http://www.emotears.com/~wankerness/audio/fok9.mp3
Honestly I just have no idea where to begin with much of anything
I finally have managed to amass a considerable amount of recording software/hardware and tried to put it all together. I have a podxt with all the expansion packs (well, not the bass one...), and I used a direct box and a bunch of compression plugins and some slight software overdrive on the bass, and the drums are dfh1 through battery. I recorded/mixed it in Sonar.
Ignore the numerous playing mistakes, I haven't played guitar/bass with any dedication in a couple years and am very sloppy (all attempts at vibrato failed miserably so I just recorded it without, I know it sounds nasty on the long notes, haha). AND of course the song wasn't even intended to be a song initially, it was just an attempt to get HEAVY GUITAR SOUND but then I sort of liked how it sounded and tacked on an intro and some more guitar (but not an ending). AND i just noticed that after the lead guitar at the beginning I forgot to cut off the volume at the end of the phrase so there's some pickup/string noise at about 43 seconds, which will definitely be fixed in the next version.
I know it sounds quite fizzy, and I know that a lot of it gets muddied together severely...but as I said, this is my first try and I'm looking for any guidance/pointers you can offer. I basically just flailed around with various waves plugins (like the C4 and a bunch of EQs) tweaking them around to make it sound slightly better but not really knowing what to aim for. About the only guided things I did with the EQ were attempt to put low pass/high pass on the rhythm guitars/bass so they overlapped less, and then I put a notch in the bass at about 60 hz to let the bass drum thump a tiny bit more. Then I stuck an ultramaximizer and a compressor on the main mix to get it slightly more alive sounding, I guess.
Anyway sorry for the really long post I just wanted to let you know what I've tried to do so you can better criticize me
Honestly I just have no idea where to begin with much of anything
I finally have managed to amass a considerable amount of recording software/hardware and tried to put it all together. I have a podxt with all the expansion packs (well, not the bass one...), and I used a direct box and a bunch of compression plugins and some slight software overdrive on the bass, and the drums are dfh1 through battery. I recorded/mixed it in Sonar. Ignore the numerous playing mistakes, I haven't played guitar/bass with any dedication in a couple years and am very sloppy (all attempts at vibrato failed miserably so I just recorded it without, I know it sounds nasty on the long notes, haha). AND of course the song wasn't even intended to be a song initially, it was just an attempt to get HEAVY GUITAR SOUND but then I sort of liked how it sounded and tacked on an intro and some more guitar (but not an ending). AND i just noticed that after the lead guitar at the beginning I forgot to cut off the volume at the end of the phrase so there's some pickup/string noise at about 43 seconds, which will definitely be fixed in the next version.
I know it sounds quite fizzy, and I know that a lot of it gets muddied together severely...but as I said, this is my first try and I'm looking for any guidance/pointers you can offer. I basically just flailed around with various waves plugins (like the C4 and a bunch of EQs) tweaking them around to make it sound slightly better but not really knowing what to aim for. About the only guided things I did with the EQ were attempt to put low pass/high pass on the rhythm guitars/bass so they overlapped less, and then I put a notch in the bass at about 60 hz to let the bass drum thump a tiny bit more. Then I stuck an ultramaximizer and a compressor on the main mix to get it slightly more alive sounding, I guess.
Anyway sorry for the really long post I just wanted to let you know what I've tried to do so you can better criticize me
