Naked God featuring Crownbird - HeadCrush (industrial)

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Oscillator Studios proudly presents

Naked God featuring Crownbird - HeadCrush

Synthesizers, programming and vocals: Staffan Melin
Guitars: Crownbird
Additional vocals: Kajsa Olsson

It was very rewarding working with Crownbird -- a big thank you!!!

https://nakedgod.bandcamp.com/track/headcrush

Produced using Debian, MusE, Surge, Helm, drumkv1.

[Tenaba]

I'm happy the song turned out this way. Thank you for collaborating with me, let's definitely do this again.

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I'm happy the song turned out this way. Thank you for collaborating with me, let's definitely do this again.

I'd really like that! For me this was a perfect example of 1+1 = 3! And the first song I have been involved in with two (!) guitar solos! Awesome stuff!

[spamatica]

Yay, so nice to see collaborations! The first of several one can hope.

Very powerful and aggressive. Not sure what it's about but probably not about gardening.
Really liked the oriental sounding backing vocals!

But being the one I am, I have some complaints too
I do hope you guys know it's because I want it to be as good as possible. I might of course, not be in the right... it's my opinion.

First, was this mastered? I think it could be quite a bit louder, especially for the type of music.

Secondly, the guitar sounds too nice. The overall sound of the song, industrial, aggressive isn't really reflected in the guitar.
I believe I had objections to the guitar sound on crownbirds last song, not sure this is the same sound but it feels very similar in tone.
Still, in it's current form it can probably be shaped with eq to make it more aggressive. Adding more reverb and delay might help the experience too.

That is all, make more!

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First, was this mastered? I think it could be quite a bit louder, especially for the type of music.

Thanks for listening and commenting!

There is some compression and the Calf Bass enhancer on the output. I tried to max out the meters using the Bass enhancer.

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Secondly, the guitar sounds too nice. The overall sound of the song, industrial, aggressive isn't really reflected in the guitar.
I believe I had objections to the guitar sound on crownbirds last song, not sure this is the same sound but it feels very similar in tone.
Still, in it's current form it can probably be shaped with eq to make it more aggressive. Adding more reverb and delay might help the experience too.

Yeah, I think the guitars could be louder but then I would have to lower the 3 (!) bass synths, and I was too much of a coward to do that. But I think maybe I should try to make a "metal mix" and see what happens!

[spamatica]

There is some compression and the Calf Bass enhancer on the output. I tried to max out the meters using the Bass enhancer.
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Oh my. I'm so sorry. It seems that I at some point had lowered the audio output of firefox. Why would I do that?...
Checking again and it feels better. Probably it can still be higher but not compared to what I thought I heard.

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Oh my. I'm so sorry. It seems that I at some point had lowered the audio output of firefox. Why would I do that?...
Checking again and it feels better. Probably it can still be higher but not compared to what I thought I heard.

No need to be sorry, @spamatica! But I can't see how to make it louder without overdriving. Or rather, I have to push some synths back to make the guitars louder. I'd like that, too!

[turbidh20]

Interesting! Not my kind of thing really but it certainly has energy

I liked the guitar sound, thought it was great. It was certainly loud enough as well (I have a volume control )

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Interesting! Not my kind of thing really but it certainly has energy

I liked the guitar sound, thought it was great. It was certainly loud enough as well (I have a volume control )

Thank you for listening and commenting! @turbidh20!