Compare How Producers Treat Different Song Sections
Here you can listen to the same song sections across producers. This makes it easier to focus on transitions, build-ups, and contrasts.
For each section, you can play the full mix for each producer, view key metrics such as hardness, heaviness, and dynamic range, and read short interpretive notes.
What to Listen For in Sections
- Contrast between sections: How do different producers create contrast between verse, pre-chorus, and chorus? Does heaviness come from dynamic shifts, textural changes, or both?
- Textural density vs. transient impact: Does heaviness come mainly from harmonic density, spectral balance, or transient impact? Notice how some producers emphasize sustained saturation while others prioritize percussive events.
- Vocal integration: How are vocals balanced against guitars and drums when heaviness is highest? Do they cut through the density or blend into the texture?
- Source of weight: Does the sense of weight come from sustained energy (spectral hardness) or from sharp, percussive events (punch)? How does this differ across sections and producers?
Buster Odeholm
Hyperreal, maximally saturated wall-of-sound
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Dave Otero
Dense, saturated modern metal production
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Adam Nolly Getgood
Clean, precise modern progressive metal
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Andrew Scheps
Naturalistic, wide dynamic range, spacious
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Fredrik Nordström
Classic Swedish metal production
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
HiMMP Research Team
Research reference mix
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Jens Bogren
Modern metal clarity with controlled density
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Josh Middleton
British metal with controlled aggression
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section
Mike Exeter
Balanced modern metal with dynamic contrast
Section 1
Intensive, texturally dense section
Section 2
Anthemic, weight-focused section