mshilarious said:
I'll be posting my entry over the weekend, a POS song I did 5 years ago, when I first got a DAW and had no idea how to record
OK, boys and girls, here it is, listen and weep. And yes, you will weep, because it is the worst crap you have ever heard. I mean Jesse Michael Garcia would turn up his nose at this:
Wretch!
The embarassing part was while the song is obviously a joke, the recording wasn't supposed to be. Since I'm sure you will all want to replicate (not emulate!) these techniques, I will share what I remember from my session notes, from the days when I was a recording virgin:
The vocals were (no, not me) distorted naturally, by barfing into an SM58 while eating it. Preamps were
Peavey RQ200 
, into Yamaha AX44 converters (actually not too shabby for its day). Vocals were harmonized in parts up and down a tritone
Guitars were recorded direct into the AX44 (I don't recall if there was an impedance mismatch there, but I think it did have an instrument input), and hideous distortion generated with the DS2416's onboard amp sim, as with all the other effects--harmonizer, reverb (around 70% wet), chorus.
Drums were close-miced using 2 SM94s in A-B configuration, maybe 18" above their cymbals. The snare and kick were miced with SM57s. No, I can't play drums, thank you for noticing!
The too-loud offending guitar part is a 2 1/2 fret harmonic played across all 6 strings, every beat of the song, until the breakdown, when I think I switched to the 4th fret, or maybe 5th. For those who don't know what the 2 1/2 fret harmonic is, it's a minor seventh, except in the perfect intonation scale, so it's rather dissonant
Except for the guitar, gain staging was notoriously poor, so every track would have been normalized after recording
, often with gain in the 18-24dB range
Thus, there is no distortion from clipping the converter--it's mostly from mixing 0dBFS tracks together
I could have fixed that, but that would have lowered my RMS
Which, by the way, is -9.07dB. Dogman is still in the lead!
I intend to redeem myself Monday with a competent guitar track on the Piezo Rumble
