I always felt like my recordings have lacked that nice deep sound that you can find on most professional audio recordings, and I always have wondered why my tracks don't ever sound like that.
Here is an example of a song we had recorded at the Lava Room in Cleveland. It's just a demo so I think they just slapped on reverb and that's it:
....and here is a version I made at home using a Zoom L-12 and a AKG C214 mic. The guitars were the same:
Now, where did all that low end go? The guitars even seem lacking in the mids.
Here is an example of a song we had recorded at the Lava Room in Cleveland. It's just a demo so I think they just slapped on reverb and that's it:
....and here is a version I made at home using a Zoom L-12 and a AKG C214 mic. The guitars were the same:
Now, where did all that low end go? The guitars even seem lacking in the mids.