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Unboxing Periphery “Prayer Position” raw multi-tracks

These drums!!!

Eyal Levi takes you on a guided tour of the raw multi-tracks for “Prayer Position” by Periphery, as seen in Nolly’s Nail The Mix from 2016.

Periphery “Prayer Position” raw multi-tracks [UNBOXING]

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

  • Some truly sublime drum tracks courtesy of Matt Halpern. And note that (as far as we can recall) no drum samples were used in the final mix of this song. So if you are thinking about adding a bunch of drum samples to this one, consider instead watching Nolly’s Nail The Mix and see how he got that tight, super punchy sound without samples!
  • Nolly’s bass tracks come as DIs and amped tone – Spencer Sotelo’s vocals have some processing done on the way in (recorded with the help of Taylor Larson), but there’s still lots to work with
  • And of course, plenty of guitars to work with from Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen and Mark Holcomb
  • Some fun extra stuff including a little Moog and viola

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Nolly from PERIPHERY dials in a bass tone

Wanna know the dirty secret of mixing metal? Here it is: 75% of “guitar tone” = bass tone

Guitar tone is obviously a huge part of part of mixing metal, and you’ve probably spent many, many hours chasing “that” tone. What’s not so obvious to many beginning mixers is that a huge part of what you think is “guitar tone” is actually bass tone. When you think of the punch, thickness and attack of a great guitar tone, that’s probably coming from the bass. And it’s not just the low end– the right bass tone usually has some distortion in it that fills in some areas where the guitars are weak.

But as you probably know, getting that bass tone is easier said than done. It’s very, very easy to go overboard with the low end, turning your mix into a soupy mess. And while distortion adds the presence and grit that’s key to a good bass tone, it will also kill the low end. So, how do you get both low end and distortion, since these two things don’t want to get along?

The solution is that most metal mixers use two layers of bass: one clean layer for low end (high passed), and a distorted layer for grit (low passed)– some people even add a third layer for sub-bass.

Nolly from Periphery dials in a bass tone – Nail The Mix preview

In this clip from his Nail The Mix class, Adam Nolly Getgood from Periphery and GetGood Drums mixes his bass tone from “Periphery III: Select Difficulty” in Cubase using a DI track, FF Saturn and Slate VMR. Get the Periphery multi-tracks and Adam Nolly Getgood’s full mixing session ► https://goo.gl/25BAK3

In the below video, Nolly from Periphery shows a really elegant alternative to the above, recreated the amazing bass tone on their most recent album “Select Difficulty” using a DI track, Fabfilter’s Saturn and Slate VMR. If you’re like most of us, you were wowed by the incredible bass tone Nolly got on the album, so you probably want to take notes on this (and try to find a bassist who plays as well as Nolly… good luck with that).

Pay special attention to the multi-band saturation trick at around 4:30, which uses Saturn as an alternative to splitting your bass track into clean + distorted layers– very slick solution that we haven’t seen too often!

 

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