No midi, no samples, please evaluate.

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I am in the beginning of recording tracks for a friend in Canada via the internet. Though I'm probably not supposed to post this I thought I'd get opinions of the tracks I recorded for him. All he sent me was some guitar tracks and rough vocals to work from. He asked me to do a lot of percussion for this one, and although I could have played something off a drum machine or samples, I thought I would go the manual route and do it with all real instruments and mic everything. This was an interesting way to do it. I locked myself up all alone in the studio and ran the DAW from a laptop behind the kit via remote desktop.

Please tell me what you think.

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PhilGood said:
I am in the beginning of recording tracks for a friend in Canada via the internet. Though I'm probably not supposed to post this I thought I'd get opinions of the tracks I recorded for him. All he sent me was some guitar tracks and rough vocals to work from. He asked me to do a lot of percussion for this one, and although I could have played something off a drum machine or samples, I thought I would go the manual route and do it with all real instruments and mic everything. This was an interesting way to do it. I locked myself up all alone in the studio and ran the DAW from a laptop behind the kit via remote desktop.

Please tell me what you think.

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Sounds pretty good. I think the kick and snare are a little "dark" for the song. The kick can use a little more attack presence and the snare could use a little more snap. Bongos and shit sound good.
 
There's no EQ on anything. These are just the raw tracks.

You're right, they could be brighter.
 
Hi Phil, drums & perc sound very good to me. I´m listening through pc speakers and I can´t feel the kick. The snare was all over the place. If you´re going to send a rough mix of your drums my suggestion will be check the snare vs bd.
Nice tune BTW.
TS
 
Yeah, kick is awol on my cheap pc speaks.

Let me pull this up on the monitors when I get home...
 
The drums sound really good!

I think the percussion is not helping the groove... I gets in the way, is way to busy (IMHO)...

I think a shaker would compliment the track much better than the bongoes that you used... (I´m just guessing saying you used a bongoe):)

Do you mind sharing the signal chain and the equipment used on that session?

Thanks
 
Nice

I liked the treatment. That didn't sound like bongos, it sounded like a djembe, was it?
 
Its bongos.

I did a lot of percussion to allow my friend to pull up what he wants and dial down what he doesn't. I just did what I assumed might help fill in the track.

The kick is a little low in my mix, but I wanted it kind of soft. Too loud and it over-powers the mix. I'm sending him each instrument as a separate wav file and he can mix it himself to taste.

TS, I don't know what you mean "all over the place". I hope it isn't referring to timing. I really don't want to have to play the track again and it seemed OK to me timing-wise. I don't practice as often as I used to and my ears are going.

As far as the signal chain, its pretty straight up.

Mics:

Toms & snare: GLS ES-57s
Kick: CAD KBM412
Overheads: (my special mods) MXL2003

all sent through a Ramsa mixer. Used the built in pres. No EQ.

Each track is sent individually to an input on the DAW. Toms are summed to 2 tracks.

I recorded the bongos with a 58. The triangle with a Superlux LDC. I didn't go crazy and pull out the top notch mics I have. That might of helped, but I wanted easy.

The softer middle tones and really deep tone of the lope are my toms played with tympani mallets.
 
Phil, sorry about my english. It sucks.
What I try to say is that the snare is too loud. The kick is so low that I can barely feel it. But this is your mix. If you are going to send the tracks to your friend and he will mix it by his own forget what I said.
TS
 
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Couldn't really hear much at work but i'll have time tonight to have a listen in my studio...

Cool that you did all the parts 'pure' :)






(and sumpin about your sig quote seems vaguely familiar... lol)

:p
 
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