Need Help getting a bad recording!

[Scooter B]

Sorry all, I coud not resist this one!

I was feeling sarcastic seeing all the request for "help with good results" I had to post one looking for bad results to see how many people would look to see what the ##@#%^ is wrong with this guy.

I have found lots of ways to get bad sounds with out help, but I am learning lots of good stuff thanks to this site and all you kind hearted people.

Forgive me

Scooter B

[Prism]

Actually, I suppose if you know all the things that make a bad recording and do the exact opposite, you could have a good recording... Yay.

Isaiah

[Blue Bear Sound]

Hey Scooter,

You didn't post your gear list - what kind of gear are you using? Maybe you're already getting the bad recordings you crave, but just don't know it!



Bruce

[Cyrokk]

Here is my formula for bad recording:

1. buy a sony cassette tape (120 min. length or longer). Hopefully you'll get the ones that squeak and scream upon playback..

2. leave it on the dashboard of your car. Park your car in the sunlight. Leave in the sunlight for one week or more..

3. pry the tape off the dash with a spatula.. and place in a tape recorder with a low output level (Tascam porta03 is a good one.. its output level is only -10dBV)

4. Hopefully you have taken little time to write.. arrange.. or rehearse the song.. Record the song you wrote in one take without warming up or tuning your instrument.. DO NOT listen to your recording.. if you are recording other instruments, record the drums last in order to avoid beat synchronization.. do not listen to previously recorded tracks when recording a new one..

5. Bounce as much as possible.. ignoring both levels and feedback

6. Plug your recording directly into the 1/4" inputs of your mixer.. The low output level of your tape deck will produce a nice loud fuzz that can only serve to augment your masterpiece..

7. plug the mixer into a tape recorder similar to that described above for mastering.. crank the mixer's master outs to +10db.. keep the porta03's levels to near zero.. if you must hear what you are doing.. use only walkman headphones..

8. record your mix onto a cassette tape that has been calibrated as outlined in steps 1,2, and 3.

9. place your final tape in a small boom box.. take it to the mall and play for the customers coming out of Dillard's..

You just can't lose with a formula like this!

Cy

[Scooter B]

Cyrokk,

Have you been spying on my secret formula for diaster? I really enjoyed that one.

And to bruce at Blue Bear I know I have pulled out some really bad sounds and some O.K. ones but nothing I am proud of yet. Besides the stellar Alesis 3630 (please see my ongoing thread in the Alesis section) I bought these small Yamaha monitors similar to your hot spot on a pole that had a #10 somewhere in the model # which I mistakenly thought were the NS10's I had read about but had not seen. These had NO bass response what so ever so my mixes were over Bassy and very muddy.

Being on pawn shop budget and wanting a listenable demo sketch pad I bought a Yamaha MT 4 new and mostly used pawn shop specials wich include;
2 (count em TWO) Alesis 3630's (way before I had a computer or found this site)
1 Alesis Microverb 1 Aphex 104C (Bass PLayer Mag gave it a good review)
1 FXR Elite 1 Sans Amp Bass Driver 1 Sans Amp GT2
1 Alesis 231 Stereo EQ 1 Boss 1/3 rack OD/Fuzz 1 Boss 21 graphic
1 ADA Digital Delay 1 Boss DR 5 and an assortment of boss pedals

The monitors I upgraded to Alesis Monitor 1's and got an Art Tube Pac wich works quite well for my limited use in conjunction with the two Sans Amps. It does add some warmth and fatness. For my Mic's I just have 1 SM 57. Thats all folk's, any donations?