Lonewolf14
New member
Hello,
First of all, glad to find the forums and have the posibility of getting feedback from experienced people all over the world.
I'm from Argentina and i'm guitarist of a garage band, "Sale Circus". I've setup a home studio where we are attempting to record our first demo album. But i'm also intrested in getting experience for both recording and producing music.
My setup is very cheep. probably the cheepest you can get. My limited mic choises are 3 caroid dynamic mics of diferent brands (Parker, JTS and other), a JTS kick drum mic and a small condenser mic. (neewer Nw800). All with XLR/XLR cable.
The recording interface is a behringer umc404hd and as DAW 'm using Acid Pro, just because i allready had it. But also have pro tools first installed.
I've started mixing some takes and i'm hitting a wall when it comes to the final sound of the songs. For some reason the mixes and mesterings end up with good clarity but sounding like it's far behind the speakers. Specially the drum.
I did comit an error on micing the drums cause instead of using a snare close mic, i put the condenser mic avobe the kick drum near the snare in the hopes of getting more body for the drum kit. But in result i got a distant snare sound.
You may wonder why didn't i mic the snare too. But the interface has only 4 channels. so the overheads are in stereo 1/2, 3 for the kick and 4 the condenser mic. We will re take the trackings using a close snare mic but i'm not sure if that is the point of the matter.
This is the resulting sound of the drums for a song called "Llaves" with some editing. I actually ended removing all reverb from the tracks in the mix.
see links below
But still, even with all other instruments added, the result sound has the feel of "farness" and it laks the punch of the music that makes you feel it. Wich is a shame because the band live has a lot of power and specially punch. But i haven't been able to capture it.
This is the best that i could get out of mixing and mastering
see links below
Very much a wip in terms of musical arrengments and performance. (we are amateurs with very limited time for getting all 4 together)
But i'm not sure what could be the cause of this results. Ofcourse my first conclusion would be cheep mics. But i'm starting to doubt if the problem could be elsewhere.
Anyway, any feedback would be much apreciate. Probably many been where i am before.
I would like to determine if it's a gear issue, a recording issue or a post edition issue.
Thanks in advance, Gabriel.
First of all, glad to find the forums and have the posibility of getting feedback from experienced people all over the world.
I'm from Argentina and i'm guitarist of a garage band, "Sale Circus". I've setup a home studio where we are attempting to record our first demo album. But i'm also intrested in getting experience for both recording and producing music.
My setup is very cheep. probably the cheepest you can get. My limited mic choises are 3 caroid dynamic mics of diferent brands (Parker, JTS and other), a JTS kick drum mic and a small condenser mic. (neewer Nw800). All with XLR/XLR cable.
The recording interface is a behringer umc404hd and as DAW 'm using Acid Pro, just because i allready had it. But also have pro tools first installed.
I've started mixing some takes and i'm hitting a wall when it comes to the final sound of the songs. For some reason the mixes and mesterings end up with good clarity but sounding like it's far behind the speakers. Specially the drum.
I did comit an error on micing the drums cause instead of using a snare close mic, i put the condenser mic avobe the kick drum near the snare in the hopes of getting more body for the drum kit. But in result i got a distant snare sound.
You may wonder why didn't i mic the snare too. But the interface has only 4 channels. so the overheads are in stereo 1/2, 3 for the kick and 4 the condenser mic. We will re take the trackings using a close snare mic but i'm not sure if that is the point of the matter.
This is the resulting sound of the drums for a song called "Llaves" with some editing. I actually ended removing all reverb from the tracks in the mix.
see links below
But still, even with all other instruments added, the result sound has the feel of "farness" and it laks the punch of the music that makes you feel it. Wich is a shame because the band live has a lot of power and specially punch. But i haven't been able to capture it.
This is the best that i could get out of mixing and mastering
see links below
Very much a wip in terms of musical arrengments and performance. (we are amateurs with very limited time for getting all 4 together)
But i'm not sure what could be the cause of this results. Ofcourse my first conclusion would be cheep mics. But i'm starting to doubt if the problem could be elsewhere.
Anyway, any feedback would be much apreciate. Probably many been where i am before.
I would like to determine if it's a gear issue, a recording issue or a post edition issue.
Thanks in advance, Gabriel.