a band i just finished recording

Manfred-Klose

the bands name is "SCARLEQUIN"

http://soundcloud.com/scarlequin-band

this was a very fun project, all 4 tracks were recorded live in a big open factory(the echo on the drums is whats pickup by the overheads), so its not very tight, but it has that certain loose garage rock sound we were after, bass was recorded with a JCM 800 , guitar tracks, tele into marshall jcm800 and my peavey delta blues, panned left, my Sanox into the same setup, panned right. the guitars and vocals was done in 1 take from start to end.

did all of this under 12 hours including setup and stuff.
recorded to a laptop with a 8channel firewire pre sonus (thanks Kaydub for lending it to me for the day)

it was difficult to mix the drums with all that echo, as it eats up alot of the mix, but between that and the guitar i seem to have got a balance.

these were demos i did for that band, just to have some recordings before they go to a proper studio to lay some tracks down.

i'd be keen to get some comments on this

AlanRatcliffe

Reverb's not too bad. You can always gate the kick, bass and anything you want to tighten up a bit. I'd rather take a DI from the bass and use that for the recording.

Overall a bit bright - you have a bit of a presence buildup in the mix, especially on the distorted guitars and the vocals.

The vocals need de-essing badly thanks to the presence. But it sounds like the singer has an interesting voice to try capture. He's got an edge to his voice that you have to be careful to balance properly to avoid his voice getting a chipmunk quality. I'd probably start with a LDD like the SM7 to try smooth out the edge without losing it.

Manfred-Klose

thanks alan.

yeah we had noise problems with the DI of the bass and could not sort it as it was starting to waste time(only had the location for limited time), so did that as i last resort.

we didn't really have the best gear to do this, as i did for free for the band, we had to do with what we had, but they going into studio later this year.