hey i'm new. first recordings....

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here are a few of my first real recordings. i'm not happy with them, but i need suggestions and stuff like that, so here they are.



the lead part is off because i went through the mic jack, so it was delayed a bit, i'm gonna try to fix that

 
First off... if you negative reputation me for giving you an honest opinion that IS NOT a personal attack against you I'm going to be ticked off, because these comments are to help you.

Now that we got that over with:

the guitar tone is absolutely wretched. All lows and shrill highs. I understand you are probably using a direct device, but you *can* get good tones off it if you put some real effort into it. It's also too loud in the mix.

The hard panned synth (guitar?) line sounds very unnatural in that position in the stereo spectrum.

What gives with the drums being in the background? Push 'em up--especially kick and snare. If those aren't rocking, your song is NOT rocking. Kick and snare are the pulse of most modern music.

Don't make the typical guitar player mistake of boosting up the guitars to make it "heavy." Guitars don't make stuff heavy, the bass and drums do! The guitar just adds edge. As it stands now you have way too much edge and no heaviness.

I also get the feeling that you haven't done anything compression/eq wise to the tracks. You want to master those two effects! The heart and soul of mixing, next to setting base levels, is dialing in the right compression and eq settings.

Make sure to dedicate seperate tracks for each drum or stereo group (i.e. toms, overheads) of the drums. Each one needs its own processing and settings.

Clean guitar in the second track sounds nice though. Good job on that. Reminds me of Johnny Marr.
 
your timing jumps in and out, if it's because of the delay thing it should be relatively simple to slide the track forward a few milliseconds. i guess that depends on what gear you're using and if you have that capability. i'm into most any style of music, and if a song/track is good despite a bad recording i can live with it, but offtime playing just puts me off. you have some cool sounds, but they need to be balanced and EQ'd a lot better. i could take your drumtracks and make them POP, and so can you. try to get rid of the muffled sound and maybe use some compression & volume to make the drums jump out. mixed the way it is, it reminds me of Ween's "The Pod" album, but without the charm. that album sounds the way it does because they did the whole thing on a cheap 4-track with low-bias tape. i hope you're using something a little better than that, but if not, you can work with it. keep at it!
 
Can you give us a description of the equipment you used? (What you recorded into, what mics were used, how were the drums miced, was it all mixed down to one track live or muti-track,what out-board effects did you use, what pluggins did you use, etc) that sort of stuff.

It's a kewl song, needs a bit mixing. And yes, Let's hear those drums ROCK! And lighten up on that lead what-ever-it was a little.
 
The drum tracks were a drum machine, right?

They did sound washed out. You just need to take Cloneboy's advise, and remix them. Make sure you have a decent monitoring chain (good monitors will save you every time), and take some time to listen to each track in the mix. Everything I could hear was stepping on everyting else, and there was little separation.

Overall, not bad. But it could have been much better. There is some talent there, musically, you just need to develope the recording side...
 
ok here's me setup:

ibanez rg340 into a rocktron wah, into a boss metal zone then a dod grunge then a boss eq, then a digitech rp50 then to a line 6 pod (not used in 'acid') then straight to the comp.

i re-recorded the second one.

i think i just need to fade the bass out a little quicker at the end.

i'm trying to rerecord the first one again, but i keep messing up with the lead.

as for the drums, they're coming out of my rp50, so all i can do is eq it with the pod and in acid.
 
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