wbcsound
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I finally got a chance to create an archival site for my old band Floodwaters on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/floodwaterstexas). Why am I posting about it here?
The songs uploaded were all from our original demos which got us plenty of gigs. Here was our setup:
All drums were recorded with 3 mics: SM57 on snare, unknown model Samson bass drum mic, and no name brand dynamic overhead (Fostex?) to Fostex 2-track (4 track only allowing 2 tracks at a time) cassette (bass drum and over head to one track and snare to the other) and transfered to Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 using an SB Live sound card.
Guitars were a Valvestate Marshall Half stack miced with the SM57 or a Line 6 Flextone direct into the Fostex as a mic pre and into the SB live line in.
Vocals were also an SM57 into the Fostex as a mic pre and into the SB live line in.
Keyboard (Korg X5D) and bass were also recorded direct using the above method.
The vast majority of processing was done with Cakewalks bundled effects or printed during tracking (guitar effects).
Does it sound like a pro NY studio using $10,000 mic pres? Absolutely not but it got the job done on an absolute shoestring budget with bare minimal equipment. All this was done in 1999 on a pitiful computer by today's standards (early Pentium) and we had to constantly bounce tracks because the box just didn't have the memory to run a bunch of tracks with effects.
Moral of the story? Don't blame the equipment, just find a way to get it done the best you can...
The songs uploaded were all from our original demos which got us plenty of gigs. Here was our setup:
All drums were recorded with 3 mics: SM57 on snare, unknown model Samson bass drum mic, and no name brand dynamic overhead (Fostex?) to Fostex 2-track (4 track only allowing 2 tracks at a time) cassette (bass drum and over head to one track and snare to the other) and transfered to Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 using an SB Live sound card.
Guitars were a Valvestate Marshall Half stack miced with the SM57 or a Line 6 Flextone direct into the Fostex as a mic pre and into the SB live line in.
Vocals were also an SM57 into the Fostex as a mic pre and into the SB live line in.
Keyboard (Korg X5D) and bass were also recorded direct using the above method.
The vast majority of processing was done with Cakewalks bundled effects or printed during tracking (guitar effects).
Does it sound like a pro NY studio using $10,000 mic pres? Absolutely not but it got the job done on an absolute shoestring budget with bare minimal equipment. All this was done in 1999 on a pitiful computer by today's standards (early Pentium) and we had to constantly bounce tracks because the box just didn't have the memory to run a bunch of tracks with effects.
Moral of the story? Don't blame the equipment, just find a way to get it done the best you can...