My old band's mp3s...

[tf5_bassist]

Hey, new to the forum here... Already plastered my name all over the Newbie forum hehehe, so I thought i'd explore a bit more.

First off, you guys are lucky my band broke up, otherwise I'd be hard pressed to pimp us out at every corner *LOL*... But since we're dead and done for... Might as well post some stuff for listening...

http://www.mp3.com/toefinger5

There's a ton of tracks up... there's some of the songs from "Under Destruction", our first full-length CD, recorded late 2000-early 2001... and then there's all the tracks from our last one, "Between Faces", recorded from 2001-2002. All in an old-school analog studio... Our recording guy does this as a hobby as he is nowhere near a "professional", but it was fun... Our mixing came out blah (NO GOOD MONITORS! AAARGH!)... But i think we had some decent songs... Go ahead and listen if you wanna' kill some time rockin' out to some good ol'.. uh... rock.

Lemme know what you think! ^_^

Louie

 

[theron]

tf5_bassist,

I listen to "loosing you"? (the first song).
Mix sounds muddy. Maybe overcompressed. The git gets way way lost. It sneaks in now and again.

from what I could tell, it's a driving tune but, the mix is ruining it.

Can you remix it?


Peace,
theron.

 

[Track Rat]

I'm listening to the first one as well. Hmmmm....The guitars are lost in the mush. Drums are in the same fog. The vocal just sits on top of the mix and not in it. I'm not busting your balls on this, just pointing out some things that catch my attention. It's not a bad tune at all.
What did you record to? Mics and preamps? Mix down?

 

[tf5_bassist]

You know, Theron, we didn't use any compression on "Losing You", oddly enough. As I said, just mixed HORRIBLY... And no, we can't go back and remix it... our original reels are probably all erased... I've got the stereo DAT tape at the studio, but that's it. I would love to go back and remix it but with better outboard gear and a half-way decent monitor setup... The speakers were the reason why it's so horrible... Thought it sounded good in the studio, and came out horribly on everything else. *shrugs* Also sounded damn decent in my drummer's truck, too. Go figure.

Track Rat... You know, strangest thing... I play it on the Dreamcast through our shitty oldschool RCA tv, it sounds decent... Play it in my drummer's truck, sounds fine... Play it on my computer with the bass on my speakers up, sound shitty... turn the bass half-way down, sounds decent... But you're right, the instruments were not mixed down right at all... None of us are pros or anything at all... But that's what we came up with. As far as our recording setup...

Drums: Nady4-piece kit (I think it was a four), two condenser mics (one sony, one other), and a SM57 on the hihat.

Bass: I think we used the Nady kick-drum mic actually heh... either that or the Nady kick mic and my SM58

Guitar: SM58 and another mic (i forgot)

Vocals: Inexpensive Peavey studio large diaphram mic

No preamps -_-'.... Everything directly into the board... Outboard effects consisted of a Digitech S100 and an Alesis Nanoverb (God I love that thing! Linear delay all the way!!). Was tracked and mixed down using a TAC Scorpion board onto a 8-track reel, the reel master mixed down to a DAT (not an ADAT), and then the dat burned to CD.

Yes, Ghetto-fied, but it worked. My biggest gripe is still the monitor situation. EQing was pretty much worthless in the end. Oh well... That's why I'm getting my own setup...