uhm, thanks.....
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Original post was as follows:
SEDstar.
that was pretty good sedstar.
I thought the guitar could have played a more prominent role in your blend.
And the tone on the snare seemed to lack brightness.
Overall sound quality was pretty good though!
About the recording....
Yep this is a turd of a recording man, no doubt.
But turd polishing can be fun.
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Response is as follows:
wow. Thanks. Butr you dont have to be kind just because I'm a newbie. lol. Guitar could have played a more prominent role? yah...i had a problem with the guitar. at first i just read in all the tracks into my software, and just, you know, had a listen without doing anything? just adjusting volume, no pans or comp or anything. See what stood out as good or bad. I was getting this "Boom Boom" thing. I kept turning down the kick drum track, turned down the bass guitar track, I'm like where the HELL is that huge bass boom coming from? All 3 toms down and it STILL boomed my meter...turned out to be the guitar. I never would have guessed. Did the guitar mic get some kinda pronounced bass effect from proximity or something? Rolling off the bottom didnt even begin to get rid of that booming. I finally snooped around a 100hz at a time with a scientific filter, using band pass and band cuts. There was this narrow little bandlike 135-140 or so that was doing it. I tried cutting it, but it left the guitar kinda thin. I didnt want to "effect the guitar up" like a newbie, so thats how that happened.
the snare lacked brightness? thats putting it mildly. I wasnt happy with the snare at all. I think i didnt gate it right, or else i compressed it wrong or something. I swear, some of the bleed on one of the tom tracks had the best snare, cymbals and hi hat sounds on it. I tried taking the snare out of that, using noise reduction,. and saving the noise (snare and cymbal...) but it didnt quite work.
So it really wasnt that bad? cool. i guess i aint in the running to win, tho, huh. Oh well, ill spend more than coule hours on the NEXT contest (wink) and take it more seriously.
PS - you call it polishing a turd, you dont know what a turd is. I have a set of three "disaster tracks" i constantly remix for practice. They're so bad i figure if i can make one sound good, the before/after experience would make someone pay me. Picture it---> 1.98 taiwan condenser mic that came with the computer...mono 22k or so sampling...bleed over from HELL. The bleed from
acoustic guitar track threatens to drown out the cold vocal signal...low bit rate, now THATS a turd! lol. Only good thing is that its only a
acoustic guitar and voice track...if you clean it up and polish these two turds enough, it leaves you with a lot of headroom and you can really S-W-I-N-G the meter. I cant even add a virtual drum track or bass line to it 'cos its in like 6 different time zones...lol
PPS - so my vocals were ok on that track? I was most worried about vocals, they seem to be the hardest to do right in mixing. Am I in the running for the contest? (probably not even close, but cant hurt to ask...lol)
Though it was said to use stock plugs, but some have used waves and such.
