Hey guys,
I've been around this place for a while but I've never actually submitted anything. This one is a track I wrote a while back but I finally got around to recording it. I'm not much of a song-writer but it's my mixing I'm interested in!
Just give you a rundown of my gear:
-Digi001
-Monitoring on a Hifi
-Yamaha MG10/2 Preamps (patched the inserts)
-Naint(?) MSH1O overheads.
-Rode NTK
-So yeah violin and synths are going through reason.
-Drums were recorded with the two overheads and a shitty $5 dynamic on kick (ran into a drumagog like program).
-2 channels for guitar. One is a squier DI'd into an amp sim and the other is a 58 on some shitty practise amp.
-Vocals (including weird background sounds) recorded on NTK. They were actually done in two takes (go me)
-Acoustic recorded with NTK.
Everything recorded in my shitty tin shed/garage. I've hung some sheets up as stop-gap measure but I know it's very far from ideal. Monitoring is in same environment (poo).
So yeah I'm just looking for some critiques on my mixing most of all. All the playing was done by me but I'm a hack muso.
I realise my gear is mostly shit but I'm a poor student (sympathy dammit!) and I want to learn how to get the best sound I can out of crap gear before I resort to blaming the gear and upgrading!
Some caveats:
-The snare clips in parts. I need some mic pads.
-The drums are definitely the weakest link - they lack immediacy. It's hard to get an 'in your face' sound when only using 2 (omnis of all things) to record a kit in a tin shed. Shoulda gone with the cardiods. I wish I had the ability to manipulate the snare volume.
-It's not mastered at all. I just ran a bit of compression and very very subtle reverb on the main outs for good luck!
I really appreciate feedback - I love this whole sound recording thing it's great fun and this place is such a valuable resource for me.
So enough ker-fuffling! Here it is.
Paper St. (3:13)
I've been around this place for a while but I've never actually submitted anything. This one is a track I wrote a while back but I finally got around to recording it. I'm not much of a song-writer but it's my mixing I'm interested in!
Just give you a rundown of my gear:
-Digi001
-Monitoring on a Hifi
-Yamaha MG10/2 Preamps (patched the inserts)
-Naint(?) MSH1O overheads.
-Rode NTK
-So yeah violin and synths are going through reason.
-Drums were recorded with the two overheads and a shitty $5 dynamic on kick (ran into a drumagog like program).
-2 channels for guitar. One is a squier DI'd into an amp sim and the other is a 58 on some shitty practise amp.
-Vocals (including weird background sounds) recorded on NTK. They were actually done in two takes (go me)
-Acoustic recorded with NTK.
Everything recorded in my shitty tin shed/garage. I've hung some sheets up as stop-gap measure but I know it's very far from ideal. Monitoring is in same environment (poo).
So yeah I'm just looking for some critiques on my mixing most of all. All the playing was done by me but I'm a hack muso.
I realise my gear is mostly shit but I'm a poor student (sympathy dammit!) and I want to learn how to get the best sound I can out of crap gear before I resort to blaming the gear and upgrading!
Some caveats:
-The snare clips in parts. I need some mic pads.
-The drums are definitely the weakest link - they lack immediacy. It's hard to get an 'in your face' sound when only using 2 (omnis of all things) to record a kit in a tin shed. Shoulda gone with the cardiods. I wish I had the ability to manipulate the snare volume.
-It's not mastered at all. I just ran a bit of compression and very very subtle reverb on the main outs for good luck!
I really appreciate feedback - I love this whole sound recording thing it's great fun and this place is such a valuable resource for me.
So enough ker-fuffling! Here it is.
Paper St. (3:13)
