First Song EVER Recorded!

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These are pretty cool. I'm still just listening, going back to the beginning of the thread while I search my music file closet for old stuff.

Tim
 
ecktronic said:
Here is one of the first recording I ever done. Not the first but pretty much the same quality anyway. (watch this is quite a loud one, I mastered it on the BR1180 when i didnt know what i was doing)
Song: "OLD"


And here is another old song, but incorperating samples into it.
Song: "ELECTRIC"

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/archamedies_music.htm

Equipment used: Guitar (direct)
Bass (direct)
Electrez mic!! (shiter)
Boss BR1180 home studio
Fruity loops software

Enjoy.......... well try at least! :D
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Old - Awesome song, I love the piano parts. The electric drone is cool too, your very creative!

Electric - again very creative, reminds me of Stabbing Westard, very cool. I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get something like that, great job!
 
VSpaceBoy said:
Old - Awesome song, I love the piano parts. The electric drone is cool too, your very creative!

Electric - again very creative, reminds me of Stabbing Westard, very cool. I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get something like that, great job!
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Woahh :shocked: Thanks man.
"Electric" is a cool song I think, but I just cant listen to it the same after one of my mates said it reminded him of the "Back street boys" !! Can you hear any similarity? Yahh hope not or I might stop music as my religion!!
 
OOOOOpps. Forgot to put "Piano" into the gear list. Piano wa my main starting point for these songs and most of my old songs actually. Just wish i could have got a decent sound from it as its a great piano.
 
Okay folks, this was my first recording ever of an actual band :D, This is miles away from the other stuff on this post, but it still fits the bill of a first recording! I pretty much hate the song, hate the vocals especially, and hate the sound of it altogether, but hey this is where I started! By the way this was my band from a few years back and it is a little abrasive in case you can't stand the screamin' and hollerin', but I like the guitar solo! :D :D


 
That a cool song, and a great recording! Thats not your first, your just showin off. :eek: :D
 
VSpaceBoy said:
That a cool song, and a great recording! Thats not your first, your just showin off. :eek: :D
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Not my first recording ever, but honestly the first time I ever recorded anything but myself and a drum machine, I swear! I recorded a 5 song demo for us and spent forever trying to get it right... :o ,glad you like it tho!
 
metalhead28 said:
Not my first recording ever, but honestly the first time I ever recorded anything but myself and a drum machine, I swear! I recorded a 5 song demo for us and spent forever trying to get it right... :o ,glad you like it tho!
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Woahh realy good for a first recording of a band. No way. Im not even gonna put my first band recording up as it just sounds rubbish compared to this. :(
 
metalhead28 said:
Okay folks, this was my first recording ever of an actual band :D, This is miles away from the other stuff on this post, but it still fits the bill of a first recording! I pretty much hate the song, hate the vocals especially, and hate the sound of it altogether, but hey this is where I started! By the way this was my band from a few years back and it is a little abrasive in case you can't stand the screamin' and hollerin', but I like the guitar solo! :D :D


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metalhed..great song. Very impressive. I think you did a good job with this. When was it done?
Ed
 
ecktronic said:
Woahh realy good for a first recording of a band. No way. Im not even gonna put my first band recording up as it just sounds rubbish compared to this. :(
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An interesting thing I did with that demo that I cringe to think about today was the "ghetto" limiting :D I had about 8 tracks, with many of them at or near peaking out individually, and without bussing them to any kind of master I just routed them all through my soundcard individually and mixed down to a single track, which I brought back into the software as a totally hot track that pegged out at 0 db without clipping for nearly the whole song! Because I wasn't seeing the overall level anywhere, I didn't even think about the clipping when I mixed it down! Then I attempted some primitive "mastering" to that track with eq, etc. I could not hear all the digital distortion at the time, and even today I don't think it is all that bad, but man I really thought I was on to something back then! :D .....sorry to ramble on - just bringing back some memories!
 
Dogman said:
metalhed..great song. Very impressive. I think you did a good job with this. When was it done?
Ed
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Thanks dogman, it was about 2 years ago. It was done with 2 sm57's, a dirt cheap samson condenser mic, an old AKG floor tom mic on the kick, and the preamps of my mackie live mixer. I had no compressor or outboard gear at the time, I even went in and cut the kick and snare tracks into individual hits and normalized them to even out my drummer's playing...cause he hit like a pussy :D! Good times....good times... :cool:
 
Very nostalgic hearing these and looking through my old stuff too. You guys were pretty quick to get a good sound with first recordings. And some of you obviously have the magic engineering touch to have it sound THAT good (or you're lying through your teeth, you b*starsds). I, on the other hand had to explore every possibility for getting a terrible sound before stumbling onto any methods that worked. Transferring some things to wav right now. I'll see how they come out and post later.

Tim
 
Timothy Lawler said:
You guys were pretty quick to get a good sound with first recordings.
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Well I know your not talking about mine, it sounded bad. But hey, I've come along way!! (I think!)

Looking forward to hearing yours!
 
Here are a couple of my early recordings. The first is an oboe/guitar duet rec live at a concert, the 2nd is an excerpt from a solo gtr piece, close mic’d. Both used crap mic’s. The 1st had distant mic’ing (about 20 ft) to cassette tape and relied on the hall for any quality of sound it had, as I just set up the mic’s in AB config, and left it. I was on gtr, and a much better musician than I was at the time was on the oboe. He makes the performance. The 2nd used close mic’ing, at the soundhole actually, as I couldn’t get enough gain otherwise with the setup I had a the time. You don’t know how hard it was not to process the hell out of these files before I posted them. But as they are, nothing was done except to normalize them.





Tim
 
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Tim, BRAVO!
I'll tell you this much, both of those performances are so good that any shortcomings of the actual recordings aren't even an issue. I would say that on the first one the recording quality and tone of the guitar almost add a certain kind of vibe to it and I really like hearing it that way, if that makes any sense. The second one is just beautiful!, sure you could polish that recording up real nice but it still stands up on the performance itself and that is more than any recording skills will get you! Enjoyed those very much.
 
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