Elcubano wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2024 09:52 CET
Paramnesia – Occams Krzr
This is very modern metal and right up my alley. I’m a big fan of bands like Meshuggah, Periphery, and others.
The intro is fantastic; I love the sounds you’ve used. The bass tone is excellent and sets a solid foundation for the rest of the track.
You’ve clearly mastered the genre. The rhythm guitar sounds superb, drop G tuning, I believe? Likely a baritone guitar or a 7/8-string.
The riffs are incredible, with hints of Fear Factory or Gojira in places.
The bass tone complements the rhythm guitar perfectly (I’ll have to try this plugin).
The only thing missing is vocals to add nuance to the track.
This is great composition! I’d love to know more about how you mixed the guitars. did you use a multiband compressor for the palm mutes, for example? I might need to check out Nolly’s tutorials too.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it Periphery and Monuments are my favorite bands by a long shot but I've been really getting into Spirit Box and Sleep Token lately too Tesseract also has some really good tracks too.
I would be happy to share some info on the mix, the tuning is drop G# on a 7 string for starters really good ear on that! As for the bass fitting the guitars that took a very long time to achieve Djinn bass is modeled after a Dingwall bass and at this point my version is quite outdated they have put out some much better plugins including Djinn bass 2 and Nolly even released his own plugin so make sure you look around before settling on one!
For some more specifics on each though I'll start with guitars. All rhythm parts are quad tracked which helps give it that thicker sound. I split up my guitars as such, I have a rhythm bus with 2 busses going into it one being my Neural DSP Nolly amp head and the other Neural DSP Omega. On each Amp head bus I run a compressor into each amp as well as automating an octave pedal on and off for certain parts to give a bit more character mostly when I am using single notes but not the faster complex parts. I use a plugin called Dr Drive which is a digital version of the Horizon Devices Precision Drive pedal (basically a souped up tube screamer) I highly recommend picking this one up I believe it's free. Then each amp head is setup to compliment one another the Nolly head (I believe its a modded 6505) is the fizz and more distorted tone and the Omega has more body and mids to it. So for each amp head I have a left and right panned guitar track so I run Neural in stereo mode. From there it all goes into my guitar bus which uses one instance of GGD Zilla cabs this helps to cut down immensly on processing power, then I have a bunch of EQing using Slate CS-EQ, FG-S and FG-N this stage is really about dealing with any frequencies that are out of control such as 3k, 4k, I cut around 600 Hz for the bass to push through a bit and roll back a little 200Hz then boost around 12k and 8k for a bit more sheen. I have a Pro-Q 3 after that with a multiband around 180Hz and a Q of 5.8 to help deal with some extreme palm mute bloom, cut around 1dB of 330Hz with a Q of 1 then notch out some whistle frequencies between 1.6k to 3k and finally a high shelf around 5k and a low pass at 11.5k 24dB/oct. I do have another multiband compressor Pro-MB which is dealing with a much wider area from 53Hz to 235Hz centered at 117.68Hz. And finally I'm using Ozone Imager only about 10% to just give a bit more width to the guitars. Thats pretty much it other than that if you are going to go for this sound just really make sure the guitars are really on time if you are going to quad track!
As for bass I mostly took Nolly's approach and just tweaked a lot of the EQ until I felt it worked with my guitar and drum sound. I used Djinn into a Distressor to give it some more grit then into Neural DSP Parallax, gave the low end some heavy compression for a consistent bottom, then about 0.6 on distortion for both Mid and High. I maxed out the high shelf on the built in EQ, then gave a boost to 250, 500 and 1500. The bus itself I have a TR5 White Channel by IK Multimedia going and boost the Low at 75.5 Hz at 2dB, Low Mid at 200Hz at 1 dB and the Hi Mid at 1.2kHz at 1.5 dB, then a bunch of EQ moves mostly copied from what Nolly does to his bass since he also uses a Dingwall I know I've done some slight modifications here but I can't recall those. It's a great starting point to copy what he did and just make it your own! Then I use FabFilter Pro MB which is sidechained to the kick drum and is a high pass filter aroun 160 Hz this is just to help the kick drum really punch through but still allow the bass to fill up the sound everywhere else. I then used soothe2 to just help cleanup some noise off the high end of the bass.
I should also note that I use automation to adjust the guitar volume to boost 1dB in the breakdown sections, then adjust the bass volume and the room mic and reverb level on the drums constantly through the song on each different part based on the general vibe I was going for I find pulling back in the verses and pushing things up in the choruses really helps the track to feel like its breathing more and amp those sections up I think dynamics are really important in songwriting, having room mics and drum reverb change is a great way to acheive that, the bass going up and down was more of a taste thing really, sometimes it took away a bit too much from the guitars more so on the faster more technical section.
I do wish the song had vocals, however I have been unsuccesful in finding someone to fill that role up till now and I don't believe I am capable of doing it myself.. not to mention I don't have a space to work at it hopefully soon we can get someone to fill that role and finish this song and a bunch of other tracks. Hopefully this helps if you have any other questions feel free to ask!
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