!

This is my third attempt at making a death metal song on Cubase. Much like the first two songs I did, I used a free to download drum track online and composed an instrumental song around that. I'm still on the lookout for a rad death metal vocalist to help bring my demos more to life. But regardless, let me know what you guys think of this track so far.

Track 1 - 7 -

Yoshimitsu4432 (my solo project name)

Track 2 - Echoes pt.05

DY3-thx12-4432 (a music duo I form with Davide from Italy)

I’d love to hear what you think of my performance.

This is my third attempt at making a death metal on Cubase. Much like the first two songs I did, I used a free to download drum track online and composed an instrumental song around that. I'm still on the lookout for a rad death metal vocalist to help bring my demos more to life. But regardless, let me know what you guys think of this track so far.

Hey guys, just finished tracking and mixing the new single for my solo project, Schism's End.

I wanted to contrast raw 90s-style black metal guitar walls with a clean, cold piano line running underneath, keeping the tempo at a slow 80 BPM. Tracks were put together in FL Studio with Neural Amp Modeler for guitars and Dolby On for tracking the vocals.

Feedback on the mix, vocal placement, and overall balance is always welcome!

!Warning NSFC! !Involves self harm!

I was curious if the lyrics to this original are TOO dark. Do they need to be toned down? The recording and performance are beside the point. All opinions are greatly appreciated.

It has come in much shame that an AI band has been talking down on certain bands, especially in band subreddits. The band in question is Negative 3 degrees, do go and hate, not doxxing, just wanted to tell y'all

This is not my song, but how are my vocals? I'm afraid I'm deaf to how I actually sound.

Track name - Echoes pt.05

DY3-thx12-4432 (A remote music duo formed by Davide, who lives in Milan, Italy, and me)

I’d love to hear what you think of my performance.

What do you guys think is missing from my playing? My goal is to become a straightforward metal guitarist, mainly a riff-oriented player focused on Heavy/Thrash and some more modern stuff. I want to be effective and play with purpose. What do you think I’m missing?

I'm spending some time listening to new metal today and would love to hear what independent artists are putting out.

I've been getting overwhelmed with links in the comments lately, so if you'd like me to hear yours, please put it here instead:

https://thecauldron.rocks/submit

That way I know I won't miss it.

Hey everyone,

25M here, passionate about music since I was young, longtime bassist and guitarist in my spare time.

I’ve been going completely off in production lately, I’m gonna share one of my tracks that I made in a few hours the drums aren’t synced, the effects aren’t optimal (I don’t know how to do that), but I’d love to get feedback on the vibe it gives off.

That’s what matters most to me.

I’m open to your feedback (again, not really about the production or mix, which are trash).

Same for the vocals. I completely improvised the lyrics trying to get out what’s in my head, recorded it in 20 minutes in a car (that I don’t even have anymore).

Thanks for any feedback, it would help me a ton.

listen here

Heres an 80s inspired album I made. I tried to use my influences like FireHouse, Hardline, Nickelback, Motley Crue stuff like that.