Originally Posted by 1blankmind (Post 1752665)

Off three seconds of listening, you have everything to loud. It's usually better to have it a bit quiet. You turn it all up as loud as you want in post. Also sounds like there is one mic in a room recording multiple instruments. That's a big no, no in recording. Record all instruments one at a time.

Also, turn the distortion down on the guitar. You can always add more in post. I generally record with no effects and add them in post.

Hear are some youtube channels about music production

Fluff: Ryan Bruce

Spectre This guy is a bit more abrasive personality wise, but he's easily the smartest of them all.

CSGuitars This guy is more about beginner information, but still is really smart.

Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff (Post 1752670)

Actually, that might of been a bad example since that was a very strictly lo-fi recording. Maybe compare that to this?

Originally Posted by 1blankmind (Post 1752671)

Poor eq. The person who mixed it didn't cut out the unneeded frequencies.

Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff (Post 1752672)

For reference though, we used a two mics on the first track; one that picked up vocals and one that picked up the rest in the garage. There's a lot of bleed but that was pretty intentional. Recording each instrument separately would have been straight hell, because the first demo I tried to make with my second group tried that and we spent nearly a month and a half working on three tracks and none of them were even finished in the end. Stuff failed to line up correctly, there were all sorts of issues, etc.

Originally Posted by 1blankmind (Post 1752674)

Unless I was there with you, I couldn't tell you where the **** up was. Your mic, could of been ****, Tte program you were using was compressing the audio, there was too much white noise, any number of things. Hard to say.

Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff (Post 1752678)

I'll record a track well and give it as an example cause I realize that lo-fi isn't showing my capabilities very well.

Originally Posted by 1blankmind (Post 1752682)

Ok. When I do a recording, this is what I always concern myself with the most,

Compresion. Too much and its muddled. Not enough and the track is all over the place volume wise. Beware of distortion, it is a natural form of compression.

Also, careful with EQ. It's important but it can also **** your track up faster then Fred Durst vocals.