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Home Recording Forum - Bash This Recording http://forum.recordingreview.com/ Post your songs and mixes up for Bashing. Songwriting, performances, recording, and mixing will all be judged. en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:09:23 GMT vBulletin 10 http://forum.recordingreview.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Home Recording Forum - Bash This Recording http://forum.recordingreview.com/ fHumble fHingaz - Corny Little Ditty? http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24418&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:10:30 GMT This was a tune written by a friend's friend - an older guy who writes songs as a hobbie. My friend usually arranges & mixes them, but this time he gave a few to me to have a go at... He just gave me a live drum track, a single vocal & a piano track. At first hearing I thought it was rather corny, but I kind of got drawn in by the vocal that another friend had put on it for him... It conjured up a kind of '80's new wave Blondie / Cars vibe in my mind, so I went with it & layed down all the rest of the music myself... I really don't know if it's any great shakes as a song, but I sure had fun doing it - I'm keen to know your opinions, good or bad - let me have it!

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Robbie & Johnnie Mix 1.mp3 (8.09 MB)

]]> Bash This Recording fHumble fHingaz http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24418 Help me getting this acoustic guitar sound right http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24417&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:42 GMT Hi everyone!

I'm working on this project trying to cover Your Song from Elton John and I plan on using my acoustic guitar to play a bunch of the piano parts in the beginning of the song. To get the song to build up to an orchestral ending I want the beginning just to be an acoustic guitar and a bass.
So I need a very good acoustic guitar sound :)

I'm using a L'Arrivee OM-5, recorded with a AKG C2000B positioned at the neck, slighty turned towards the hole, I'd say the mic had a distance of about 2 feet.
Now I'm been trying for about a week to get the sound I want but still I'm not satisfied and I'm hoping you guys could give me some tips on how to shape the sound to a more interesting one...

I'm attaching two files, one of the dry recording and one after I've touched it up.

1. MonoToStereo
2. SSL Channel E for EQing
3. API-2500 for a bit compression

I'm looking forward to your opinions!

Cheers, :beerbangX:

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	Acoustic Guitar - before.mp3 (703.0 KB)
	Acoustic Guitar - after.mp3 (703.0 KB)

]]> Bash This Recording Iemand33 http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24417 A famous movie Sweets Sweepstakes http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24404&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:04:16 GMT "Is popcorn here to stay?" That's the $64 question being bounced back and forth by the nations motion picture theatre operators at the moment. Some say yes, some say no and some say maybe. But whether popcorn stays or goes, the fact is that the sale of the crunchy stuff in movie houses has reached astronomical proportions. Exactly how much theatres are earning in "extra profits" is anybody's guess, but no one denies that the total runs into many millions and that the returns on popcorn are far out ahead of those on candy and soft drinks. The last two are, however, steadily increasing in sales volume.Approximately 85 per cent of the nation's 16,000 movie houses, from the modest little places in the backwoods to the glittering palaces in the big cities, are keeping their customers happily stuffed with sweets. In fact, some theatre men say that they make bigger profits on such sales than they do by showing Hollywood's celluloid corn. The weekly gross in popcorn and candy sales--some theatres also offer peanuts and ice cream-- ranges all the way from a modest $50 for a hole-in-the-wall theatre to several thousand dollars in larger and more ornate establishments. For instance, the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, a 5,000-seater, reportedly averages $4,000 a week on its sweet-tooth customers.According to a spokesman for a theatre chain, who has kept close tabs on the situation, few houses gross less than $100 a week on popcorn and candy. "Multiply $100 by 16,000 theatres," he said, "and what do you get?--$1,600,00 per week. Now multiply that by fifty-two weeks. That gives you $83,200,000, a very conservative estimate," he said airily.
If you want to look more please enter into this website enjoynike.com ]]> Bash This Recording andy20090 http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24404 Old Metallica-inspired Thrash metal http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24362&goto=newpost Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:14:49 GMT So I recorded this track for a local thrash band on Monday. Group of pretty young guys, by no means pro musicians, but if they keep at it they'll no doubt get better.

Anyways these guys called me up on Sunday telling me they needed to record a track and have it ready by Wednesday for their friend whose making a music video for them for a school project or something.

Point of the story is I had 2 days to both track and mix this song, talk about rush...It took all of monday to track, and I used all of yesterday to mix. No doubt sitting there for hours trying to get a whole mix done rendered my ears pretty useless by the end... but a time limit is a time limit and it had to be done.

I was trying to aim towards an old metallica sound, as their music quite obviously reflects this motive... listening back to it now, I'm thinking my hats are a tad much, and the verb on the snare could probably be toned down after the intro, if not altogether.

Let me know what you think. I myself am still pretty Novice at mixing, so even though they didn't pay me nearly enough to go back and spend hours touching the mix up, I might try and do it anyways for the sake of practice.

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Machine - Scavanger's Daughter.mp3 (10.09 MB)

]]> Bash This Recording LunarJK http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24362 check out this home recording - where can we improve? http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24331&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:01:55 GMT Thirty 3 Threes - ReverbNation (http://www.reverbnation.com/thirty3threes) let us know what you think Thirty 3 Threes - ReverbNation

let us know what you think ]]> Bash This Recording thirty3threes http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24331 My curse http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24327&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:07 GMT this also posted on the rock/metal thread but i figured, what the hell, I also wanted to hear your thoughts!:D take a swing on this mix. this also posted on the rock/metal thread but i figured, what the hell, I also wanted to hear your thoughts!:D take a swing on this mix.

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my curse mix 2.mp3 (7.05 MB)

]]> Bash This Recording brianinogang http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24327 Homeless Home- HIT or Miss?? http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24321&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:05:38 GMT I would like to know whether people feel this song could be a hit exactly as it is. I wouldn't ask this, I know it's tacky- but it's what I'd like to know.

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Homeless.mstr.6a.mp3 (4.45 MB)

]]> Bash This Recording Chazamatazz http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24321 Song demos for bar cover band http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24294&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:55:14 GMT Hey everyone, just looking to get some feedback on some recordings I've done with my band recently. Not sure about cover rules but I guess I'll find out...

Just to give a quick backstory, our goal is to come up with three full sets of new and old hard rock tunes to try and make some money and gain some experience. We've only been playing together for a short time as a three piece and are all playing our secondary instruments funny enough.

Okay now a quick description of what I've done. We practise in a small dead-sounding room quite loud, but not ear plug loud as we have electronic drums, solid state bass amp, and a Marshall amp with a 15/50 watt switch.

Capture device: Zoom H4N handheld field recorder
Mics: SM57 on the Marshall and an Audio Technica that came with a stand...
Drums: Roland TD-20 electronic kit direct out
Guitar: New stock Gibson Les Paul Standard
Guitar amp: Marshall (not sure what model) full stack at 15-25 watts or so
Bass: A beat up 80's Dean with only a neck pick up
Bass amp: Old Peavy head through an even older Ampeg 6x10. Fuzzy tone.

This was all put into Logic 8 on my Macbook Pro where I did my thang. No double tracking/overdubs, live off the floor. Just three tracks. I would love to hear some input.

Attached Files

	little devil.mp3 (3.21 MB)
	talk to her.mp3 (4.13 MB)
	vines.mp3 (2.16 MB)

]]> Bash This Recording Chasedawg http://forum.recordingreview.com/showthread.php?t=24294