What say you.....my stonerrock brethren? (Tone Junkie Edition)

[core9]

After much delay we are finally releasing our 2nd album.  Give me some feedback, let me know what you guys think.
I also posted this in Gen Disc, but this is a different crew.......

Thanks for your valuable time, buds.

[spookstrickland]

I really dug the first one.  Sounded good, right balance of everything.

[giantchris]

Mix sounds good on both speakers and headphones here.  Everything is clearly audible and definitely solid tones. 

[tossom]

^ What they said   Sounding good sir!

[everdrone]

its really awesome! I like the slow doomy musicianship.  It would be a fun song to riff out on, very hypnotic and Sleep induced.  I like the harmonies in singing, alice in chains like.

as constructive criticism, it is a great demo, I feel the guitars are too compressed with not enough dynamics, and the bass is drowned out, and the low end kick is not there so much. 

[Cursed71]

Finally got to play this on some big speakers.  Sounds really good to my ears, nothing weird or out of place.  Can't imagine it sounding much heavier.Did you guys do a master for vinyl?

[RacerX]

Solid effort, good tunes. The breakdown in "Spider" & the pick scratch intro to "Goodbye" were high points for me. Guitars, drums & vox all sound good to me. I agree & disagree about the bass guitar level—yes, it's a bit obscured, but it's also hard to have the guitars tuned that low and still leave enough room for it stand out.

[everdrone]

Solid effort, good tunes. The breakdown in "Spider" & the pick scratch intro to "Goodbye" were high points for me. Guitars, drums & vox all sound good to me. I agree & disagree about the bass guitar level—yes, it's a bit obscured, but it's also hard to have the guitars tuned that low and still leave enough room for it stand out.

I listen to the band DOWN a ton, the bass sounds huge on that downtuning

[RacerX]

Solid effort, good tunes. The breakdown in "Spider" & the pick scratch intro to "Goodbye" were high points for me. Guitars, drums & vox all sound good to me. I agree & disagree about the bass guitar level—yes, it's a bit obscured, but it's also hard to have the guitars tuned that low and still leave enough room for it stand out.

I listen to the band DOWN a ton, the bass sounds huge on that downtuning

I didn't say it couldn't be done; I said it's hard to do. Big difference.

[everdrone]

cool brutha, I think the important thing is that we agree the OP has some awesome heavy fuzzed out riffage!

[dunwichamps]

Ron is tuned to Bflat standard i think for reference

[everdrone]

my name is Ron as well, and I downtune to c# on all 50+ of my recordings. 


I recommend subtractive EQing and hard highpassing all the guitars, then subtractive EQing the bassguitar to combine with the guitars more.  I use voxango glissEQ,

here is my fav video on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNYBbPAvKE&feature=player_embedded

[dunwichamps]

my name is Ron as well, and I downtune to c# on all 50+ of my recordings. 

ahh sorry. I should have said core9. I tune to C Stan on my LP.

[core9]

That Youtube clip's sound was from a rushed promo run we did for SHoD.  I have since added a decent amount of low frequency to the mix, bringing out more thickness in the bass drum and bass guitar. 

I kinda like to mix the guitar and bass to create one HUGE sound, but still provide the bass just enough room to have its own spot. I appreciate all you guys feedback.


When it's up on Bandcamp, I will provide the link and you can grab it for yourself.

[Andrew Blakk]

Hey sounds good indeed! Spiders stole the weed - fantastic title!!!