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Wow, that's not a comment I see very often.

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Don't odd-shaped rooms generally reduce room modes? Hence why people build studios without parallel walls, etc.

I just tested it, and my iPod Shuffle skipped right over the 24 bit AIFF file I put on it.

I'm weak in the hands, thanks to carpal-tunnel syndrome.

Drum sounds I'm definitely weak on, especially kick.

Also, getting a mix to translate. I do many many mixes and check on many different places before I give it up (I don't think I've ever been 'finished' with a mix, I just reach a point of diminishing returns.) Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot I can do at the moment to better myself with this, since I'm sure part of it is the room I mix in, and the monitors I mix on. But practice, that's free!

And mastering. I attempt a little mastering for what I post on the internet, but for albums I'm more than happy to pay someone to do it right. And I don't really mind too much that I'm not good at mastering, because I'm not really interested in it.

One that comes to mind immediately is Lamb of God's "New American Gospel". Disgustingly distorted. I like the album, but I can't listen to it very often because it's so distorted. And to a somewhat lesser extent so is their second album "As the Palaces Burn", which is why I listen to their third album the most (and its the one I like least).

Not to mention the fact that there seems to be at least 2 if not 3 distinct production styles on that album. That bugs the hell out of me. The only song that really sounds good on that album (to me) is "Dyer's Eve". But even that one has no bass.

Why do you think Jason Newstead looks so angry in the album pictures?

"I could care less."

I hate it, because people really mean "I couldn't care less."

I also get irritated at the word bizarre, and I don't even know why.

Thanks Killadey.

I often find myself in the bad position of not seeing the forest for the trees, and it was so with this project.

I mixed two songs, this one and another, to sound the same. Then a little later I listened to them next to some Lamb of God, and decided to take a different approach.

I've redone one of the songs, cutting out a lot of low end on basically everything, trying for the general sound of Lamb of God.

Also, I'm pretty poor at mastering, so that may have harmed the mix in what you heard there.

I'd like some opinions on this mix. And I'd like to offer an excuse right off the bat: this was recorded in the band's practice space. I know the quality is up to me as the engineer, but I'll use whatever excuse I can!

My equipment is pretty much bedroom-recording quality. We rented a couple things for the recording. As time goes on, I'm working toward better equipment, but I don't have the money.

I don't need comments on the song itself. The performance isn't perfect, I'll tell you that right off the bat.

The most important lesson I learned on that (long) weekend: don't use compression when you aren't in an environment where you can't really hear what it's doing.

It's death metal.

Devouring Brains