Garage recording feel

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Hey guys,

So im recording a track with my band and we did a rough recording of the song in our basement and we all LOVE the feel it has since its a live basement recording and has some great room effects (yea even a basement can make a cool feel)

here's the live recording


Now we are starting to record that for real and i want to capture the same feeling.

I was thinking of setting up the close mic method on the amps for the bass and guitar and also setting up some room mics in the basement we recorded the live one in.

has anyone had experience with doing something like this?

or, does anyone know how i can possibly get the same kind of effect?

Edit - and by live i mean set up a kick mic, 2 OH's, and a snare mic... then 1 mic on the bass cab and 1 mic on the guitar cab
 
If you wanna go that way, I'd try to isolate the bass and guitar cabs from the drums so there isn't a ton of bleed. The OH mics will pick up a lot of whatever else is going on in the room and you'll have a mess mixing.
 
aaronmcoleman said:
If you wanna go that way, I'd try to isolate the bass and guitar cabs from the drums so there isn't a ton of bleed. The OH mics will pick up a lot of whatever else is going on in the room and you'll have a mess mixing.
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i suppose i didnt specify, but we are now recording it for real, NOT live, meaning 1 instrument at a time.

what i have up there is a rough sketch of the song idea that we recorded to remember the song more or less and we like the feel of the live recording so we want to try to recreate the idea of a live sound (like the sketch has) while still recording instruments individually.
 
sounds like the way i do things actually. I don't have a problem with bleed through from overheads by the way, sure it's in there but thats just part oof the sound. I love garage-style sounding stuff personally. It beats super-produced sterilized sounding little boxes. The song is what counts. As long as the song is good and you can hear what's more or less going on, it's a good song. Music without any real feeling just mathematically put together and precisely played over and over and mixed in precisely to a perfect blend has the great sound and the perfect clarity and the cheesy genre cliche's like 'metal' and 'country' and 'latin' and 'hip hop' so on of stereotyped content (sounds like a list of preset rhythms on a cheesy 80s keyboard.. dont forget 'samba', 'rhumba', and 'bossa nova')... well... it has a good audio feel to it, and not much in this one guys opinion, in the way of meaningful content, but its just what they gotta do because there isn't much in 'baby, baby, baby, baby, baby' worth selling a track thats nice and clean and radio friendly IMO other than a nice clear cheese track. But hey it pushes my speakers all good, right? Well... sound like a room with some guys rockin in it, raw, pure, honest, blunt... and i'll pick that any time.
 
Live recordings have room sound so add some room sound....
 
I think that raw recording is pretty cool how it is. I say box it up and sell it :listeningmusic:
 
Your live recording isn't too shabby at all. The only nit would be the stereo field beinga bit odd.
If you want that live sound you won't get it as the bleed, room and interaction of musicians combine to generate that.
 
Bisson820 said:
Now we are starting to record that for real and i want to capture the same feeling.
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Bisson820 said:
i suppose i didnt specify, but we are now recording it for real, NOT live, meaning 1 instrument at a time.
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A live recording is still a real recording. Why not invest some time working on positioning yourselves and a pair of mics and just record it live like you did before?
 
You don't need to make an effort to capture the room by putting up room mics everywhere, at least not with drums. The room effects their sound more than you'd probably think. You can experiment with the guitar cab, but perosonally I'd try to use one mic first and try different positions. You could try moving it gradually further away from the amp to find the spot where there is some of the room in it, but impact too.
 
I would record a guide track (guitar maybe) and then record the drums on their own with the drummer following the guide track. Then record bass and guitars separately.
You want to DI the guitar and the bass, and also mic the guitar and bass speakers with as many mics as you can for more control at the Mixing stage.

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