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Unboxing Meshuggah “Monstrocity” raw multi-tracks

Yep, it’s that good!

Eyal Levi takes you on a guided tour of the raw session for this monster of a song (ba dum tiss), originally mixed by Tue Madsen and featured on Nail The Mix back in 2017. And YES, it sounds as ridiculously amazing as you are imagining it does 🙂

Meshuggah “Monstrocity” raw multi-tracks [ UNBOXING ]

Eyal Levi takes you on a guided tour of the raw multi-tracks for “Monstrocity” by Meshuggah from their 2016 album “The Violent Sleep Of Reason,” originally mixed by Tue Madsen…

Here’s a few things to note as you watch the unboxing

It was recorded essentially live, which is very rare for metal because very few bands can pull it off like Meshuggah or Gojira can
The overall arrangement is pretty straightforward… no orchestra or synths or anything, just drums bass guitars and vocals (Tomas Haake on drums, Fredrick Thorendal and Marten Hagstrom on guitar, Dick Lovgren on bass, Jens Kidman vocalist)
While the arrangement is simple, there are a LOT of options for you to work with: the guitars are quad tracked, but with lots of microphones and amp tones (Rectifier, Marshall, Engl, and more) to choose from as well as a guitar DI track. There’s a total of 6 amps PER GUITAR and 4 tracks, for a total of 24 guitar tracks!
These multi-tracks have reamped drums in them, which is rare to see (but awesome!)

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Make your breakdowns hit harder w/ this trick!

No breakdowns? Not music!

In this tutorial, Joel Wanasek shows how a little automation adds dynamics, energy and punch to one of the key parts of many metal mixes: the breakdown!

He uses Cubase’s volume and EQ automation features to make the first hit of each phrase within the breakdown hit a little harder, but the same idea will work in any DAW (just look up “automation” in the help files).

How to use volume and EQ automation to make your breakdowns hit harder!

Joel Wanasek shows how automation adds dynamics, energy and punch to one of the key parts of every metal or metalcore mix: the breakdown! He uses Cubase’s volume and EQ automation features to make the first hit of each phrase within the breakdown hit a little harder, but the same idea will work in any DAW (just look up “automation” in the help files).

If you’re looking for that special sauce that will take your breakdowns from good to DESTRUCTIVE, this should do the trick 🙂

How to edit drums in Pro Tools: Advanced Tutorial

Holy CRAP this tutorial is good!!

We really shouldn’t even be giving this away for free because it’s THAT good – but here you go: John Douglass’ truly insanely great tutorial on editing drums in Pro Tools!

This is a clip from his Pro Tools Fast Track (part of URM Enhanced), and everybody who’s seen it agrees that it’s some of the very best stuff they’ve ever seen on the topic of drum editing– so strap yourself in and prepare to get your learn on 🙂

How to edit drums in Pro Tools: Advanced Tutorial

This might be the BEST Pro Tools drum editing tutorial on the entire internet– seriously! John Douglass is one of the very best metal drum editors around, and he shows you all of his secrets in this advanced tutorial.

Join URM Enhanced to get instant access to over 50 hours of tutorials like this!

How to edit metal drums in Reaper (part 2 of 2)

Take your drums from good to GREAT!

You guys asked, and we delivered: more Reaper content! We’ve got lots more coming, but to start with we’ve got this brand new, 100% free and 100% awesome tutorial on editing drums in Reaper courtesy of our friend Robin Leijon.

How to edit metal drums in Reaper DAW (Part 2 of 2)

Learn how to properly edit modern metal drums in the Reaper DAW with Robin Leijon. Part 1: https://youtu.be/66GOw5T3vQQ He goes over some optional but awesome tips to for metal drum mix prep such as phase correction, evening out levels with light limiting on the shells, and many more helpful tricks for editing metal drums in Reaper DAW!

Check out Part 1 of this series here, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content like this!

How to edit metal drums in Reaper (part 1 of 2)

Robin Leijon shows you everything!

How to edit metal drums in Reaper DAW (Part 1 of 2)

Learn how to properly edit modern metal drums in the Reaper DAW with Robin Leijon. Stay tuned for Part 2 of this tutorial! He will show you how to prep, normalize, quantize to the grid, adjust individual hits, fill gaps with crossfades, and more.

Boom! But that’s not all– we’ve got much more Reaper content coming your way 🙂

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this tutorial coming soon, where Robin shares some of the optional tips and tricks to help you take your drums to the next level in Reaper.