Muffled Sounding /Too Much Low End - Recordings

[Yukrane]

Hey!

I'm very new to these forums first off. Sorry if someone has already posted something like this before or something...

I have been having some trouble lately with muffled sounding recordings, and thought that someone might be able to get me some help if they got a listen to them.
I recorded myself playing a little ditty on the drums and have mixed down the raw tracks (which sound especially dull and muffled), as well as a fully eq'd, compressed, verbed, tracks which I took a CRAP TON of low end out of yet they still sound muffled. I have set the gain as far as it will go without the drums peaking on the tracks.

I have no bass traps or acoustic treatment in the basement of my house, which is where I record. The ceiling tiles down here are actually slightly acoustically treated (says the person who put them in). The carpet is very thin and has concrete underneath. The walls are wood paneling and painted brick. I was thinking of moving a snare outside or something sometime to try and compare what it sounds like in my basement to what is sounds like out there.

Please any suggestions or comments would be AWESOME!

My crappy recording rig for drums :

- Tascam-1800 Interface going into my comp via usb
- Custom Gaming Computer Running Reaper
- D6 Kick
- i5 Top of Snare, CAD Pro Snare Mic bottom
- MXL 991 Hi-Hat
- Some Mics from the CAD Pro 7 mic kit on toms and the two overheads that came with it
- Mixing on two Yamaha Hs80ms with response set to flat

 

[Chili]

Sounds pretty darn good to me. Kick might be a tad bit louder than necessary, but it's got a nice meaty thump. I like it. Hihat, snare and crashes are balanced, if not slightly crispy, which means not muffled at all.

Makes me think your monitoring environment is not so good. The untreated room will have a lot to do with that. What are you listening with?

Also, if by 'muffled' you mean quiet, then don't worry about that. Especially with the US-1800 headphone out; notoriously under-powered. You'll get more volume when you master or finalize your finished song.

For now, concentrate on correcting your listening environment. Good monitors and acoustically treated room.