My bands song using a Single Rectifier Rect-O-Verb combo.

[PreventThis]

Here is the song I have been working on for my band. I just recieved my SM57 in the mail the other day and I was doing some recordings for my vocalist to write lyrics to. I was a bit sloppy in one part of the recording. The recording is triple tracked with a guitar panned 50 percent left, 50 percent right, and center. Im pretty happy with my tone in here but I thought I would post this to see what others thought of it. My drummer added some drums to it to see what it sounds like. They arent the final drum tracks but we were just testing. We are planning to produce our bands album EP so we were seeing what kind of quality we were working with. The song probably will get a little repetitive since there arent vocals but oh well. Here is a link to my soundclick. The song is called Falling From Cloud 9. Let me know what you guys think.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=622812.

Also make sure you stream in hi-fi so you can get the best quality.

EDIT: For updated tone listen to Test Tone on my soundclick. Thanks.

 

[Nick_cor]

Hey, this sounds good, but when I imagine the bass trakcs being layed i hear the guitar fading away in the mix. How did you record this? what other gear besides the sm57, like mic preamp or w/e, thanks

 

[PreventThis]

Hey, this sounds good, but when I imagine the bass trakcs being layed i hear the guitar fading away in the mix. How did you record this? what other gear besides the sm57, like mic preamp or w/e, thanks

Thanks for the comment. Yeah I think were going to try to put some bass in there later on. I just used my SM57 with my Behringer UB2222-FX mixer with a flat eq going out the stereo RCA's into my computers Line in port. The cables were all Monster as well. Im pretty sure thats it.

 

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Anyone else have any comments. Thanks.

 

[Mrmot]

I like the ideas, really cool riffs! The drums are "ok", there are quite a lot of mistakes, or at least it seems to me as mistakes :lol:
The guitar tone is pretty good, but lacks lows and a bit too harsh, but that's nothing that can't be solved with a little bit of tweaking the eq and mic position :wink:

 

[Aramism]

is this modern or vintage mode?

 

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Its on modern. Yeah there are off time spots on the drums. Thanks for the comments.

 

[mrd]

Checked out that song. I can tell that the tone coming from the amp is not being translated that well through the mic. Where are you placing your mic? You can usually get the best results placing the mic very close to the cone (maybe a bit further back if you are recording very loudly) but off to one side a bit so that the mic is pointing to the edge of the cone. If you put it dead on you are gonna get too much of a proximity effect which basically equates to booming bass that will ruin your mix. This is because, when your mic is that close to the speaker and right in the middle, the air coming off the speaker thrashes the mic and all you hear is thud thud thud.

One trick to try is this: Get someone to play a repeating riff or chord progression or something whilst listening to the mix through headphones. Then, get someone else to slowly move the mic around while they play (this guy might wanna wear earplugs for this, since he's gonna be in close proximity to the speakers). When the mix in the phones sounds good, kick or yell or something to let the guy know that the mics are in a good spot. You will eventually find that different cabs have different sweet spots where the frequencies are fairly balanced. What you want to avoid is having it too close (too much bass) or too far (too much mid and high-end). Also, invest in one to three more mics if you are serious about recording. I record with 2 (probably moving to 3 soon once I get another mic-stand) and most professional musicians have probably 4-5. You want to have 2 right up there getting the blast of the speakers, then 2 or 3 further back for some "room" in the tone. Usually you mix these mics fairly low because they sound a bit weird, but having them loud enough just for presence will make your tone more desirable.

Also, try panning guitars hard left, hard right and dead centre, instead of 50/50. This will give you the "wall of sound" effect and it's very dramatic, especially if you play all three tracks identical to each other.

As for the actual song, it's not entirely to my liking, but it's definitely got promise. Tell your vocalist to record something and put it back up here for us.

 

[PreventThis]

Checked out that song. I can tell that the tone coming from the amp is not being translated that well through the mic. Where are you placing your mic? You can usually get the best results placing the mic very close to the cone (maybe a bit further back if you are recording very loudly) but off to one side a bit so that the mic is pointing to the edge of the cone. If you put it dead on you are gonna get too much of a proximity effect which basically equates to booming bass that will ruin your mix. This is because, when your mic is that close to the speaker and right in the middle, the air coming off the speaker thrashes the mic and all you hear is thud thud thud.

One trick to try is this: Get someone to play a repeating riff or chord progression or something whilst listening to the mix through headphones. Then, get someone else to slowly move the mic around while they play (this guy might wanna wear earplugs for this, since he's gonna be in close proximity to the speakers). When the mix in the phones sounds good, kick or yell or something to let the guy know that the mics are in a good spot. You will eventually find that different cabs have different sweet spots where the frequencies are fairly balanced. What you want to avoid is having it too close (too much bass) or too far (too much mid and high-end). Also, invest in one to three more mics if you are serious about recording. I record with 2 (probably moving to 3 soon once I get another mic-stand) and most professional musicians have probably 4-5. You want to have 2 right up there getting the blast of the speakers, then 2 or 3 further back for some "room" in the tone. Usually you mix these mics fairly low because they sound a bit weird, but having them loud enough just for presence will make your tone more desirable.

Also, try panning guitars hard left, hard right and dead centre, instead of 50/50. This will give you the "wall of sound" effect and it's very dramatic, especially if you play all three tracks identical to each other.

As for the actual song, it's not entirely to my liking, but it's definitely got promise. Tell your vocalist to record something and put it back up here for us.

Hey I took your advice about recording with more mics. A while back I had terrible results with micing my old amp with more than one mic so I was staying away with micing with more than one mic with this amp. However I have 3 mics and 2 cables and a load of stands. So I used my SM57 close to the same position where I found the best sound coming through and then I used my bands MXL 990 condensor mic about 1 foot away from the grill and I Moved it around until I got a nice sound from it which was to the side of the amp and up around the area of the knobs. I mixed them together trying not to mix the condensor too much because I would get way to much room noise and I wanted a pretty tight sound for the style of music I play. Well I ended up panning my tracks 100 percent left and 100 percent right and then dead center. I came up with this tone. Its called Test Tone. Check it out see if I did better this time. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=622812