Enchilada said:
I wasn't aware that you used a DMP3. I honestly thought that going on your mp3s you had a far mor expensive pre. I'm greatly limited by my uni room at the moment so I can't really get any kind of decent sound. Do you have any other pres?
I have a couple of different "flavour" mics as I so greatly put it. A V67g and a SP B3. The B3 makes my voice sound roughish and manly. What mics do you have? I was thinking of getting a CAD M37 then saving up for a T3 to add a little more versatility to my mic cabinet but I haven't decided yet.
If you go to my AcidPlanet page (
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=261004&T=520) and look at the song page for "something better" I've got a list of what mic's and equipment I used on the song. I also re-did the song since you commented on it in the mp3 mixing forum - I think it sounds better now.
I'm basically in one room, too. The dmp3 is the only pre I use. I've got an old behringer mx-series mixer that I used before I got the dmp3, but it sucks. Here's what I did for my room to help out my recordings. I've got a little closet, but it's just big enough for me to stand in and even sit in and record acoutic guitars. I padded all the walls with the egg crate stuff they make to put on beds as a pillow-top kind of thing. It's cheap, and probably terrible sound treatment, but it sounds like more of a dead space than without it. The front, back and top of the closet are lined with the egg crate stuff, and there are clothes hanging on either side. All the acoustid and vocals were recorded in there on "Something Better". For the electrics, I just cranked up the amp and stuck a 57 in front of it in the middle of my room. The amp is so loud it didn't really matter (or maybe it does and I just don't know better). I didn't eq terribly much - the dmp3 and mic's really bring out the accurate tone in my opinion.
For recording the acoustic, I used a pair of mxl 603s's. I originally wanted to do an acoustic version, so I did an x/y stereo recording. When I decided to go with the full band version, I just panned it and left it - the acoustics are in the background enough that it didn't matter to me. Vox are with a studio projects C1, with a slight boost in the upper frequencies and a little reverb. I was skeptical about the C1 at first, but I'm loving it now. My vocals sit pretty good in that mix, I think. Electrics were done with an sm57. The rest (drums and bass) is MIDI. I wish I could program decent drums.
Thanks for the compliment. I wish i had a far more expensive pre, but I can't justify spending a whole lot on this stuff - I've got tons of other things going on financially. Besides, I can live with the sound I'm getting. It's not like I'm going to produce a CD and charge $15 bucks a pop for it - I'll more likely make one and start giving it away, haha.
