Hi guys.
Hopefully this is the right thread for this post.
My band recorded three songs (released as singles) with our label using a professional studio, experienced engineers and professional mastering.
We’re no longer a part of the label but have all copyright to the songs. We’d like to record three new songs to put on a mini album alongside the existing three.
My question is in regards to matching the quality of the new songs with the previous ones.
I reckon we could use a new sound engineer and achieve a similar quality but how could we ensure that all six tracks are ‘cohesive’ and sound like they belong on the same album? I guess one option would be to have all six mastered by the same engineer? (we have the unmastered versions of the first three songs).
As an alternative (and a project for me), we could record the new tracks on our own using my home studio. I’m an amateur at best but should be able to achieve a fairly (if slightly less) similar quality of recording with some effort. If we went down this route, how could we ensure that all six tracks sound fairly cohesive?
Any thoughts/opinions/advice would be much appreciated.
Hopefully this is the right thread for this post.
My band recorded three songs (released as singles) with our label using a professional studio, experienced engineers and professional mastering.
We’re no longer a part of the label but have all copyright to the songs. We’d like to record three new songs to put on a mini album alongside the existing three.
My question is in regards to matching the quality of the new songs with the previous ones.
I reckon we could use a new sound engineer and achieve a similar quality but how could we ensure that all six tracks are ‘cohesive’ and sound like they belong on the same album? I guess one option would be to have all six mastered by the same engineer? (we have the unmastered versions of the first three songs).
As an alternative (and a project for me), we could record the new tracks on our own using my home studio. I’m an amateur at best but should be able to achieve a fairly (if slightly less) similar quality of recording with some effort. If we went down this route, how could we ensure that all six tracks sound fairly cohesive?
Any thoughts/opinions/advice would be much appreciated.