Pre-Production from the upcoming Mirdyn album (including Real Drums)

[MartijnPaauwe]

A week or two me and my band Mirdyn rebuild the rehearsal space from a friend of us to somekind of a studio and did a pre-production for the upcoming album.
Here is one of the songs, and it's called "I wont just give this up"

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6976127

All recordings were done with a Korg D3200 harddisk recorder, we played with the whole band in a single room and everyone was miced up, our singer stood in a seperate vocal booth. Not everything did go flawless, two drumfills of mine got screwed up and our guitarist did a false chord (which you can laugh about too hehe)

It's a pretty raw recording, and i did a very quick mix in Nuendo, i'll try and go through the gear that's been used.

Drums : Pearl Export kit, close miking with a cheap-ass Superlux mic set and the OH was only one mic (you have to do something with only 8 XLR inputs and two guitarists that needed 'em as well) Kick was totally replaced with a sample, and snare was 25% Sample and 75% Mic. Only to add some smack to snare.

Guitars On your left you can hear a Line 6 SpiderValve (with Bogner Tubes) and on the right you are hearing a Peavey ValveKing, both miced up with a Sennheiser e609 (i think)

Bass DI Track from a Trace Elliot amplifier, later i modded with AmpegSVX and Voxengo Boogex.

Vocals Some cheap-ass large diagraphm mic

I hope you guys enjoy

 

[MartijnPaauwe]

Come on guys, no one even bothered to take a listen?

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

damn, not bad for everyone in the room at once. You can kinda tell in the guitars but it's not tooooo bad.

Try to get the bass guitar to stick out a bit more... did you compress it? Sometimes it's there and sometimes it seems like theres a pretty big gap in the low mids/lows

 

[Rob Logic]

It definitely sounds like it was recorded in one room but i think you guys get your point across better than most recordings i have heard done in this fashion. Good job!

 

[MartijnPaauwe]

Thanks guys The bassguitar is compressed to shit, i think it's our bassplayer that screwed up here and there I love a pretty raw bass sound but our bassplayer likes a clean sound so that's a little harder to give it a spot in the mix.

Mind you that this was only pre-production, when we are going for the real deal we will probably record everything seperately (and with a click track but that's for tracking drums with the guide-tracks) or maybe we'll go and play live I was really surprised too actually that it come out this tight, the sound quality of the pre-productions is even better than our last demo. So that's really hopeful in the future What do you guys think about the song?