Open sounding recordings.

[Freudian Slip]

If I really wanted to get a professional sound, and I had a choice between working with high end mics, pres, etc. or the high end instruments ... I'll take the $10,000 drum kit and the boutique amps, etc. any day. Give me that mega bucks drum kit with the $1K crash cymbals, a pair of Oktavas, a Mackie board and a Delta 1010 ... and I'll cut us some really nice sounding drum tracks.

Give me the average drum kit along with some Schoeps mics and custom-racked API's, and I might not be as happy.
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How true, and nowhere truer than with drums imho. At least given every thing else is of reasonable quality.

F.S.

PS: this song is not that bad it's pretty good in fact. Keep plugging and do a bunch of trial short recording of drums messing with drum placement and tuning. Drums recordings can't be fixed much during mixing.

 

[mrdarkside2k3]

I use a program called Classic Chorus on some of my tracks to help broaden the feeling of the song. You set it so that you get effects coming with it or not. I think it adds a lot of depth to my songs. It's a free plugin if you are workin through a computer. I hope that this helps. Also keep workin at it and learning. That helped me through the past 10 years. Nothing is greater than experience. Even cheap equipment can sound great.