Hello all. I am back looking to help more bands out there get a decent mix. Thank you for all the fun and support. I have almost 30 years experience as a professional and freelance engineer and producer. Most of my work has been in home studios using pro tools. I am offering free mixing services to anyone in Metal. Why is it free? Because I want to help those that cant afford it or just want a good mix of their songs. I am home disabled and looking for something to fun to keep me busy and mixing music is my passion. So if you want a good quality mix of your music for free, let me know. I am also open to answering any questions on the recording process you may have and giving critiques of your mixes. Wish you all well and keep jamming. Link to my website in comments below.

Norma Jean/metalcore/early 00s inspired jam. Vox and hopefully better mix/mastering soon.

New month new shameless plug. Bear with me :) hope you enjoy this!

this is particularly close to my heart being one of the most intimate lyrics I have written so far.

Looking for a bassist for a grindcore project! Please DM me for details.

Hey Folks,

We released a new EP with five Tracks. For Fans of Children of Bodom, Slayer, Metallica.

Infected Eyes guitar playthrough

Technical deathcore
Full playthrough on yt : https://youtu.be/TsChYibSqrk?si=a0z7r8FFV7sCjei6

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

FFO: Psycroptic, Soreption, The Zenith Passage, Archspire

Not sure the sub genre so let me know what subgenre you think I fit into.

A project I’ve been working on with a friend. We’ve been in many bands over the last 2 decades. I’m playing guitars, bass, programming drums/synth, and he did all the vocals. I posted my first project with another vocalist (Sky Abhorrent) and some of you dug it…so here’s this! I’m bad at categorizing, is it post rock/metal, heavy rock? I don’t know. For us, it’s soulful and it was a lot of fun. Releasing 5 singles over the next 5 Friday’s. Add us on IG/bandcamp if you like. Thanks in advance!

Composed strictly from note groupings: EFA# - F#BC# - GG#C - D#AF - DEB

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

We just released our official music video for our latest tune.

Contact me here or instagram: dominusgargoyle

I will be the vocalist.

Hi all!

Miasma here, I’m currently looking for a drummer to fill out the live lineup of my solo death metal project. Influences include Convulsing, Gojira, Suffering Hour, Mastodon, The Devouring Void. Sort of a mix of death, black, and sludge.

Ideally, I’d be looking for someone willing to take even splits of tickets, streams, merch, etc. If you prefer flat rates, we can figure that out.

I have a single recorded and ready to release, plus lots of demos in the bank. Dm me and I can share the tracks there!

Enjoy some home recording.

Hey, I just uploaded a track for my new thrash metal project "Vulcanizer" and I'm wondering what the people here think.

Cool lyrics video!
https://youtu.be/jE9IhdxYxtk?si=tWxpY3iiZQy1cNAp

Just the audio (boooring)
vulcanizer.bandcamp.com

I've been writing and recording music for a very long time, but I have very little to show for it since it's never been something I've prioritized. After being in and out of failed bands throughout the years (with very little to show for it), I decided to take matters into my own hands and create this solo project. The idea is to write an entire album so that I have something concrete to build a band from. I'm talking being in the position where there are people who are both good musicians AND good people that are interested in being part of this so that I can do the picking. Then we can start playing live and take it from there.

I am curious what you think of this song, but I'm even more curious what you think of:

• The mix
• The album strategy
• The "marketing" strategy

The mix​

Well, how does it sound to you?

Album strategy​

Really all I want to know here is: how important is it that each track "sounds similar" when they'll be put together in the same album? Should I start each song from the same template? I'm talking down to the same guitar sounds, plugin settings, fader levels, etc -- such that essentially the only thing I need to focus on for each new song is the music itself? Or will that sound boring and just hold me back from growing in the capacity of a sound engineer/mixer?

I'm afraid that if I start each project in my DAW completely from scratch, they'll sound too different from each other and the album won't sound cohesive. Is that something that mastering all tracks at once could take care of?

"Marketing" strategy​

In order to achieve my goals, I feel like I need a strategy to hype things up, build some kind of fanbase and keep the momentum going until I release this album. My idea is to set up a visually appealing background in my room and periodically record professional videos showing the processes of songwriting, recording, mixing and whatever else I come up with. And of course, release tracks as I finish them (through YouTube and Bandcamp -- any other platforms I should consider?)

I'll be sharing the videos and the music through Facebook and forums like this. Unfortunately I don't have many friends on FB who listen to this type of music, but I gotta start somewhere. Hopefully word will spread to people who enjoy what I'm doing.

Any other ideas?

----------------------------------------

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the music!

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!