Music from the dark past

  • BayouTexan

    You ask for my old sins and want to listen to my examples for bad mixing? Really?

    Here we go =O:D:D


    I searched for my original "Black Metal" cassette demo tapes I talked about, but only could find songs that are already copied to a demo CD. This songs had been kind of a transition between recording only with cassette players and trying to add fx and kind of "mix" within a thing called DAW.


    Here is a "better" track from this time (late 1990s). I still like the part in the middle:


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    This song is even older and has still very bad casio keyboard drums. Guitars had been recorded on cassette and later copied into Magix Music Maker (I think).


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    But hey, because it is (sometimes pretty happy :S sounding) "Black Metal" I can always say, the ugly sound and bad mix was INTENDED 8)8)8)

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  • Dang Ibot, I didn't really expect you to post them. The guitar track in Black Kingdom sounds just like my Distortion pedal dimed with the amp turned off! Maybe turn down the pedal a bit and put some bass EQ in... say around 100hz with a Q of .1 :P


    I take your critiques as a gentle nudge in the right direction, friend! If I don't ask then I won't learn. ;)

    Larry Mar @ Lonegun Studios. Neither one famous yet.

  • Early mixing aside i really enjoyed Black kingdom of the north ?

  • surprising suggestion.


    overall, I feel all the instruments are too dull and suffer from muddy low mids and undefined/overlapping bass.

    LOL. It was based off a similar comment he made to me in another post. It was done as a jab (joke). Ibot got it. :)


    I agree with your assessment though.

    Larry Mar @ Lonegun Studios. Neither one famous yet.