Topic: The Podium Music Lounge

I added a flash player to my site, so you won’t have to download the whole album in order to listen to it.. Still any comments are highly appreciated! 8)

http://www.sound-m.com/hellofromhell.php

@Piltdown Man wrote:

Thanks for sharing this with us Max!

What I like the most about these songs are those fast, explosive solos 😀
And as I’m trying to churn out some heavy sounds from Podium myself, I would be very interested in any production details you’d like to post!

Cheers,
jan-erik

Thanks Jan-Erik!! 🙂

The arrangements are rather simple.

1 Track for the bass guitar which is driven by a guitar amp.. It’s a Rickenbacker Bass, so we get nearly the sound Lemmy (from Motorhead) gets 😉

Rhythm guitars are 2 tracks panned left and right. I recorded the same part two times to have a punchy and “big” guitar sound. The sound itself comes from my Boss GT8 FX pedal and is tweaked with some EQ.

The solo guitars are recorded clean and were then routed through Line6 Gearbox plugin, in order to be able to change the sound at any stage of the mixing process.

The vocals have been recorded with my Toneport UX2, and I used one of its internal amp sims to get the vocals loud and punchy.

The drums are a thouroughly chosen stereo kit from Scarbee’s Imperial Drums XL library. They are partly recorded with an eDrumset and then tweaked via the midi editor. Some songs have been created from scratch in the midi editor, using Podiums superb drum editor! 🙂 The drums got a good portion of Hydratone (fire knob) to make them sound more natural.

For the master chain I used Clas, which I can higly recommend as a master plugin! Followed by a multiband compressor and a MPL1-Pro as a limiter.

That’s it! 🙂 Finishing one song, and then saving it as a template makes things much easier, because there aren’t too many changes to make when working on the other songs. When mixing 15 songs, this is a great relief! 😉

I am proud you like my guitar work 8)

Max