i need help

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Oh boy.... I don't even like this kind of music, but I'll try to help you out.

First of all, we need some info. What kind of sound card are you using? I'm going to take a bet that it's some generic card that may or may not even have a stereo input. If it does, great. You can record two tracks at a time. If not, you're down to one track at a time.

I don't know much about ACID, but if you can record more than one track, it will be useful.

Recording with a click track is often helpful in this scenario, if you can, and starting with bass and drums, then adding guitars and lastly vocals.

And about the vocals. Eating the mic may work live (even though it doesn't), when recording in a studio setting it's completely unneccessary. Do you want people to understand what you're saying or not?

For more help, try the MP3 mixing clinic.

And a tip: People like it when you use punctuation and some kind of structure to a post.
 
start completely over :)

seriously, it sounds like maybe you were in a hurry to get a recording done?

sit down with just a clean guitar sound and a vocalist.
adjust your eq/levels until it sounds somewhat realistic in your headphones
record this over and over until you get a somewhat decent sound

i'm not patronizing you i'm just tryign to tell you there is far too much wrong for anyone to tell you what is wrong :(

no presence anywhere
mud in all bands
all i can hear is some mud with muddy vocals blasting on top of it :( on my speakers there is no distinction whatsoever between the sounds playing. i can't tell drums from vocals from guitar.

i hope i'm helping here.. i'm not trying to discourage you by saying it just sounds terrible. i'm glad to see you're trying. there is a lot of help to be had on these boards but with a recording like this you are probably going to be told to just go to a professional studio :) (which is always the best bet)
but if you're willing to stick it out try and work at it .. and it takes a lot of work. and maybe get something cleaner up here for us to help with :)


my only advice as far as what you have is.. i agree.. don't eat the mic and
CUT THE LOW END :) low end builds up fast .. if you have too many instruments with too much of it it will kill a mix FAST


EDIT: I decided to give it another listen, and a download.

-5 RMS is BAD
it looks like you hard limited the whole mix and pumped up the gain to no end.
do not use this much compression on a song EVER :P
this could be 80% of your problem
let the instruments breathe. i would say this is compressed about 5x what an overcompressed song would be :)
 
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Matheon said:
start completely over :)

seriously, it sounds like maybe you were in a hurry to get a recording done?

sit down with just a clean guitar sound and a vocalist.
adjust your eq/levels until it sounds somewhat realistic in your headphones
record this over and over until you get a somewhat decent sound

i'm not patronizing you i'm just tryign to tell you there is far too much wrong for anyone to tell you what is wrong :(

no presence anywhere
mud in all bands
all i can hear is some mud with muddy vocals blasting on top of it :( on my speakers there is no distinction whatsoever between the sounds playing. i can't tell drums from vocals from guitar.

i hope i'm helping here.. i'm not trying to discourage you by saying it just sounds terrible. i'm glad to see you're trying. there is a lot of help to be had on these boards but with a recording like this you are probably going to be told to just go to a professional studio :) (which is always the best bet)
but if you're willing to stick it out try and work at it .. and it takes a lot of work. and maybe get something cleaner up here for us to help with :)


my only advice as far as what you have is.. i agree.. don't eat the mic and
CUT THE LOW END :) low end builds up fast .. if you have too many instruments with too much of it it will kill a mix FAST


EDIT: I decided to give it another listen, and a download.

-5 RMS is BAD
it looks like you hard limited the whole mix and pumped up the gain to no end.
do not use this much compression on a song EVER :P
this could be 80% of your problem
let the instruments breathe. i would say this is compressed about 5x what an overcompressed song would be :)
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I agree with Matheon, But WTF is that you are playing? Grunge? :eek: Follow the advise above! Im not trying to discourage you but it needs some work! :rolleyes:
 
thanks for replying

i am not compressing it at all the drum tracks and the guitar tracks were recorded live with one mic on 2 guitars and one mic on the drums running into one track i am getting cool edit instead of acid because i have NO options with acid and i am getting some superlux mics really cheap i will post up an new song in a day or two
 
I just think your alittle young to be saying "bastard fuck". But at the same time if your parents dont care I dont care, and if you think swearing will get attention your wrong, Has more of an impact if you never swear then in a song say god damn... hits you like a brick.
 
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