BR 1600cd samples. 2 questions.

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Hey, here are some clips of a band i recorded. These are NOT mastered.

My contention has always been that the mastering tool kit in the br-1600, is just more eqing and compression that could have been done in the first place in your mixing stage, and the tool kit does not do anything more to improve a already decent recording. Just my opinion, so i was wondering the following. Please feel free to be brutally honest. Im trying to gauge how much i could charge for a demo recording for other bands. the following clips were recorded free of charge since I am still in the learning phase of doing entire bands.

Also, i have no delusions of getting a pro recording out of the BR-1600, i know its a amature type studio. A good demo is all was shooting for with these recordings.

Two questions....

1) Can you hear anything that a mastering job would help these recordings?

2) Compared to other Br-1600/desktop recordings you've heard, do these sound pretty good?

thanks and here are the clips....(bottom of page, band is called dominion)

http://metaljohnson.com/page901.html
 
Hmmm...I think the mastering could take a bit of the muddiness out (listening to "Man In The Box")

Sounding pretty good though! Especially the vox, mind if I ask what your signal chain was?
 
FunkDaddy said:
Hmmm...I think the mastering could take a bit of the muddiness out (listening to "Man In The Box")

Sounding pretty good though! Especially the vox, mind if I ask what your signal chain was?
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thanks for the reply funkdaddy.

signal chain on the vocals was, Shure KSM27 straight into the xlr channel input. thats it.

could you give me any specifics on the muddiness, like what freq's to take out or what exactly would you do?? would you use the multiband compressor? or just re EQ it? Im just trying to learn.

thanks
 
I might just EQ the mids up a touch. The EQ on the mastering with the BR1600 I fine to be MUCH more sensitive than EQing during mixing, even +1db would probably do it.

It's all a matter of taste, I've had quite a lot of trouble finding a good mixing process with my BR1600 and find the mastering step to help a lot. The beauty of DIY is that you can afford to waste time tinkering around with different settings.
 
If it's similar to the BR1180, the mastering EQ has more channels than the loop EQ, so you have more control during mastering.
 
FunkDaddy said:
I might just EQ the mids up a touch. .
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Do you know what frequency you would start at ?? mids are a pretty broad spectrum?

thanks
 
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