Im new at this thing!

[Sam Joxer]

Hey, Im really new to recording, in general(so ANY criticism is appreciated). I kinda wanted to do a test, to see if Im really crazy, or if other people can notice something in my current recordings.

Heres something I just kinda tossed together, no lyrics.

But I think it shows why I want to get another system than garage band+internal mike on my laptop, as I want that improvement that isnt in the tone of my guitars(which I think are fine, not great, but fine) but in that there is almost this compression of the instruments into one type of sound. Am I going crazy thinking this?

Anyway, thanks for listening, heres the gear used if anyone cares.
Guitar is a
Gretsch Tennessee Rose (filtertrons, my fav) going into an 80's Fender Champ

-Rythm guitar uses a Deja-Vibe from Fulltone
-Lead is slide guitar, with a OCD Fulltone stompbox

Bass is a
Peavy Fury IV going into a Peavy Micro Bass

[lolzgreg]

You used a computer mic on your laptop to record this?

Not bad, champ.

I would get a recording interface. It wouldn't be a bad idea. You can't really judge anything from a computer mic other than that your bass and guitar sound pretty good and that your room sounds pretty good.

-Greg

[YAZAM68]

Like your guitar sound.... something new for me.

[Vulconizer]

I am curious about this internal mic on your laptop. It may be the culprit in the compressed sound.

[big_rob_cooper]

Recording that on an internal mic is fantastic but if its like my mac book the mic is very poor and you will become frustrated very quickly I think. My first interface was a USB from a zoom multi FX and that really opened up a lot of avenues using garageband - for very little cash. I've moved on since then to mic's firewire and a whole room in the house for my hobby but from your attempts so far you will be surpassing my efforts very soon.

Keep going at it.