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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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Mixing MESHUGGAH guitars with Tue Madsen

Sometimes more is actually more

You’ll often hear us say that less is more – that if you’ve got a ton of plugins on every channel or super complex signal chains that it’s probably compensating for a mistake you made somewhere else. And while that is generally true (#tbt when I first started out and had like 4 or 5 EQs on my guitar tracks), there are exceptions. Sometimes more is actually more, with each new element adding something new and vital.

Mixing MESHUGGAH guitars w/ Tue Madsen | Nail The Mix

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Such is the case with the guitars in this clip from Tue Madsen’s NTM session where he mixes “MonstroCity” by Meshuggah. This session is nuts, with over a dozen layers of guitars that blend 4 or 5 different tones (several amps, mics, etc).

And for 99% of bands, we’d probably say this is overkill. But as you’ll see and hear in the video, every one of these tones fills in a little gap in the other tones – it’s subtle, but they all layer on top of each other and combine into a guitar tone that’s fucking gigantic and absolutely crushing! Pay special attention to when he turns on the 4 “C-WATT” tracks and check out how it adds that extra bit of saturation that really takes them over the top.

A word of caution before you try this at home, remember that these guys are some of the very best players in metal and Tue is a ridiculous mixer. Go ahead and give it a shot if you want, but don’t let yourself get distracted by fancy stuff like this if you haven’t yet nailed the basics.

If you’re not super happy with your guitars, the answer is VERY rarely “add more tones.” 99% of the time that’s only going to make things worse– you’re almost always going to be better off focusing on the performances, cab/mic selection/placement, and other basics.

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