thanks guys
I guess basically how I did this song.... I put the metronome on and record a guitar part all the way through, it won't be perfect but it's just a scratch track so I can decide how I want to program the drums. Then I go in there and start clicking all the drum hits with a mouse on the MIDI grid with that Superior Drummer 2.0 thing. This is the most time consuming part. I copy and paste a lot of it though, and usually I'll just change up the last couple of hits so not every drum fill is the same. Or I'll change up the drum velocities to make it sound not so perfect.
Once the drums are programmed I'll start doing the guitars for real. I usually do this by section, I'll record the intro and then a few minutes later work on the verse or the chorus. This way I can concentrate on playing each part really well, stuff gets done faster that way and I don't have to worry about losing a good take if the first 3 minutes are great but I hit a wrong note at the end.
I always record pretty much the same exact thing but twice, aka double tracking. Then pan the guitars all the way to the left and right. Then any leads or melodic guitars or whatever get recorded. I do bass last.
Then the boring/frustrating part is getting everything to sound good together. I don't know too much about this so I just cheat and put Ozone 4 on it, which is a "mastering" plug in. It makes the whole thing louder and you can also do things like match an EQ curve from a song you like. I didn't do any kind of post EQ on the guitars or bass but I have been doing more of that recently depending on what the song calls for. Usually I try to get the best possible sound out of the Axe Fx so I don't have to bother with any kind of guitar processing during mixdown.
Hope this helps, there really aren't any secrets to it. I think other people here get amazing sounding mixes. Obviously, Bulb. I wish I knew how he got some of his drum sounds from Superior 2.0.
