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Yup compression should help loads... The piano is really likely to drown in the guitar sounds if not compressed or the attack will be too loud... Of course, EQ will be necessary to get the job done. Have you tried some non-real-sounding piano sounds? Often sompin like a hip-hop-piano or so will...

Remember, too that it is much easier to stay away from recording with compression going in if you use 24 bit... Might be worth for you to consider, especially if you are not that experienced. Alas, I can't as I always record with my vs880ex - a 16bitter... Remember next, that a lot of EQ...

Be careful with the proximity effect Recorded a song once where I went between whipering and screaming. Had to discard the 'best' part, as I had to back off so far that the missing proximity effect maded the shouting thin out too much... I think the next time, I'll try to record two tracks at...

Yup - I did this Funny enough, I stated in another thread not too long ago - I used this approach long ago... Micro-Stack (the 9V like) - distortion with mic (chinese sm58 copy - I likred that one very much for its reduced high end) t-shirt for taking out the edgy reflections Took me VERY...

Dunno - at least it stank :D

High! Might it be some very low end verb parts. I read an article about SIR (a sampling impulse response verb) and some high end verb builder said something like 'these verbs sound nice for a home user, but very sterile. They simply lack the low freq parts that have to handle times of up to...

Experiment a lot! I once recorded a VERY nice guitar by placing a marshall micro stack (the 9V battery powered thing) into a little box and adding a t-shirt and the mic into the box. Took me about an hour to find the right placement, but it was really fat. @chessrock: what is professional? If...

I assume you're talking about low volume pads. May give incredible 'air' or 'width' feeling in slow parts. I'm shrieking back of giving it names like that (remember the warmth/black/tube discussion), but it is hard to describe... And you're prolly right they should be ducked whenever the rest...

I prefer double tracking - but I do punk rock... Often heard about people using two mics on guitar, so I assume you'll get nice results. You might try to do some 'exciting' compressor technique to get a fuller sound... The only thing I wouldn't wanna have is the adjustment of the two tracks - I...

With the delays you will probably use too much feedback - try two slapbacks R and L with 1/8 and 1/4 note delay time. will probably help a lot... aXel

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Very nice tips... Some more ideas: use mic distortion... Makes the sound a lot fatter. Condensers may work nicer for that... (Maybe even cheap ones?) You might think of using two mics simultaneously: one for the sung parts and one for the screams. Both can be set up the way they need...

Overcompression can add a lot of 'dirt'. I find it more interesting than pure distortion, as you have a lot of settings... Believe me, I overcompress every song :D aXel

Punk can indeed be boring, and that is one of the main reasons why it did not sell too good until the age of pop punk dropped in. (And believe me I love the old style punk...). Why are most punk songs sooo múch shorter than pop songs? Because a lot of them tend to be annoying when being too...

Try a hamer p90 for that purpose... Seriously: I own a jcm2000 and have ot say that I love it... But I simply don't use it the way most people do... But you're rite: a JCM800 may sound nicer... Thing is: most stuff will not suffer from a paula being played over a marshall (BTW: you don't need...

Yup, that's the point... People like that fat sound. Sound tends to get fatter and fatter. I doubt that a thin and silent sound will be anything that the punk rock audience will ever wanna hear. So if you wanna do punk rock, do it fat... aXel

High... Already wanted to post some days ago, but then everything was gone as I hit the 'back' button on my damn 'Internet keyboard'... So this time in notepad... dgrady76, I, too have to disagree with a lot of the stuff you say. Most pop punk records use double tracked guitars, and (though I...

Feedback to the bear... Nice articles! aXel

Nice idea! aXel

I added some falsetto background in beach boys style to a punk rock song and it REALLY spiced it up (don't wanna say that it was lame before - hey it was MY song :D :D) aXel