Home Studio meets Pro Drums

mcollinge · 26th February 2006

We spent a day at a really great studio in Vancouver (The Hive) where we tracked intruments for 8 songs. Then headed back to my humble home studio in Victoria to track vocals and overdubs. We doubled most intrumental parts (except bass).

Our style is very informed by Neil Young's Trans record.

Now we're finally starting to finish off some mixes. Let me know what you think of them.

http://www.myspace.com/michaelcollinge

PS. The streams off of myspace really suck, so it is preferable to download them (they are 192 kbps mp3s), and then you can delete them right away.

mcollinge · 2nd March 2006

c'mon-- 93 views and no comments? what gives??

DungBeatle · 3rd March 2006

I can't get myspace to download and I can't stream.... will check back later.

mcollinge · 3rd March 2006

No, most of these are essentially final mixes (got your pm djui5

). We are weighing having a pro mastering job done, tho.

I've had a response that vocals and bass are too low, so they are going to be boosted.

Rush909 · 6th March 2006

all in all sound pretty good.... nice seperation of instruments... vocals pretty low and tracks would need to be mastered to bring the whole track to the forefront... but pretty nice sounds...

how you mix these? ITB?, console?

r.

mcollinge · 8th March 2006

All mixed in the box. We're doing some remixing right now that'll be up soon.

Baz · 10th March 2006

Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm going to book The Hive sometime next month to track some bed tracks. Who was your engineer, Colin?

The tracks sound good - I liked Time On My Mind, especially, but I wish these were hi-res mp3's instead of myspace to really hear em. Myspace sure serves a purpose but it totally ****s with your high end and does some whack arbitrary low end hyping I've found.

mcollinge · 12th March 2006

Yeah, Colin did the beds. He's great.

You can download the full quality mp3s.

Mystr Tiger · 12th March 2006

I listened to 'Time on My Mind'. Heavy sound - I like it. I like the ambience on the drums - very real and present. I think I would bring up the vocals a tad. Also, I kinda expected to hear some kind of lead guitar, or maybe sax, especially near the end. Otherwise, very nice and beefy.

26th February 2006	#1
mcollinge Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 133 Thread Starter	Home Studio meets Pro Drums We spent a day at a really great studio in Vancouver (The Hive) where we tracked intruments for 8 songs. Then headed back to my humble home studio in Victoria to track vocals and overdubs. We doubled most intrumental parts (except bass). Our style is very informed by Neil Young's Trans record. Now we're finally starting to finish off some mixes. Let me know what you think of them. http://www.myspace.com/michaelcollinge PS. The streams off of myspace really suck, so it is preferable to download them (they are 192 kbps mp3s), and then you can delete them right away.

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mcollinge Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 133 Thread Starter	All mixed in the box. We're doing some remixing right now that'll be up soon.

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Baz Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver BC, Canada / San Diego CA ,USA Posts: 1,021	Cool. I'm pretty sure I'm going to book The Hive sometime next month to track some bed tracks. Who was your engineer, Colin? The tracks sound good - I liked Time On My Mind, especially, but I wish these were hi-res mp3's instead of myspace to really hear em. Myspace sure serves a purpose but it totally ****s with your high end and does some whack arbitrary low end hyping I've found.

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mcollinge Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 133 Thread Starter	Yeah, Colin did the beds. He's great. You can download the full quality mp3s.

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Mystr Tiger Gear maniac Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 289	I listened to 'Time on My Mind'. Heavy sound - I like it. I like the ambience on the drums - very real and present. I think I would bring up the vocals a tad. Also, I kinda expected to hear some kind of lead guitar, or maybe sax, especially near the end. Otherwise, very nice and beefy.