punkish sounds

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Erockrazor

Erockrazor

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Hey, I recorded my friend today. 2 Guitar, Bass, and Drum set. Just wanted to see how you guys think I can improve the sound of everything.

Not really looking for guide on levels in the mix but more looking for sounds. Whats lacking etc.

Open for criticism and/or insults.


 
how were the drums miced first off..... guitars are lacking low end and the bass could come up a bit.
 
same, guitars need a little oomph, bass is way back there, drums sound too wide and i hear something weird going on with the phase maybe. maybe it's just how the drums are panned.

cool tune. will there be vocals?
 
Erockrazor said:
...looking for sounds. Whats lacking...
Needs a lead gtr. Pretty tight drumming. I like the way the drummer pushes the beat in the first few bars, then settles in.
 
Drums.
-2 overhead. (old shure sm 585s)
-1 snare mike.(audix i5 not in mix)
-1 kick mike.(mxl 990, just a trigger used drumagog)
-Into MOTU 8pre.
-Tracked Into Reaper.

-Simple Drum mix. I agree... Theyre panned hard L and R but Id like to close it up a bit more. I dont know how to break the stereo pair in nuendo :o .

-As for the guitar I can agree. Although that is sort of a sound he tries to get. He likes to turn his treble way up on his guitar so it sticks out and leaves -more room for the bass. But theres a lack of some meat on there.Thats where the bass should come in on his mix. We recorded that bass really roughly. He played it fine but it was just a scratch track. Didn't take any time tweaking (or tuning for that matter :o ). I'd like to have the bass take up a lot more of the low end. I feel like it would make up for some of the guitars which lack that bottom end meat.

-For the rest of the song. I gave him the tracks cause he just got a new thing to record with on his laptop(tascam us-122). He's gonna try and record his own vocals and wants his girlfriend to play bass for the track too. He's a good friend of mine so I don't mind recording a few tracks for him. I'd actually like to do it more often(maybe with some vocals next time).

Network Of Halo's
-He's a low-fi indie rock guy. Thats his music if you're interested in hearing the vocals and everything on a 4 track. Personally I think he does a 4 track pretty good justice.


Thanks for throwing in what you think. I appreciate hearing it.
 
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the drum thing i think is a delay between the left and right. i can hear it at every snare hit.

linky no worky
 
linky should worky nowy.
Network Of Halo's

I don't have a delay on the overheads/snare so maybe its slightly out of sync?

Maybe I can fiddle around with it and see if I can make it sound a little more natural. Could be phase but I don't think so.
 
Erockrazor said:
linky should worky nowy.
Network Of Halo's

I don't have a delay on the overheads/snare so maybe its slightly out of sync?

Maybe I can fiddle around with it and see if I can make it sound a little more natural. Could be phase but I don't think so.

listening to the second song on that page. pretty good stuff.

the delay thing could probably be fixed by lining up the tracks.
 
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