Too much tape saturation?

shadubular · 27th March 2007

This is my first post on this site. Any comments/questions are welcome. Tear it apart. It is a live multitrack mix recorded through a soundcraft board into a digi 002. Tracks were then recorded to 1/2" 4 track and recorded back in the 002 for mixing. No vox on this mix...they are still being worked on.

shadubular · 28th March 2007

hello? anyone care to lend and ear or 2? make this new kid on the block feel welcome.

treymonfauntre · 28th March 2007

shame all you had to work with was DI acoustics
i think it sounds pretty good otherwise

virtualsounds · 28th March 2007

Look we cant say much, this is a live recording.. guitars need clearance of background noise and drums need compressing pretty bad. Try some extra "mix touches" over each track you have and it will be nice. If you have only the final mix... keep on working..

shadubular · 30th March 2007

cool, i've yet to get the drums sounding like i want them to. one problem is the hihat is too loud in the overheads, so in order to get the crashes at a good level, the hihat begins to stick out too much. any suggestions to balance this out? automation? compression?

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treymonfauntre Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 567	shame all you had to work with was DI acoustics i think it sounds pretty good otherwise __________________

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virtualsounds Gear Head Joined: Mar 2007 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 40	Look we cant say much, this is a live recording.. guitars need clearance of background noise and drums need compressing pretty bad. Try some extra "mix touches" over each track you have and it will be nice. If you have only the final mix... keep on working.. __________________ virtual sounds : music production online

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shadubular Gear interested Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Thread Starter	hello? anyone care to lend and ear or 2? make this new kid on the block feel welcome.

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shadubular Gear interested Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Thread Starter	cool, i've yet to get the drums sounding like i want them to. one problem is the hihat is too loud in the overheads, so in order to get the crashes at a good level, the hihat begins to stick out too much. any suggestions to balance this out? automation? compression?