First time using mics and recording a band (Indie rock)

[Williamn]

Hello, thought I would try to get some feedback on my first of hopefull many sessions working with real stuff

Here is some facts about the session with some younger folks I recorded.

-This was my first time micing up anything (first time micing Vocals, drums, guitar everything.. infact I just bought my mics a week before the session heh)
-Sadly I dident have a good guitar amp for this style (only have a 5150) so ended up using a marshall solidstate the band had which was not sounding good (would have loved to use a good tube marshall.. oh and note to myself, buy a DI box !) tbh.
-We recorded 5 songs in one weekend, so as you might have guessed we dident spendt as much time on performance as we could/should have done.
-Bass player was reletiv new at playing it and pulled the "no playing with a pick" card.
-Have no proper studio, so had to get creative with getting a room to record in.


Well here it is : UPDATED MIX https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1709665/Previous/Færdig/Sang3færdig.mp3

Old mix below.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1709665/Previous/No plane.mp3

 

[christopher ridley]

Performance aside, it's not too bad for a first session man. Keep up the good work.

 

[dasbrootal]

not bad at ALL for your first venture with actual mics. i'd bring the guitars and vox down just a little bit. my only other real criticism lies in the performances but as you said, you did it all in a weekend. keep it up dude.

 

[Williamn]

Thanks alot for the kind words

I decided to dig in and do some good old manual editing.. so here is a hopefull tighter version and better mix

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1709665/Previous/No plane2.5.mp3

let me know what you think

 

[Williamn]

Ups mixed up some links before.. so anybody checked it out, make sure it was the 2.5 version .

 

[AllanD]

It sounds pretty good man. I think the guitar tone actually fits the genre.

The only thing that was bothering me was the low tom, it sounds a bit out of tune, and if it's a sample, it's just a little unfitting, not low enough. Are all the drums natural?

 

[Williamn]

Thanks alot for the feedback.
You are right about the toms, working on them atm og having a bit of hard time getting them to sit good in the mix :S

The toms and kick are replaced (80% and 100%) and the snare is 30%.. overheads are real.

Here is my new and (improved) mix !
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1709665/Previous/No plane3.2.mp3

Check it out if you want

 

[AllanD]

Sounds real vibey man, great job. Only problem is that I can't hear the tom now!

 

[Williamn]

Haha, might have went to far with the toms.. gonna raise them a bit later when I get home

 

[Morgan C]

Bass sounds like he's not even playing the same song, apart from that its really good. GJ. I dig the guitars + drums

 

[Williamn]

here is the "finished" mix the band got, if anyone is interrested

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1709665/Previous/Færdig/Sang3færdig.mp3

 

[chrisrivalry]

you did a really good job cleaning up the guitars, at first I thought they were almost unusable but you did a really good job man. I'm working on a project exactly like this, luckily my guy got a fender deluxe haha