Help with first recording of melodic death metal(placement,panning,eq etc)

Posted on Feb 25, 2009 11:35 am
carpathian
Member Since: Feb 25, 2009

Hi I have ableton live 7LE and am experimenting with recording tunes influenced by bands like skyfire,imperanon,insomnium,dark tranquility.

My problem I have only ever really just played guitar and all this is new to me.

I am assembling clips and scenes of guitar riffs,keyboard etc.

I would be grateful for any help in where to set various instruments in the mix

for guitar,bass,synth drums,vocals,atmospheric effects.

eg i think do you have two guitars panned hard left and right (7 o clock and 5 o clock)

also suggested EQ settings for various instruments and should I use filters,
I think I read you want the highs and lows for the drums, lows for the blasts on the kick and highs for the hats etc,

what about the bass,synth,vocals,guitars.

What about compression

what I want is to be able to put all my clips together as an arrangement do what ever needs to be done then be able to upload them for comments on fine tuning,

hopefully this will allow me to develop a sort of workflow of my own plus it will avoid me uploaidng an awful sounding mess hehe peoples stuff on here is so professional and all the tech terms I am hoping I can suss it all out. it remimds me of when I first used photoshop 10 years ago except 10 x more confusing.

any other good resources for mixing/recording this type of music



My equipment is live 7 LE
bass drum mania and big fish audio drum samples/loops in the styles I want.
A epi Les paul guitar and pocket pod
an m audio oxygen 2 controller and some behrnger ms 16 monitors. im using a G4 Emac 1Ghz 768 ram

ps I have the book making music with live by dave hill

Thanks for your help in advance. best wishes......paul

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