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Here is another cut from the live recording I did earlier this year.

Path


If you missed the first song I posted here you go:

Fly

I recorded the band as a guinea pig experiment of how well my live recording skills would pan out. Because the band did not pay for the recording, they did not give me much of a sound check, so I had to go with a hit-or-miss setup. BTW, the room the show was in is VERY small, so I had to contend with serious mic bleeding and bad acoustics. Not that I am complaining, just something I had to deal with. Although the bass was recorded direct, it did bleed to other mics. I mic’ed the guitar, but it had too much bleed that I did not use it in the mix, so I used my backup, a GI100 direct box. That track actually sounded fatter than the mic track. On the drums I used a D112 on the kick, a Beyerdynamic M-422 on the snare, three E604 and a 421 on the toms, and a C4000B on the overhead. I chose that mic for the overhead because it had a built in pad. I am not going to go into the backup vocal tracks; they are bad…very bad. I thought for yelling and what not, I might be able to slip by. The lead singer used his sure wireless mic. I wanted to redo the vocals in the studio, but he wanted the live vocal feel, so I did what I could to make it work. If it wasn’t for the instrument bleed into his mic, I may have been able to do more with it. In the end, there were no overdubs. The song was recorded through a Mackie 1604 (House Mixer) and two ADATs. I transferred the tracks to the HD24 and used a PC to clean the clean them. The song was then mixed down on the MCI JH416.
 
I think the song lost the last half from uploading it to the server. It should be ok now.
 
I think this could use some bleed.:D

The guitar is really thin, and gets lost behind those huge drums. Maybe you could blend the mic in with the direct to give it some mids. The bass has no definition. There's a lot there, but it's just mud. Some strategic high-passing might help clean it up.
 
Sounds pretty good. The drums really come through on this one.

The guitars sound like they could cut through better and the same for the bass. You almost can't hear it in the mix. I like the vocal, but it seems to be lacking a bit in the high-end. Actually the entire mix sounds like it could use a bit of eq to the high end of the spectrum. It sounds pretty bass heavy, but I think the drums are recorded really well.

They sound like a pretty rockin' band and I like the room sound.

Not bad, maybe just a bit of tweaking needed.

:)
 
I listened to 'Path'. Pretty good sound for live, I thought. That backing vocal sounds like it's got an effect on it. The new pedal from Boss - 'Bleed' LOL. The sound on the drums at the beginning is lovely - really exciting. The vocal sound is fine, but what seems to suffer a bit is guitar definition (yeah, how much definition is there on a heavily distorted guitar? LOL).

Good tune. Good to see you back again too.
 
dobro said:
I listened to 'Path'. Pretty good sound for live, I thought. That backing vocal sounds like it's got an effect on it. The new pedal from Boss - 'Bleed' LOL. The sound on the drums at the beginning is lovely - really exciting. The vocal sound is fine, but what seems to suffer a bit is guitar definition (yeah, how much definition is there on a heavily distorted guitar? LOL).

Good tune. Good to see you back again too.

The guitar player does not seem to mute enough for the amount of distortion he uses, he just cranks it up and let's it go. I threw a little flange on the backing vocal. That mic distrorted way too much. The effect watered down the problem.
 
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