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Paolo_M wrote: »

Had a crack off Baker Street using all sims.
Bass and guitar is ReValver III and drums are EZDrummer.

http://www.netmusicians.org/files/70-Baker%20Street.mp3



I'm relatively happy with the mix but it's not quite "there" I think.
I'm not sure what's not right, though.
The bass doesn't seem right somehow.
I'd like the low end to punch more somehow, I think, though it might be that I need to alter things higher instead.
Any tips from you more experienced guys would be very welcome.

I'm not a producer at all really but I liked the sound of this man. How did you record the rythm and lead guitars? Well done

hey thanks ludwit, any advice for the recording?

Hi folks, here's a new track from Rockshamrover with ZV Yoda on drums.

Cheers Mark, great job.




http://soundcloud.com/rockshamrover/gone-away-rockshamrover-with-yoda-on-drums

Out very soon on Austrian label, Ashen Productions.
Graveyard Dirt "For Grace Or Damnation"
Heavy doom stuff.
Great band to work with and very talented musicians.
Check out the sample track.
http://www.ashenproductions.net/ap026.html

Hi folks, Have a listen to this if you get a chance.

Cheers

http://soundcloud.com/rockshamrover/photograph-by-the-riot-tapes-rockshamrover-remix

krd wrote: »

Pssst, Rock, could you post the stems somewhere I can download them. I'm not ready to do a remix - but i'd like a crack at it some time in the future.

Post them - Chris doesn't come round here any more - he's too busy having lunch with yer wan from the Corrs and playing golf with Bono.

I'd love to Joe but Chris wouldn't be giving me any more to mix

I'm sure he'd let you have a go though, he's a nice guy, well that's what Bono says:D

Still trying to figure out this mixing lark.

Would you have a listen and give me any pointers?

http://www.netmusicians.org/files/62-Get%20My%20Love%20-%20Rough%20up%20for%20sound.mp3
or
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Black%20River%20Affair/4%20Track%20Rough%20Demos/Get%20My%20Love%20-%20Rough%20up%20for%20sound.mp3?w=b6f4ad09

Netmusician seems to act funny at times.

I know the drums (programmed in EZDrummer) could be done better MIDI pattern wise. The whole thing could be cleaned up a bit too, but I'm wondering how it is balance, EQ, punch and mix wise so far. This track is only for mixing practise and I'd welcome any pointers especially criticisms or suggestions of a better way to do things.

krd wrote: »

Though I noticed something that I've noticed on a lot of recordings. It doesn't really sound groovy and relaxed until well into the track; around 1.45.

If everyone needs to relax - and record live - add a minute or two in front of the track - so once it's got to the pieces that are the actually song pieces everyone is relaxed and. (you then chop out that piece when you're editing it)

The other thing - be dynamic - if you're going to have repetitive guitar parts - have them change in volume or jump speaker to speaker.

Like the guitar bit - 15. t0 20. You have it going chugga chugg chugg, all at the same volume. Why not use a volume ride (that's where you slowly raise the volume - even have it poping speaker to speaker(Stereo trick) - so it comes up and drops on the drop) And you can apply that to the rest of the stuff.

Layer the vocals to bring them out more.

You need to relax and let it all hang out - the last minute is the best for everyone.

krd wrote: »

The other thing Goatboy.

Could you give a narrative to how you recorded that. What equipment you used - how you did it etc.

It's a good home recording - a lot of people (*cough* nearly everybody) here records at home. We'd be interested in hearing the story. Just whatever problems you had and how you overcame them etc.

Thanks for the feedback.
I agree it could be a bit more dynamic. And it probably will be in the end. At the moment there's no automation at all, just a balance on the faders and everything is very compressed. But I will fine tune it. As for volume rides and and ping-ponging things around the place, I wouldn't be up for that at all. I think that stuff always sounds naff, but again, thanks for the suggestions, all feedback is good.
As for recording, everything was laid down one thing at a time except for guitar1 (left) and the bass, which went down together.
The drums were recorded in the drummers front room. 57 on the snare, d112 on the kick, e604's on the toms, but they were mostly replaced with Trigger in the mix.
AKG C 391's for overheads and Rode NT-5's out in the hall pointing into the room.
Kick, snare and overheads went into a soundcraft 200B, and came out on the group outs into a digi002 and onto a Macbook pro. Toms and rooms went into the pres on the 002.
Bass and guitar1 went straight into the back of my Mbox mini then used digidesign eleven on the guitar in the mix.
Vocals were done in the singers bedroom. I used an SM58 into a focusrite Green preamp/channel strip and into the Mbox mini.
Guitar2 and guitar3 was done in my sitting room and hallway with my Blackstar HT-5. Again into the Focusrite and on to the Mbox.
The mix was another story altogether.
Hope that helps!

krd wrote: »

One thing I will say - I think you're doing great stuff there for your setup - actually several bits I will say.

A track - in it's totality does not have to be recorded in one go.

Get the singer in his bedroom - warm him up (a few drinks and a *cough*) get him to improvise - 20 min - 30 min - the longer he goes and the crazier the lyrics the better - then you cut it down.

Get him to do Michael Jackson grunts and groans - some will work, some won't.

Make him feel confident enough to push it - his voice will get stronger - encourage him to do vocal licks. And get him confident enough to know something isn't good enough.

Do the same with everyone else.

Compose the tracks - there's no law against using automation - and people may rethink what they're doing once they hear the automation.

What you may have in the end is something great the band can do in one take.

I don't think we recorded anything in one go. There was a fair bit of editing and patching stuff together. The drums were orininally 4bpm faster but they were slowed down with Waves Soundshifter, and edited a bit.
All the songs are totally written and set in stone before we ever think of recording them. We've been doing a decent version of this track live for some time now.
On the records we were always using borrowed gear on a very tight schedule so we never had time to set up and start doing any improvising etc. We did 14 songs, over a total of 6 half days. 2 half days for drums, two for guitars and bass and two for vocals. It was all very quick but we had all our parts off fairly well because we had been playing them live.
I'd love to have had more time but we knew that was never going to happen from the start, so it was all about getting in, getting things down and getting out of there.