I'm mixing an album at the moment which is recorded on a budget. The drums are MIDI, bass is okay, vocals are really well recorded, but the guitars are recorded through the "LINE IN" or "MIC" port on the back of a standard home PC.
As you can imagine, the DI signal isn't great. It lacks power and tends to have a lot of annoying frequencies especially around 2 - 4.5 k which makes EQ'ing incredibly difficult.
Has anybody had a similar experience? This isn't an incredibly high profile album, but it does feature members of Soilwork and Threat Signal on vocals so it will get some attention and I don't want people looking at me when the guitars sounds substandard. I've literally had to tone the drum down a bit so they don't rip the guitars apart in the mix.
As you can imagine, the DI signal isn't great. It lacks power and tends to have a lot of annoying frequencies especially around 2 - 4.5 k which makes EQ'ing incredibly difficult.
Has anybody had a similar experience? This isn't an incredibly high profile album, but it does feature members of Soilwork and Threat Signal on vocals so it will get some attention and I don't want people looking at me when the guitars sounds substandard. I've literally had to tone the drum down a bit so they don't rip the guitars apart in the mix.