guitar/drums/i suck

[BRIEFCASEMANX]

The drummer is terrible, the band has only practiced 6 times total and they have 4 songs, and I had the BASS ROLLOFF ENGAGED ON MY 421 WHEN RECORDING THE KICK! AHa!@#%@$^SLDFA;SDF. Any suggestions for making this sound better would be appreciated.....especially the nasty kick drum.

 

[Supercreep]

The recording techniques you use are going to be the least of your problems here. The song, IMHO, will never rise above the level of the performances that went into it.


BTW, the kick dosen't sound too bad really.

 

[xfinsterx]

Heh, its kinda cute.
It sounds like little kids trying to learn to play.

Anyways.

You havent done bad at all here Brief.

The band on the otherhand.... they need some help.

 

[shackrock]

yeah, drummer sucks. ha.
kick sounds pretty decent to me, as does the snare..and toms. ha.
guitar tone sucks.
guitarist needs more riffs. ha.


recording itself has potential though, keep practicing.

 

[BRIEFCASEMANX]

The guitar tone sucks? hmmmmm.....maybe it's my fault. Anything I could change that you can point out? I thought it sounded okay, his setup is pretty decent. 60's Gretsch guitar(although i think it has some intonation problems, and it goes out of tune really easily)>Big Muff>60's fender head(clean, no distortion channel)> orange 2x10 cab. I recorded them with a 57 and 421 and a soundelux u195(farther back and mixed in very very very low) into a Chandler TG2 pre with lots of gain and the output fader rolled back.

No matter what anyone says I don't like the kick, or the cymbals. I used SP c4's and they sounded pretty weird/harsh. I'll try them out a few more times but I may end up upgrading to something like a Josephson c42 pair. Somehow I feel like I am too unexperienced as of yet to be buying all this expensive gear. I don't start taking classes on recording til this fall and I am just reading books/internet stuff.