The "Right" Sound

[Wazn]

Do you have any recording tips... right now im starting out. So ive been recording for a bit, but i cant get my EQ or anything to sound right. I need it to sound just right. Right as in... Warm, Full.

I have a decent mic, and pre-amp and soundcard. everything is crystal clear into my computer. I just need help with the "right" sound.

Thank You

[Spaztic]

I suggest you start going though some posts. This site contains tons of info. Know one knows the 'right sound' for you. Experimentation is the key.

[greenascanbe]

Besides the boards I would recommend:

The Art of Mixing (book or DVD)

Any article by Paul White on SoundonSound.com

Paul White's The Basic Series books (Mixing, Micing, Recording, efx... all books under 8 bucks on amazon.com)

There is no plug in or equipment upgrade that is going to replace education and experimentation.

[lpdeluxe]

...provided by making errors, due to poor judgment. There is no shortcut to good sound. The first reason is that "good" is highly subjective, and what is good to one is bad to another, and even then what is good to one at a particular time or on a particular recording is bad at another time or on a different recording.

All of us started out with high hopes, which were initially dashed, which then started us on lifelong quests to master sound recording. All of us have tapes of CDs from earlier years that make us cringe in retrospect.

"Good sound" is hard to get. It doesn't come as a plugin with the software (if it did most of us would expire of ennui).

Get your feet wet. Record stuff. Figure out what's lacking. Try some mixes. Read, both here and in places like Electronic Musician and Recording Magazine. Try new things.

Remember that most of the classic recorded sounds you have heard were recorded by engineers who had spent years in apprenticeships, learning the gear and techniques and interpersonal skills under persons of vast experience. In this modern, digital, age, we have to teach ourselves, but it's possible.

After all, it IS a lot of fun.

[KaraokeKancer]

Try this site. http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm TONS to take in. I'm still not done reading it all.