Maroon 5 - Payphone - Metal Cover

[G27DUDE]

Felt like doing something fun. Give me your thoughts!

https://soundcloud.com/tonybrown-3/payphone-maroon-5-cover

 

[Daniel_V]

Damn! I love it! Probably needs more presence on the guitars, but I'm listening with my iPod headphones, so dont mind me blabbering!

Awesome work!

 

[G27DUDE]

Thanks man! Your Katy Perry cover inspired me to do this one!

 

[Daniel_V]

Oh, thanks too.. Glad you liked it! I'm working on a few more, soon to be finished.

Maybe I'll will sound like a douche, but.. I'm so happy and yet surprised that I inspired so many people with my remake ..

And I'm surprised yet again why you removed your track from SC and why your post remix ISN'T IN THE TOP 5 THREADS!?!
You obviously gave it more thought on the musical side of things!

UPLOAD IT AGAIN... this should stay in the SS archives!

 

[G27DUDE]

Ahh.. That's my bad.. I changed the url without even thinking about the link I have on here. Fixing that now!

And no problem man. Your track sounds great and I'm looking forward to more! I even looked into those Nick Crow amp sims and I think I'll be using those quite a bit...

 

[G27DUDE]

fixed!

 

[Daniel_V]

And now maybe enable the download? I want this blasting in my car!

 

[G27DUDE]

Of course! After all, I downloaded yours and blast it just about everyday

 

[Daniel_V]

Cool man... still blasting it thru my headphones.. I hate new Maroon 5 songs and rapping.. but I just love this version!

 

[G27DUDE]

Glad you enjoy it! I didn't think it would really catch on for anyone! Here's another version. I pushed the guitars a little more and it's more focused on the bottom end. The guitars don't sound as weak imo... I'm still fairly new to this mixing thing.. Haha

https://soundcloud.com/tonybrown-3/payphone-maroon-5-ft-wiz

 

[Raayl]

lmfao this is hilarious/awesome

the kick definitely needs some more presence, try a boost around 150hz just so it cuts through under that wall of guitars.

the breakdown/bass drop section is ridiculous.

nice work.

 

[G27DUDE]

Haha, thanks man! I just got Steven Slate Drums and I am not a drummer, so I still don't have a great ear for drums. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Raayl]

Haha, thanks man! I just got Steven Slate Drums and I am not a drummer, so I still don't have a great ear for drums. Thanks for the tip!

steven slate metal kit 1 responds really well to master bus compression and limiting.

check out the thread i just made for that linkin park remix - thats the kit i used. my kick might be a little TOO bassy though, lmao.

all im using is a freeware limiter called endorphin and some glue compression and eq. it's pretty easy.

+1 on SSD drums too

 

[G27DUDE]

steven slate metal kit 1 responds really well to master bus compression and limiting.

check out the thread i just made for that linkin park remix - thats the kit i used. my kick might be a little TOO bassy though, lmao.

all im using is a freeware limiter called endorphin and some glue compression and eq. it's pretty easy.

+1 on SSD drums too

This may be a dumb question... In my signal chain, should I have SSD > EQ (150 Hz Boost)? I have all of the drums on one track. Should I separate them and EQ the kick drum on its own? And thanks for the info. I'll check those out

 

[Raayl]

This may be a dumb question... In my signal chain, should I have SSD > EQ (150 Hz Boost)? I have all of the drums on one track. Should I separate them and EQ the kick drum on its own? And thanks for the info. I'll check those out

you can use the EQ inside SSD for the kick, or if you don't like working internally in the VSTi, you can split the drum tracks up (kick on its own SSD vsti) and then apply an EQ first thing in the chain

that also gets you into techniques like side-chaining which can create a nice pump in the kick to give it some more boost

 

[G27DUDE]

Okay, sure thing. I'm taking this as a good opportunity to learn about bussing, aux tracks and more