Here's the story. My buddy decides our band can record its own stuff with the equipment available nowadays. He goes out and buys:
an Alesis 24-track hard drive recorder
Cubase SL 2.0
a 4-DSP card with decent plugin software for his PC
So we lay down some tracks, and it's pretty exciting, but when he mixes the song (levels, EQ, compression, panning), it still sounds homemade. We have talked and tweaked and experimented for over a week now, and though it sounds pretty good in its own way, we still can't get it to sound like a professional CD.
Question is: Can we ever get there with this equipment/software? I know I'm a little short on specifics here, but maybe someone has a thought. I don't have a web site to post the mix in MP3 format, but I could clip a little of it and email it if anyone was interested in hearing it.
Sorry for any rules broken/dumb questions/etiquette breaches.
an Alesis 24-track hard drive recorder
Cubase SL 2.0
a 4-DSP card with decent plugin software for his PC
So we lay down some tracks, and it's pretty exciting, but when he mixes the song (levels, EQ, compression, panning), it still sounds homemade. We have talked and tweaked and experimented for over a week now, and though it sounds pretty good in its own way, we still can't get it to sound like a professional CD.
Question is: Can we ever get there with this equipment/software? I know I'm a little short on specifics here, but maybe someone has a thought. I don't have a web site to post the mix in MP3 format, but I could clip a little of it and email it if anyone was interested in hearing it.
Sorry for any rules broken/dumb questions/etiquette breaches.