powderfinger
New member
Trying to polish a turd.........
I'm in the middle of a move and in the process I found a copy of my first full blown recording I did about a year and a half ago w/ the drummer from my former band...........only a stereo mixdown track remained
It was just me and him in our practice space and I had just started learning to record......this is a lesson on how NOT to record......but I've done a decent job today (I think...you should hear the original) in getting it to sound a much less harsh........all I had to work with was the final stereo mixdown.........luckily I had one mixdown w/o vocals, so I was able to redub the vocals today real quick........
how i recorded it originally........in my more naive recording days......
1. the drums were w/ just two sm-58's micing the room going into my behringer mixer into a cheap little tape deck.....I also recorded my amp direct into the mixer and panned at the same time (bad idea)......which I have since learned is not a good idea....... the tape deck was transfered to my pc into cakewalk
2. all guitars were overdubbed direct (bad idea)....which again, doesn't hold a candle to a real amp, but I managed to clean them up just a bit.......
3. at the time, I had no idea what EQ or compression were, so it was very harsh (bad idea).......i had to go back in.....i copied the track three times.....stereo eq'd one specifically for a better drum sound, one for a better guitar wound, and one for a better bass sound......obviously this is how NOT to record, but it's the only option I had
so, with no further ado.....one of my first recordings, attempted to polish, w new vocals........Neil Young's F*#!in' Up.....
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1642&alid=154
I'm in the middle of a move and in the process I found a copy of my first full blown recording I did about a year and a half ago w/ the drummer from my former band...........only a stereo mixdown track remained
It was just me and him in our practice space and I had just started learning to record......this is a lesson on how NOT to record......but I've done a decent job today (I think...you should hear the original) in getting it to sound a much less harsh........all I had to work with was the final stereo mixdown.........luckily I had one mixdown w/o vocals, so I was able to redub the vocals today real quick........
how i recorded it originally........in my more naive recording days......
1. the drums were w/ just two sm-58's micing the room going into my behringer mixer into a cheap little tape deck.....I also recorded my amp direct into the mixer and panned at the same time (bad idea)......which I have since learned is not a good idea....... the tape deck was transfered to my pc into cakewalk
2. all guitars were overdubbed direct (bad idea)....which again, doesn't hold a candle to a real amp, but I managed to clean them up just a bit.......
3. at the time, I had no idea what EQ or compression were, so it was very harsh (bad idea).......i had to go back in.....i copied the track three times.....stereo eq'd one specifically for a better drum sound, one for a better guitar wound, and one for a better bass sound......obviously this is how NOT to record, but it's the only option I had
so, with no further ado.....one of my first recordings, attempted to polish, w new vocals........Neil Young's F*#!in' Up.....
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1642&alid=154