Logic 9.1.6 with Logic plugs, Reverb was Space Designer set on short plate with a hi shelf filter at 5k . Instruments were Logic based soft instruments and EXS24 Sampler.
Outboard For the Vocals was Warm Audio Mic Pre with sE Electronics 4400A Mic
Apogee Quartet AD/DA
This is the more Classical version I will have a Remix up later on today. Enjoy
Hey Y'all: Longtime reader, first time poster. Here are two tracks I've done in the last year or two. Everything was done in Logic using cheap(ish) interfaces and three mics total. I'm happy to get any comments. Cheers.
More recently, I've been working on these. I think they still qualify - used a Mackie 1640i and about $1000 in cheapish microphones (SM58, SM57, Audix drum mic kit, AKG Perception 220, vintage Shure mic - close to a 525 - that I got at a flea market for $5).
Nice Jason. It's great to hear a good ol tape recording that sounds good.
BTW the way I recorded the acoustic guitars - a Carvin Cobalt 980TW and a Breedlove Atlas - with a combination of low end mics - a modded MXL990, AT2035, and ATM33R, and some peizo mixed in on one or two of them. All through an Art Pro VLA II >> Art Pro MPA II (slight limiting) >> Avid Mbox 3 Pro >> Pro tools 10.
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Soloed Drum Fill: "Dubba Dubba Dubba Dubba CLUNK!"
Drummer: "There's no way I could have hit the mic!"
421: sigh
Here's another one I am working on. We recorded the basic tracks for this one on a TDM system at a local studio where some local famous folks record (Rick Derringer, Robin Zander). Then I took it home to my home studio did the vocals, slide guitar and some post editing and mix down. Still needs some little tweaks but it sounds good. These are some of the first things I have mixed on the Adam A7s and I am really liking them and getting to know them.
Hey there, recently finished the rough mix for my bands new song. Wrote it and played all the instruments myself however. Still need to track some gang vocals and tweak parts of the mix but I thought I'd share it anyway to see what the slutz think. If there's any interest I'll share the recording details. Cheers!
Did this last night. I should have spent more time on the mix but it is what it is! I made the Instrumental and my friend Raw Blake's on the track...I'm into all genres of music and have been doing allot of acoustic recording lately. It was nice to go back to where I started with a hip hop based track.
Here's a new tune from "The Confetti Kids." We recorded it a few months ago and it was originally a stripped down piano based "rock" tune. However, we went a little overboard and produced the living hell out of it - and probably went too far
This is about the 5th song I've ever mixed so it's still pretty rough and ametuer-ish, but you can hear what we were shooting for.
Drums: e602 on kick, 57s on snare and toms, 421 on floor, NT3s as overheads, MD21 as room mic.
Bass: e602 on the 15", 58 on the 10".
Guitars: Beyer m112 (distorted), 421 (clean), 57 (acoustic).
Synths (when not DI'd): 421, sometimes NT3s as room mics.
Piano: NT3 stereo setup.
Vocals: MD21
Recorded and mixed with a Steinberg MR816 and Cubase 5.
External processing: Yamaha SPX990.
This is a song, swedish lyrics with a bit of gipsy rythms (well that was the idea). The song should really "pop" in the chorus but it doesnt, and thats a problem i always stumble upon. Any ideas on this and i would appreciate it a lot!
Gear:
Duet 2
Logic
Native Instrument
Slate digital plugins
Tlm 103 (Maybe not low end but can sound like shit sometimes cause o the room i would think)
Here's a new one I'm working on. Almost done but needs a couple solos. Lemme know what ya'll think! Thanks!
I love this. The distortion on the guitars just seems so refined and controlled. Very nice. Possibly the only problem is that I really had to look to find the bass, though I am not sure where else the bass could go... Now I am just rambling.
Edit: The problem was on my end... for some reason my left output was center it is a lot easier to find now. Listening through again
Here's a new tune from "The Confetti Kids." We recorded it a few months ago and it was originally a stripped down piano based "rock" tune. However, we went a little overboard and produced the living hell out of it - and probably went too far
This is about the 5th song I've ever mixed so it's still pretty rough and ametuer-ish, but you can hear what we were shooting for.
Song like this you could bring the vox more forward. Nice tune, again, I love Confetti Kids.
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I won't use pitch correcting software. I use "coaching" maybe you've heard of it. It keeps working even when you don't have it on.
This is a song, swedish lyrics with a bit of gipsy rythms (well that was the idea). The song should really "pop" in the chorus but it doesnt, and thats a problem i always stumble upon. Any ideas on this and i would appreciate it a lot!
Gear:
Duet 2
Logic
Native Instrument
Slate digital plugins
Tlm 103 (Maybe not low end but can sound like shit sometimes cause o the room i would think)
Yes, dial back the intensity on the verses, "big note" on the choruses, or, simplify the chorus melody line without losing it, if you know what I mean.
It’s definitely there to pop though so good on you.
Yes, I have a suggestion, and no offense intended:
learn how to use the forum tags.
Those little things you put around soundcloud posts that make them instantly clickable without even leaving the page or opening another
window.
That way you get this:
instead of what you had.
See? All you have to do is press play instead of being irritated enough not to listen to any more soundcloud links that don’t use the tags.
For all you guys who aren’t using the links and also aren’t getting any replies, that’s why, because opening another tab, window, link is a PITA when the tags are right up on the right, looking like a little orange cloud.
You select your song in soundcloud,
and it opens a window with just that song on it,
you select the url,
you copy it,
you go back to the gearslutz page for your post,
hit the soundcloud tags button,
paste your url in the middle of the two tags,
and post it and voila.
And it’s a nice tune well done! I wonder how many other songs I’m definitely not going to listen to are this good?
I wouldn’t change your signal path, that 58 sounds great going through that 610. You could try a 1073 or a 1081 with the same mic, might thicken your mids some but possibly too much.
Sounds fine. Fits wel. Nice tune too.
I'm not sure videos qualify for this thread? I posted my mix of the studio version a couple weeks back... here's a live performance of the same song, recorded truely Low-End through two unsynced MacBooks with a M-Audio FW1814 and a Profire 610.
12 channels total, synths submixed via an old Roland 19"-submixer,
4 mics on drums (2x Rode NT1-A for OHs, e606 on snare, beyerdynamic opus 99 on kick),
guitars through line6 pod hd500,
bass just straight into an unbalanced input on the interface, then reamped with pod hd500,
vocals just your plain old SM58/SD565 straight into interface pres...
...was a pain in the arse lining up the audio afterwards (Drum-Tracks from one mac were 4-5s shorter than on the other... this project is what made me buy a Metric Halo interface afterwards and read up on clocking...)
Yes, I have a suggestion, and no offense intended:
learn how to use the forum tags.
Those little things you put around soundcloud posts that make them instantly clickable without even leaving the page or opening another
window.
I found that using the tags gave a poorer quality sound, i.e. the tags are forcing some further processing.
I'll experiment so expect some post edits....
Anyway, these songs are yet to be mixed. All were recorded at home with gear < $1000 except drums which I recorded to 2" tape in a studio.
Update: Yep, definitely a degraded sound when using tags. You can hear this for yourself by playing a tagged song then clicking the sound cloud logo at the end and play the same track in the same browser directly from the sound cloud site. Sounds much better.
Okay, here's one that you don't want to play when children are present. I mixed and mastered this one for The Devil's Heir recently. Here's the gear used:
Vocals - Shure Beta87
Guitars - Epiphone Les Paul - Marshall Valvestate - Shure SM57
Bass Guitar - Dean Mach VII - Peavey TNT 30 - Shure Beta52a on one speaker and Shure SM57 on another
Drums - EZDrummer Metalheads EZX
Recorded through a Behringer 2-channel mixer to my computer.
Cool Edit Pro used for recording and mixing.
FL Studio used for drum sequencing and mastering.
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