New First Track

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This is a track recorded with 2 ambient mic's. So the guitars and vocals are together on the tracks. I recorded a 2nd guitar part, and a vocal background track to see if i could mix it together. I added some effects to try and give it some life ! Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated as i am a newbie to recording and playing guitar.
Thanks,
Lindsay
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Not too bad for a first time. Is that a twelve string your playing? If your a newbie to playing guitar, it doesn't really show. as far as the mix, your vocals get lost on parts of it. Try compressing it a little and see if it brings up the lower parts a little more equal to the parts where you are louder. You may want to try and EQ both so they have their own "space". Background vocals sound good. Great job.
 
Thank you Bruthish. I'm playing a 6 string. I've been playing about 2 years. would you compress and eq each track, or the master ? Thanks for the kind words
 
You could do each individual track or send the guitars to 1 stereo bus and the vocals to another and do the adjustments there and all the tracks riding on that bus will get the same effects. However, with so few tracks you could probably do each individual part and tailor it to your liking. First thing I would do is roll off the bass frequencies on the vocals and see if they "sit" a little better in the mix. The guitars also have a some mid to high frequencies that will need to be played around with. The high strings are coming through pretty dominantly. Mic placement is crucial. If your mono mic'ing try to focusing the mc around the 12th-14th fret and stay away from the sound hole. Just my unprofessional opinion...
 
Pretty good first attempt, but I hope you have discovered that tracking vocals and guitar separately is going to make it much easier to adjust everything. If you have problems with timing, then reocrd the first track as a scratch track with guitar + vocal, then go back, record the guitar on separate track(s), then vocals. Mute/delete the scratch track and mix!
 
Thanks Mike
Yes i knew it wasn't going to be what i was looking for. There were 2 of us playing in my living room one nite. and we wanted to make a recording so we could get an idea what we sounded like. Since then I've gotten some home recording stuff, so i used the track to learn how to do some stuff !! I'll record separately
from now on !!!!
Thanks again
 
Are you Neil Young?

Your vocal gets lost a bit. You could compress it to stabilize it.

What do you mean exactly by "ambient" mics? Room mics? A combination of a close mic and "real" room mic (not just a meter away, like faaaar away) would probably serve you best.
Your mic is definitely picking up the higher frequencies of the strings a lot more than the lower ones. Are you using a really hard pick or very new, bright strings? I would have preferred to have heard some more low end and body of the acoustic guitar. That's where the instrument really gets its warmth.
 
By ambient, i mean room mic's. We didn't really set up for optimal sound. Just put them out and played. Thanks for the input. I like the warm sound better too.. I'll work on it !!! The guy i'm playing with is just learning to play with a pick, he gets a little heavy with it.
Thanks again … i will learn to use compression also !!!
 
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