Feedback on Metallica cover, anyone?

SirCanealot · #1 06-23-2010, 08:54 AM

Hi guys,

Here's one of our tracks we recorded a while ago. Was done in a few hours via multitrack in a studio, but obviously a tad rushed. Still sounds pretty good though. I'm a complete amateur at mixing, but I've been trying and trying and reading and trying the last few weeks. Here's what I've came up with so far for our cover of Of Wolf and Man:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/4UrIr_IV/Wolf23.htmll

Already had the girlfriend and bandmates listen. What do you guys think? Anything jump out instantly as wrong?

Thanks!

BassMaster4s · #2 06-23-2010, 09:02 AM

Sounds good. What happened to the backing vocals during the bridge?

Righteous Thunderer · #3 06-23-2010, 09:05 AM

Definitely a bit faster than the original, but I thought it sounded pretty good.

5string5fingers · #4 06-23-2010, 09:05 AM

Pretty bad-ss man! I love that song. Doesn't quite have the heaviness of the original,not sure if its the EQ of the guitars or what. Either way sounds great.

SirCanealot · #5 06-23-2010, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by BassMaster4s

Sounds good. What happened to the backing vocals during the bridge?

Not 100% on the vocal line, but it was a cover of how they do it "live", so that may be a reason for anything missing. Or do you mean something else?

And yeah, it just "happened" to be a bit faster (how we played it on the day)

I think it sounds better in some ways and worse in some ways... :P

And I've been thinking it doesn't sound as heavy! I've tried to EQ the guitars to make them a little more heavy, but one of the problems with us as a band are we aren't nearly as heavy as 'tallica. Both our guitarists either use Marshall combos or metal zone pedals. I wish both of them would get Mesa Dual Recs with 4x12s, but unless I hand them to them, I think they'll complain about the cost of them... :P

We also did Ride the Lightning on the day too, and I think our recording on that was a bit more heavy, so hopefully I can get that up on here soon too...

Thanks!

BassMaster4s · #6 06-23-2010, 12:11 PM

All I meant is that during the talking part, Newstead always did the shape-shift, move-swift parts. Listen to the S & M recording to hear what I mean. Haven't heard it live since he's been replaced, so maybe they scrapped the backups.

SirCanealot · #7 06-23-2010, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BassMaster4s

All I meant is that during the talking part, Newstead always did the shape-shift, move-swift parts. Listen to the S & M recording to hear what I mean. Haven't heard it live since he's been replaced, so maybe they scrapped the backups.

Ahhhh, that! Nether of our guitarists are insanely strong on backups and we were running out of time, so we decided it would be easiest to just have the singer worry about the singing and them two worry about the guitars.

Back when they covered Creeping Death (before I joined), they had the whole band do takes of "DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!" though xD

And wish I had Newstead's voice!

Cheers again for the feedback.

TomA1234 · #8 06-23-2010, 12:32 PM

To me it sounds a lot like the original but doesn't have all of the heavyness of the original.

Craig630 · #9 06-23-2010, 03:49 PM

Only problem I can see vs the original is that you can easily identify the bass on this one.

Other than that, great job!

SirCanealot · #10 06-24-2010, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TomA1234

To me it sounds a lot like the original but doesn't have all of the heavyness of the original.

I think I've come to the conclusion that we didn't have enough beer to make it sound as heavy as the original

And thanks again for the feedback. I've uploaded a newer version too. I noticed the guitar volume is really screwey in Wolf22, so they're a lot beefier in Wolf23. Bass is down a tad, but I'll have to give it a good listen on my mp3 player to see if it needs to come back up a bit (the speakers I use to mix on aren't great...).

Cheers!