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You're hearing this from a few others, but I would argue the better approach is: 1. Record a track. 2. If it doesn't sound reasonably good, re-record that track. 3. If it does, record your next track. 4. Rinse and repeat. 5. When finished, set levels and pan, and THEN start applying EQ...

In reverse order... It's not that I don't use bus processing, and in situations where I'm looking at the bus as a single instrument - say, a bass guitar broken into low end and high end parts, or a bus combining two seperate mics on a stereo-mic'd guitar - then I absolutely treat the bus as if...

This, really. If I were to take it a step further, the only other thing I might suggest spending a LOT of time thinking about early on is gain staging. Re: bussing - I do it a ton... But, I don't do much buss processing. Rather, I'll mix all my drum tracks into a drum bus, my guitar tracks into...

That's a cool chart. And I'd argue it's no coincidence that so much of the action is clustered in the "colored" section of the chart - having a very clean pre at your disposal is important (though I'd hazard a suspicion that most of the stock pres in better quality interfaces tend to be pretty...

Thanks guys!

So, I've been doing home recording in some form or other for damned near... 20 years now, I guess. It's a hobby, one of a couple, and one I don't have as much time to dedicate to as I'd like, but it's one I do take pretty seriously and over the years I've gotten to the point where I'm fairly...

I've started to go down the preamp/outboard gear in a big way - I'll be honest, in some ways it's throwing large amounts of money at the problem in pursuit of marginal improvements... But, IMO, those marginal improvements DO matter (as primarily a guitarist, I look at it as the difference...

Well, this got a little heated after I last posted. :laughings: Quick update - we got together for one final session with a fairly short to-do list, with this being one of those items. My uncle practiced his ass off, and delivered maybe 3-4 pretty good takes, out of which I was able to comp...

Spent some more time with this last night. On one hand, it's in pretty good shape, WAY better than it was, and in a pinch is totally usable now, so for the time being I'll keep moving forward with this take as if it's a keeper. On the other, it's still not a great performance, and it was so...

Love this song - I'd heard a little bit of his playing before, but this was the song that turned me into a fan of his, when I heard a live-in-the-studio version he played on a radio station, and I don't think I breathed for the entire duration of the song. I agree in practice it doesn't really...

Hey, on my OWN music, when I'm recording myself, I'll always take the time to get the part right, and I'm a firm believer that great mixes start with great tracks. Recording other people, you don't always have that luxury. It took us several hours to get a couple "good enough" takes that I was...

Ok, two hours of editing later and some rebalancing of the mix, and that's absolutely nuts. The future is an amazing place. I still have to do a little bit of cleanup and it'll never be perfect, but it's already useable enough that no one who isn't listening for it will ever notice. Amazing.

Holy shit. This actually is pretty eerily effective. It's tedious as hell so I'll be drinking amounts I generally reserve for drum sequencing while I work on this, but this is something I wish I knew about YEARS ago.

Missed that. Hmm... I'm not hearing anything that sounds audibly like digital clipping. It DOES sound very artificial, though, almost MIDI-esq. Honestly, if I hadn't known any better, I'd have thought this was recorded direct without any sort of cabinet emulation/model on it. It sounds oddly hi-fi.

Any way you can share a clip?

Honestly, the whole question of should you try to get a "flat" mix or a "colorized" mix seems alien to me. Right off the bat, I'll say that if I've learned anything in, jeez, 20 years of home recording, it's that the number one thing that's going to shape the "quality" of your mix is your...

:lol: You know, we seem to be gradually moving towards "how can you ensure this doesn't happen in the next take, so maybe it makes sense to go down that road, since barring spectral editing getting most of this out, that's probably our next course of action. I actually really like the idea...

For the most part, this project has been a blast. It's just this one track that's trying my patience. :lol: That actually crossed my mind, just playing it myself. The problem is, I'm really more of a rock guy at heart, and am pretty lost without a pick. I have considered that, though, and I...

Couple good suggestions here, and I'll check out the Spectral Editor vid from home tonight (writing this from work on my lunch break - I'm definitely a Reaper user). Brushes could be an interesting approach too, so maybe I'll give a shot to trying a few different drum performances and see if...

Ok, I haven't posted here in ages, so first off, hi everyone! I've been working on a project for a while now with my dad and my uncle, which in many ways has been a lot of fun - both were critical in getting me into music as a kid, so it's been a lot of fun to, as an adult, work on an album...