Velvet Revolver's \"Slither\"

jer

Myself and Ne1roc recorded the guitars on this. Both of us used a gnx4.

His leads and my rhythm were applied over a drum and bass backing track.

Finally ne1roc's singer layed down the vocals. (also thru the gnx4)

Mixed in Sonar 5. Mastered in Audition 2.0

Any and all feedback welcome.

We hope you'll enjoy this one.

Http://www.jerslair.com/files/music/Slither_jer_final.wma

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Tal Rules

All I can say is this is AWESOME!!!! :shock:

Do yourself a favor and take a listen 8)

Great Job
JER and NE1ROC

Coooooool 8) 8) 8)

jer

Thanks Tal!!!!!


(where's that smite button? I know I left it here somewhere....)

ne1roc

Jer,
Listened to it in the car on the way home from work. Great job on the mix! 8)

Thanks alot Tal.

SydeKiK

That KiX A$$ dudes!!!!

bababoey

<div style="displaynone">fiogf49gjkf0d</div>That was great! shock

Nice job guys

GregPorter

I will say the guitars and vocals are awesome (sonicly and musically). The rhythm track needs some help. I know you used a backing track so it would be impossible to feature the snare and kick a bit more. The high end on the cymbals is right where it should be.

Through my studio monitors it sounded like there was almost nothing below about 200hz. I haven't run it through anything with a graph so I am not going swear to that freq.

What mic did you use for the vocals. It sounds like a nice studio setup. What effects did you use there? A comp and a touch of reverb? The singer has a good voice and the recording is very well done.

jer

I’ll let ne1roc answer on the microphone, I don’t know that. I believe there was a touch of reverb on the GNX4 for vocals but dry otherwise. In Sonar I added a little bit of reverb with the Wizzoo plugin Small Studio preset I believe. PSP Vintage Warmer was also used on the vocals. The entire mix had a 4 band compressor and stereo widening added to it via Audition 2.0. Also the “cd master” preset was used with Ozone 3.08

I hear ya on the drums/bass. I sure wish we’d had a better backing to use…..

ne1roc

Thanks Greg!
For the vocals, I used an Audio Technica 3035 Condensor Mic , thru a Presonus Blue Tube Preamp and Yamaha GC2020 Compressor to the GNX4 with a touch of plate reverb from the GNX4 effects. It was my first attempt at recording vocals and I was quite happy with the results.

Jer's mastering skills really made everything sparkle!

I agree about the backing track lacking some low end. I wonder if adding a real bass to the mix would help out a little?

GregPorter

ahh... I was thinking you used the gnx preamp. I was wondering how you got the nice tube sound.

I would say, adding a real bass wouldn't hurt anything. You could also eq the crap out of the backline. I would suggest bringing all but the featured freqs (cymbals >5k, snare ~2k, kick ~3.15k & <70) down quite a bit, then adding some level to the whole thing. You might be able to use the compressor to help. We have stuck a noise gate on stuff like that before. The gates expose a bit of noise when they open and sometimes that gives the drums and bass a bit of a 'click' so they have some presence in the upper freqs.

Your other option is to grab a midi kit and play a track.

ponq

AWESOME...man that was fun listening too!!

Very nice stuff.

I noticed the rythm guitar drop at 4:01 for a few secs...I don't know the original version of the song, so I don't know if it's intended to be like that.

Anywayz...nice sound...love the BT hehe

care to share what patch you used (or what patch you based the guitars on?)

ne1roc

Thanks Ponq! I don't know what patch Jer used for the rhythm but I did use the \"Slash\" patch from the MFX series. (no bt on the guitar)

glider007

That was really great! I liked the tones, mixing, guitars and vocals...what else is left??? Great job- It is really very verrrry good 8)


I guess now you need to post more Jer and NE1Roc!