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Originally Posted by bgrotto  With all due respect (I REALLY don't wanna come off as a dick, seriously), it's clear neither you nor anyone in your band have any practical recording knowledge; you're pretty much doomed to make a bad recording. ... I've yet to hear an amateur home recording of a metal band that didn't completely and utterly suck. |
I don't mind coming accross as a dick. I tell people the flat-honest truth, whether or not it's going to bring joy and/or sunshine to their day.
And I agree with you wholeheartedly. And my resoning is pretty simple. Most peple that I know who play metal, and who have been playing out on a consistant basis ... just no longer have the hearing necessary to make any sort of critical tracking or mixing decisions.
If you were to test the hearing of all of the metal drummers I know, I would be shocked if less than 100% weren't suffering from at least some form of hearing loss. And I would be equally shocked if at least 75% of the rest of the guys weren't as well -- at least in varying degrees. That's not to say that they don't have perfectly functional hearing for every day stuff like communicating with others and appreciating music or everyday dialog.
But to be blunt, most of them are just freakin' treble deaf, and I wouldn't trust a single one of them anywhere near a microphone, and aural exciters are completely off-limits. I would feel very nervous about the prospect of allowing them to mix an actual record that they were thinking of charging actual money for, because I believe that mixing is something that is best left for those who have close to their full spectrum of hearing intact, or at least in reasonable balance.
But that's just me.