New Studio Set up! and a clip from the band, comments wanted

[tennis_nick]

So we finally got this room of ours set up as a low tech studio, and I'm LOVING IT!

Today at around 6, we brought all of our gear into the house, set everything up, slapped 3 mics around the drums, 1 on the guitar, and ran the bass direct (though you can hear the bleed) and on this imperfect set up, we created a sound I'm pretty happy with!

We even recorded a demo for all of you!

Basic Track - Drums / Bass / Guitar recorded on 1 take, all live

Vocals Overdubbed in 1 take.

If we can make this kind of noise with little effort put into to the process, I thing we'll do well once we have everything tweaked properly! Enjoy the clip, and please, post you comments!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=8265450

Soundclick compresses the sound quite a bit, but it's listenable!

Thanks for Checking it out!

[walker]

Nice job, Nick. Love the raw feel of the live recording. Nice grit to the singing. And thanks for making sure to include the "blisters: line!

What guitars were used on this recording?

[tennis_nick]

The guitar was actually a Gibson SG with a P-90 in the bridge position...


And yeah, I was pointing at the drummer after the take egging him on to scream it! hahah

[ram]

Nick - good reason to be happy with the tune... it sounds good! I think the vocals get better as the tune rolls along.

[cassius987]

Nice job, Nick. Love the raw feel of the live recording. Nice grit to the singing.

+1

If you want any criticism from me I feel like the bass was a bit too boomy in the mix, even for a live take... maybe if you tame it just a bit with some compression (4:1?) it will tighten up and make the track that much more solid. Because there is bleed-over you will still retain some of the boom, which may be a good thing post-compression--may even give the tone a certain depth if there's any delay in the bleed.

[tennis_nick]

Nice job, Nick. Love the raw feel of the live recording. Nice grit to the singing.

+1

If you want any criticism from me I feel like the bass was a bit too boomy in the mix, even for a live take... maybe if you tame it just a bit with some compression (4:1?) it will tighten up and make the track that much more solid. Because there is bleed-over you will still retain some of the boom, which may be a good thing post-compression--may even give the tone a certain depth if there's any delay in the bleed.

It's funny that you mention that, because the other day, I realized that I only used compression on the vocals, everything else was au-natural.

When I went back to see if I could adjust it, I had already deleted the project, so I guess I'll do without! haha