Coffin Dust came back in over the weekend to record three new songs and it was awesome. I did their last recording back in November, my first with my Royer R-121 so it was a special session for me. Since then, I have not only added a shitload of new gear but picked up quite a few new tricks and I was confident that this would be my best recording to date. Here’s a track.

That’s mix/master 2. There’s some cymbal bleed coming through the snare mic that the gate isn’t catching fast enough; I’m not sure if anyone other than me would have noticed if I didn’t just point it out and I can’t decide whether fixing it is nitpicking or not. Though I’m not without my complaints, I’m quite pleased with how it came out and think that it definitely is my best mix so far.

It’s amazing how much of a difference my new monitors have made. I always read claims that new monitors would change everything but I just didn’t get it; I mean, I felt like my old monitors (Event Project 6s) were great, how different could things really be with new ones? The answer: extremely different. I didn’t even notice it at first, all I knew was that I could hear the upper mids a bit better and they were far more boring to listen to, which when you think about it is what you want from studio monitors. My first mixes, though, some almost-finished stuff for my grindcore band Unrest, were markedly better than anything I had done before. I nailed Coffin Dust on mix 1 and then polished it up on mix 2, something that seemed impossible a few weeks ago.