thoughts on my recording

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Hey guys,

It's my first post, I made an account so I can get feedback on my recordings and hopefully get better at production/mixing/mastering.

It's a cover of Bright lit blue sky by the rising storm. I attached the mp3. I used logic 8 and the built in mic on my laptop. I recorded all the tracks individually. I recorded the drums all together on one mic. Most of it is one take.

I used a tape emulator on the whole mix with a flutter and pitch lfo to oscillate it slightly in and out of tune. on the vocals i tried multitracking or masking or whatever it's called (singing the same thing and splitting them left and right) but I didn't like it so I did something I've never heard of before. I set both vocals to the middle, put a a heavy tremolo on both, and offset one so when one is up the other is down. It's an interesting effect as it sounds like one voice. The parts where I fuck up and sing different things sound kind of cool. Also I put a delay on the vocals. I messed up the timing a couple times (before the bridge towards the end) so ignore that.

What do you think of the mix? I'm not using it for anything, just trying to get better.

Thanks.
 

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and the built in mic on my laptop.
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This is the reason it sounds like it's playing in a tin can 500ft away. Can't really comment on the mix as the sound is painful.
 
Mr Clean said:
This is the reason it sounds like it's playing in a tin can 500ft away. Can't really comment on the mix as the sound is painful.
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Thanks for the feedback. How expensive of a mic do I need to get a better sounding recording? What specifically would it improve? The reason I ask is because I kind of like the lofi/garage sound, I'm not trying to make something clean or professional. Do you think a better mic would help me get the sound I'm after?
 
dgaf said:
Thanks for the feedback. How expensive of a mic do I need to get a better sounding recording? What specifically would it improve? The reason I ask is because I kind of like the lofi/garage sound, I'm not trying to make something clean or professional. Do you think a better mic would help me get the sound I'm after?
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The short answer is yes. This sounds worse than a broken radio and it is way beyond lo-fi. The music is cool though so you should definately get some recording gear.
 
Haha, it definitely sounds indie. I can tell you that much.

Is it weird that I think this sounds sort of cool? I can't tell what any of the words are, but still. It actually sounds interesting enough to make me want to keep listening.

You still need to get better equipment, but for what you had to work with, I think you came up with something really creative.
 
Spritey said:
Is it weird that I think this sounds sort of cool? I can't tell what any of the words are, but still. It actually sounds interesting enough to make me want to keep listening.
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:D
i like it too, somehow. but it's way too distorted and warbled. other than that it kinda sounds like a lost obscure 60s garage psychedelic recording. like 13th floor elevators with broken equiptment.
it sounds as it came from a different reality where giant frogs are running record labels.
 
if you really want an old garage rock sound and you got a band playing live in a room...
an cheap old reel2reel recorder, some 2nd hand mixing deck and 1-3 microphones would be cool
some of the old sonics, kingsmen etc recordings where just like that. often just 1 mic for the whole band, no multitrack, straight to mono tape
but since you play everything yourself.. a cheap soundcard/interface with decent mic preamp and some dynamic mics(think shure sm57, old electro voice mics) will do fine (or you could get an old cassette portastudio for cheap :D actually i think a portastudio ist very cool for that kinda stuff)
 
I kind of liked it for a little while. It had some good energy and was catchy.

But after about a minute the harshness and nasty distortion was too much and I had to turn it off.

Lot's of work to do. But yeah I think job #1 is to get a mic other than your computer mic. Just a 57 or AT2020 would be a huge step up.
 
thanks guys. all very helpful feedback. i'm getting a 4 track cassette machine and a microphone soon, my computers too busted up to hook a mic up to it. really excited

anybody else have input?
 
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