Finally released my solo EP (Genre Metalcore)

On June 30 2012 16:57 Greenhit wrote:
Sounds alot like Stray from the Path.

On June 30 2012 18:29 Azerbaijan wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of the genre but I gave it a listen and I think it sounds really good. The audio quality seems top notch, can tell you worked hard on it.

On June 30 2012 18:29 Azerbaijan wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of the genre but I gave it a listen and I think it sounds really good. The audio quality seems top notch, can tell you worked hard on it.

On June 30 2012 18:36 MaGariShun wrote:

seconded. I also don't really like the genre anymore, but since I know how hard it is to produce something like this, hats off to you. The guitars have quite a "djenty" feel to them sometimes, which I like, considering that every other metalcore band just does the same three whatever-their-guitars-are-tuned-to-minor arpeggios in a different order over and over again.

On June 30 2012 20:42 Xiron wrote:
I'm not into the genre at all, yet I think you did a great, professional looking job on the sound editing. It's really clean. Love it.

On June 30 2012 21:20 Elsid wrote:
Really hate the genre with a passion so i'm not gonna comment on the music itself, however the production did seem quite good. Only thing i'd really worry about is the dynamic range isn't really too big , was the recording compressed much? Anychance you could detail a little bit about the production? ^^

On June 30 2012 21:40 HESiTATED wrote:


Yes I compressed it quiet hard to get the volume up, I went back and fourth but ended up with this. The thing is that I feel that I know a bit more now, so when the times come and I feel like recording again, it probably will end up a bit better. But I'm quiet happy with the results, but I had to narrow the time down, otherwise I could end up remix etc for a couple of more months. But Instead I can take a break now, and after a while start to wright and record new stuff.
Can you please ask more specific what you want to know, each song got about 30 channels with loads of plugins etc. So it would take a long time to go over them all

On June 30 2012 21:56 sekalf wrote:
I usually dont listen to the genre but I really liked it. Sounded very professional actually.
Also, the EP length is 13:37.

On June 30 2012 21:44 Elsid wrote:


Oh of course sorry ^^ . What microphones did you use for drums? Are you happy with the amount of compression or do you think it'd work better with more dynamics? How many layers did you use for the guitars normally? How many mics did you use for each guitar take and what microphones?

On June 30 2012 23:04 HESiTATED wrote:


Well, first off I'm recording this in my basement so I have cheated with drum samples and guitar amp simulation. So instead of miking up an amp I have lined my guitar (LTD MHB-401) in to the audio card (emu-0202). And since I'm guitarist/vocalist/pianist I chose to record the midi tracks for the drums with my midi keyboard and after that I've worked around a lot with different drum samples to get the sound that I want and felt fitting. To the vocals I'm using a se electronic 2200a microphone through a Alto s-6 mixer.
The thing with the compressor is that I lose a bit of volume dynamic but I instead gained a lot of volume both in the audio level and also to the body, kind of hard to express. Think you need to hear it to understand, It forces the audio to be even more stereo than it is. Kind a like you would have a balloon field with water, and you pressed it in the middle until it got even pushed out to the sides Like I said, hard to describe

Ask more if you like, and I will try to answer them

On June 30 2012 23:33 Elsid wrote:


Oh yes of course I was wondering how you got that guitar tone by mic-ing a combo/cab makes much more sense now not a massive fan of that tone myself but it does work well within that genre ^^. Was just curious about your use of compression because when I'm mixing I tend to go super light on the compression but then again we do play totally different genres

On June 30 2012 23:51 HESiTATED wrote:


What music do you play your self? I'm in to nearly everything

On July 04 2012 17:41 Megakenny wrote:


Clicked because of this, I fucking love Stray from the Path.


This is REALLY good though. Keep it up.

On July 07 2012 20:44 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
I also find this genre quite detestable and boring because it seems like almost all artists and bands just rip eachother off and do nothing new or interesting.

That said, this was pretty good. Honestly it wasn't very memorable to me and it's most likely not something that I would download, but I also wouldn't skip it if it came up in an online radio or something of that nature. I didn't like the vocals that much (they reminded me a bit of Shadows Fall) the screams didn't have that much power to them IMHO and the cleans were somewhat whiny at times. The guitar rhythm parts didn't do that much to catch people's attention with some sick riffs or anything of that sort, which is kinda sad IMHO. The drums sounded kind of... off? Though you did say you used samples so that's alright. One thing I did like is that you did not put 10 breakdowns on this EP, a mistake many metalcore bands make nowadays.

That's my criticism. Honestly I hope you'll keep writing music, maybe get some better gear or some other talented people to work with and I'm sure you could do great. This was honestly better than most of today's metalcore that I've heard, and when considered that you wrote and performed/programmed this by yourself... that's quite a feat to outperform 4-member or 5-member bands.

Overall I give this EP a 6/10 rating and I hope that you decide to post more of your future work here, I'm positive that you can do better. ^^

On July 08 2012 03:59 Canas wrote:
I'll listen to it in a bit, even though I fucking despise metalcore (I'm more of a death metal guy) to give you the opinion of someone who may not be very interested in it purely from what genre it's labeled as.

On July 08 2012 06:40 Canas wrote:
Alright, so I listened to it, and I didn't like it (obviously, like I said, I hate metalcore), however, as a lot of other people have said, the production is quite good, the audio quality is much higher than I'd expect from an EP released by some random guy. And on top of that, you did it solo, so that's very, very impressive.

I'll try and criticize the music, but again, I like death metal, so I'm not really sure what makes a good metalcore song.
The vocals just felt weak a lot of the time, even by metalcore standards, try going a bit deeper with the growling/screaming/whatever you want to call it, and the clean vocals sound pretty inconsistent, at some points they sound just as good as I'd expect from some big label metalcore band, and sometimes they just completely miss, but I guess that's just more of a practice makes perfect thing.
The music itself seemed a bit repetitive, especially the first song, imo.

Afraid I can't really give much more criticism (sorry), and what I've said here is probably way off, too. All that said however, I think you should definitely keep at it, as it sounds much better than a lot of other metalcore, especially if you can find a group of people to work together with, as it'll take a lot of pressure of you doing everything on your own.

On July 04 2012 17:41 Megakenny wrote:


Clicked because of this, I fucking love Stray from the Path.


This is REALLY good though. Keep it up.

On July 08 2012 16:38 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:


Same here

The vocals seemed a bit overwhelmed by the music and could use a bit more power and drive behind them, which was mentioned in the thread. Other than that, good quality and I hope to hear more in the future