tubedude's drums, panning help, and everyone's distortion ideas = good enough for me!

[shackrock]

i just recorded my friend's band using Tubedude's drumming post (in the drum forum)...about the 2 overheads, hard panning...etc (mic on bass drum and snare too...but the snare needs to be louder definately).

then for distortion i checked some old posts that gidge gave me, along with some other ideas...and got the perfect results that i wanted.


now my mixing isn't perfect - because to tell you the truth i can NEVER get compressors to do what i want...and i pretty much quit with that...lol

but i'd say it still sounds very nice...for what i'm using (sm57, sm58, crappy EV on bass drum (hence the bad bass drum), sm48).
and of course, each track seperate.

no vocals yet.
http://www.angelfire.com/emo/shackrockinc/links.html


i am still pretty happy with the results...other then my faults with drum levels (snare, etc.)

[minusone]

Hey,
I dig the tune, reminds me a bit of the old Fat Wreck stuff... perhaps even a bit of the old Revelation stuff (back when they still did hardcore).

Anyway, I am by no means an expert, but since I play and record emo/post-hardcore/pop stuff... i'd like to just toss in my $.02, please take with enormous grain of salt

I think the guitars sound rather good, nice presence.

the drums are very cool too... I can see you did indeed use the overheads... have you ever listened to stuff on Quarterstick records, like Rodan, or the Rachels or stuff like that? Steve Albini produces a lot of that stuff and he likes the room-ambient kit sound... one thing I noticed that really makes that work is the rest of the instruments live in the same space as the drums... so maybe something you may want to try later on... is to give the guitar and bass some more "air" move the mic's away a little... I have found that you can really capture that "roomy-ness" with just letting a little air in!

Just a touch of reverb helps too... just a little though on the guitar tracks.

As for compression... heh... I see what you mean... it is really noticable on the bass tracks. You know what I have found... and trust me, I am in the same boat is you... I am all thumbs when it comes to tweaking the compressor... is to just to lay off of it.

My compressor shows me how much compression is on the signal with its metering and I know its too much when 3 or more bars on the meter are lit up! so I back off.

I always have to tell myself "let it breathe" when I hear a mix getting too "choked" or compressed.

I don't know if this made any sense... keep up the good work though!