oh yeah, they had a very loud drummer. now, our bucket puncher is a hell of a noise machine too, really really loud (in a good way), but FJ was even louder. When he walloped his cymbals, of which he had lots and lots, I couldn't tell the difference which cymbal was hit. One giant homogeneous WAASSSH...

We just came back after a series of gigs, and there was this band, FJ, who had the greatest live sound I heard so far. What got me thinking. Normally, we EQ, say, the kick drum quite a lot, ie boosting some low end, accentuating the click, etc. It sounds good, but nothing special. Now, FJ's drummer ...

. what about having him sing into a kick drum mic? LOL that could be a good idea.. by the way, here's the link where you can download a song (3.6 Mb mp3 file) and listen to the way his voice sounds. it's a "live" recording with overdubbed rhythm parts. last night i spent some time trying to find th...

n.c. wrote:reverb.
-n

okay, and what if it becomes all "washy"? can the problem be in, say, the way guitars sound??

BadHearing wrote:I'lld say find his nose and cut the top of a bit.

Peter

LOL or may be it's his empty head that resonates in such an ugly way

Our singer has a quite difficult voice to work with. It's very "open" and high-middy sounding, with rather nasal quality to it. The problem is, that even when the vocal track is well done (intonation wise, etc), it seems to stick out from the mix like a sore thumb, especially when played back on stu...

how does it sound when played back on a normal 2 channel set up? i've recently started hearing good things about it, but it mostly came from electronic musicians..

any opinions?

One decent pop song (Bandages) - Not Crap
A bunch of fillers - Crap
They've made it to MTV2, we haven't (so far, at least) - hmmm.. Not Crap.

Total: Not Crap

hey guys, i'm new here please don't mind me we recently got into a habit of delaying overhead tracks by approx -10 ms in restless efforts to gain some more "space" in mix.. and sometimes we like it, sometimes things get chorus-y and ugly. anybody else does that? if so, how do you do that? we do mixe...