If you want a project to play round with for a while, try this. It's one I recorded on my gear at home, using a DI'd faith guitar, a Sure (however you spell it) SM58, all going through a M-Audio Mobile Pree, which cost me £150, into my Macbook Pro 13, using a Euphonix MC2 mixing desk to mix with, and a pair of M-Audio something or others monitors. I got it all from DV247.com, not sure if they apply to America as well, but I'm in England, so hey! :P
Anyways, here's th link, and I'm afraid it falls under the catigory of "almost dog crap", and my voice is quite heavily autotuned, because I had a bitch of a sore throat the day I did the vocals. That said, we had fun recording it, and it's the first thing I did in PT, so it's quite close to my heart! LOL. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4219494/Early%20Morning%20Rain.zip Give it some time to upload, then it'll be there. On 06/10/2011, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > If possible, can you at least have a listen to my version of You Don't count > the Cost I did with my multi-mix? If you know how to get the vocals for a > definite! at least slightly more less clippy, that's my main goal right now > for starters. The weird thing is, it doesn't sound all that clipity until I > mix the track down to either an mp3 or wave. > > The clipping's there before, but not quite as bad. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Reeves" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 8:49 PM > Subject: Re: Bad quality: I just don't get it! > > > Hey man. It doesn't matter what you use. That record you heard was done on a > cheap $600 001 interface with a $200 mic. When I cut drums, I hired guys who > were great engineers. They weren't big names, just some guys from a small > town in Illinois. However, they knew how to dial the drums in. Then, I had > it mixed by our own Slau. He knows how to dial it in. Would he have > preferred that my stuff be tracked on better gear so he didn't have to > doctor it up as much or do tons of subtractive EQ? Probably. But he took > what he had and knew how to make it sound like a million bucks. What makes > it sound clear is how you use it. Tons of folks are doing industry standard > stuff in Sonar, logic, garageband, etc. It's all 0's and 1's. Obviously a > Pro Tools HD rig running at 192 K will sound better than a $200 interface at > 44.1 16, but that's minor. It's literally how you employ the tools you have. > I've spent over 13 years messing with this stuff to get the sounds I want. > When I first started out, everything I did sounded like dog crap. The trick, > get something that's easy for you to use, learn the hell out of it, and > record record record. You'll throw away about 90 percent of what you record. > THen 80, 70, etc. As you get better acquainted with your stuff, the more > you'll like what you record. After 13 years, I know how to dial it in. It's > that simple, and hard, all at the same time. Sorry to be such a downer, but > I feel bad that someone put it in your head that getting another piece of > software would make you sound better. I use Pro Tools because it's my rig of > choice. Go listen to stuff by Goldfingas, http://www.goldfingas.com, or have > Brian Smart send you something he did in Sonar. That stuff sounds amazing. > Hell. I've got stuff I tracked in Sonar while I had that rig. My pro tools > rig sounds better to me than my sonar rig did. Not because it's Pro TOols, > but because I know how to dial Pro Tools in. That's the ticket. In short, > learn your rig. You're jumping from board to board without really learning > it. Don't go for bells and whistles. If I were you, I'd get a Mackie Onyx if > you can grab the smaller one. That mixer is so easy to use and integrates > right into Pro TOols. No effects, no nothing. Just an analog board with a > fully digital back end. Then, open every pro tools plugin and see what it > does. Move every knob in the window till you figure out how it makes it > sound. Use presets if you have to. You'll find what you need after a while. > Again, sorry to piss on your parade, but that's the true honest answer. You > have to just do it to get through it. Trust me. I've hated stuff I've > recorded and wanted to sell everything off. It's just part of this journey. > Good luck. > > Kevin= > > -- Take care, Chris Norman. <!-- [email protected] -->
