Hi all!
good thread!
finished my first album recently, in similar conditions, but we were two for recordings. I did by myself, the composition (some 15 years old), arrangements, piano, drums, percussions, sax, mix and mastering.
My friend is a guitar player and as he was working full time, it took us about 2 years too complete the guitar and piano recordings, simultaneously in a live condition. We played over prerecorded midi arrangements.
After that, we watched each other, as we live in Beijing, it is not easy to find musicians, we decided to learn bass and drums!
He would take the bass, as he is used with strings and I the drums.
We also recorded them simultaneously.
I got myself a v-drums wich was usefull to correct the rythm not in place.
Took us an other year and a half to finish all the recordings.
some of gear used: (the great) avalon U5 as DI for guitar and bass, used TLA indigo voice processor for other recordings using a pre. Piano is NI, drums from td-20.
For the
mix, I read a lot on this website (compressor, eq, mixing bass, drums, sax, master reverb, mix bus...)and bought a liquidmix and altiverb to complete my studio.
for the
mastering I used Ozone 3, did only a little compression and eq.
This stage is quite critical and I think sometime that I will redo the mastering after I got really a lot of time, maybe few years...
So for those interested you can ear some of the final tracks (with ugly myspace compression) and even see a video demonstrating the rerecordings.Comments are welcome.
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