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Thanks for your offer! Right now I'm on a self-imposed "keeping it real"-trip, though. 🤷‍♀️ I'm really contemplating my options of making real strings work. And "not having budgeted, yet", does not mean "there won't be any budget". I've been looking a this, for example: Remote recording in...

Thanks! I don't have yet budgeted for it as I really don't have any point of reference. I will poke around fiverr, but it seems to be a pretty exploitive and price gauging environment. I'd prefer a kinda established, independent service, I guess.

Thanks for your reply! To put things into context, I'm a classically trained cellist, I played double bass in a bigband for 5 years, I've had my share of bad sheets to read. 🥸 My partner is a trained violin and viola player. A friend of mine is a studied (and competent) composer/arranger. He...

Hello everyone, I haven't been around for quite some time. I'm looking to add real strings tom my next recordings. DIY is a royal pain, finding and scheduling competent players and decent rooms and doing proper recording on location. Over the last few years a cottage industry of remote...

Sorry, I've been off for a coulpe of days. I'd personally slam that vocal with compression, to the point where the syllable endings don't fall off any more. Just pin the meters. And then generously add some reverb in the lines of whatever Depeche Mode used. This would be my first impulse, trying...

Bass is totally inaudible on laptop speakers, and I'm missing a bit of delay or reverb on anything for a bit of depth of field. Everything feels so upfront. It is a great recording, though, good performances, good tones and all. Big thumbs up! I get this kinda vibe from this recording: This...

I'm missing dynamics, the whole thing feels totally static to me. There's no intro, the guitars just start hammering away with the doubled leads, the female vocals don't add anything unheard yet... I'd add in some kind of intro, drop the doubles (or the doubler) in the verses, vary the intensity...

Hey guys and gals, I had to take a few steps back and get perspective again. Then I had to chew on my pride for quite some time before I could swallow it. :drunk: All this parallel processing tomfoolery really just led to a distracting, phasey mess. So, I kinda pulled it all back, stuck with...

So, I tried to make the vocals sit better, and I guess I'm really fighting digital mixing here. In the analogue domain it would be so much easier to add a bit of dirt and grease... I put an instance of reapers own "Convolution Amp/Cab Modeller" with a Deluxe model in parallel to the main vox...

So, the point of separate tracking rooms and vocal booths is isolation. If you track drums and you want to be able to monitor in real time, what's going on, you need a tracking room with hefty isolation from your control room. If you have a rock band tracking live with a singer, you need a vocal...

Pick one model of synth to start with, pick a few instruments and try to make the synth sound like the instrument. A clarinet, for example, would be a good starting point. Research what makes the clarinet sound (mostly squarewaves), listen to enough clarinet to give yourself a mental imprint of...

Practice. Listening a lot, watching people do it and researching stuff on the interwebz helps, but in the end it really comes down to putting in the hours.

Thanks, I'll try to drop the vocals a bit and see if that helps. I think I'm overcompensating for the fact that I try to bury my vocal tracks... Yeah, I'm a Kraut, and come from a classical background, where pronunciation is super important. But, when the main criticism is that I don't sound...

I'd mangle the vocals harder. They are a bit raw and too natural for me to work in this context, some more polish and sheen would make them fit in better, to my taste, think Depeche Mode. And the drums are to uniformous throughout, go wild with them! Just my 2cents...

Hey Kerfoot23, I've got the cymbal bells poking out a bit in the end. The main vocals give me a bit of weird vibe here, they sound pitch corrected at times but some notes sound way off. Do you use correction? If yes, check the notes you corrected to. (Been there, done that...:eatpopcorn: )...

Hey Andrush, thanks for listening and commenting! I construed the drums to have a kinda 4/4-Rock beat, but follow the bass with the kick drum, so I arrived at that part. What would your approach be like to get more 'idiomatic' drum parts? I'll consult a few drummer friends, though, thanks for...

Hey spantini, thank you for taking your time to listen and comment! I am still recovering from a severe throat infection I had a whil back and so I am pretty self-conscious about my singing. I really can't do better at the moment, but I'm working on getting better. (Not making excuses, here. I...

Hey guys and gals, after some years of just doing writing demos and occasional demo recordings for acoustic duos, I decided to do a small EP of original songs, start to finish. I had to move on the way, so I had to change rooms and I'm still not totally used to my new environment, so I'd like...

I have a good supply of heat shrink tube and I am handy with a soldering iron. Plus I will have more or less stationary sources, so I should be fine with finicky cables and connectors. Connectors with belt clips could be a good option... but I guess I'll let them break first before I crack out...

Thanks Jeffery, that's endorsement enough for all I need :-)