toobalicious
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a friend asked me to help them record a demo of covers this past weekend. they basically didnt know how to use the equipment, thus the request. tracking was severely limited by:
-only being able to record 8 at once (was recorded live save for the vocal overdub). used a 16 channel mackie board with 4 subgroups.
-room was smallish and basically untreated.
-drums sounded like crap, and he didnt even have any crash cymbals! they only had four mics available for drums, so there is a lot of "crappy room". pretty good drummer though.
-practically all of the bass guitar track in the mix is bleed through drum mics. this makes it virtually impossible to do a lot with the drums (which are crispy and thin as-is) without making the bass overbearing and muddy.
-vocalist *insisted* on doing her vocal live, with PA (i was the only one wearing cans). consequently, the original vocal (that was agreeably sub-par) is all over the drum tracks, and the subsequent overdub isnt exactly the same (actually, quite a bit better). it sticks out like a sore thumb in a few places. yes, there is too much reverb. this was a compromise---she wanted delay on there too! decent vocalist, but insecure. we used a low-end mxl LDC for the overdub, which worked a lot better than did the WIRELESS 58 she wanted to use, lol.
i mixed this into the compy and did cursory processing with t-racks.
any suggestions on how to sweeten this up are appreciated! i am not used to working with such bad sounds, and frankly am having some problems with it. there are 7 more tracks of similar quality for me to deal with.
here is a wave file (since mp3 makes it that much worse):
http://www.mediafire.com/?nw1c6e1md90
and here is an mp3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1duxbzdjzxw
TIA, as always
a
-only being able to record 8 at once (was recorded live save for the vocal overdub). used a 16 channel mackie board with 4 subgroups.
-room was smallish and basically untreated.
-drums sounded like crap, and he didnt even have any crash cymbals! they only had four mics available for drums, so there is a lot of "crappy room". pretty good drummer though.
-practically all of the bass guitar track in the mix is bleed through drum mics. this makes it virtually impossible to do a lot with the drums (which are crispy and thin as-is) without making the bass overbearing and muddy.
-vocalist *insisted* on doing her vocal live, with PA (i was the only one wearing cans). consequently, the original vocal (that was agreeably sub-par) is all over the drum tracks, and the subsequent overdub isnt exactly the same (actually, quite a bit better). it sticks out like a sore thumb in a few places. yes, there is too much reverb. this was a compromise---she wanted delay on there too! decent vocalist, but insecure. we used a low-end mxl LDC for the overdub, which worked a lot better than did the WIRELESS 58 she wanted to use, lol.
i mixed this into the compy and did cursory processing with t-racks.
any suggestions on how to sweeten this up are appreciated! i am not used to working with such bad sounds, and frankly am having some problems with it. there are 7 more tracks of similar quality for me to deal with.
here is a wave file (since mp3 makes it that much worse):
http://www.mediafire.com/?nw1c6e1md90
and here is an mp3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1duxbzdjzxw
TIA, as always
a
