Live Version of Johnny B Goode.. Need lots of help

[pmontgomery89]

My band and I recorded this live at our sound check from our last gig. I wanted to get a live recording, but didn't realize that only having one shot at everything would make this so hard to mix. The Drums are recorded through an old mixer with only the kick, snare, and an overhead mic setup and basic levels. Then where put into my computer onto a left and a right stereo track. It might be hard to tell but I have got a lot of crap out from them (bad room sound and "boxiness"). I need advice on how to make them sound better, keeping in mind that anything I do will affect all the drums.. also the bass sounded kind of muffled, and the rhythm guitar was pure mud. The mic that was on it must have been poorly placed on accident. This is what I could to with the recording, and I am at a point that I need to ask for help desperatley. What can I do to make this recording really sound good or decent? Thanks. By the way I was wondering if anyone likes the version of Johnny B Goode we do? Everyone in our band loves it but the drummer.

[RicD]

I'm not able to listen to this on my monitors but here's my noob input.
When mixing my bands practice stuff ( we practice in a garage ) the mids are a bitch but yours isn't that bad. With the drums, the kick sounds really live and too boomy for me. I would put a LP on it around 80hz then around the 900 to 1k with a q of about 1.5 - 2.0 drop it alot then add about 3db around the 6k with a tight q, around 3 or more to give it a little slap. With the overheads which don't sound that bad ( I like the tom sounds you got ) I would copy the tracks say two times for a total of three. then I would compress one of them pretty hard to help bring out the cymbls. I think I would start with that one in the middle. Then hard pan ( or what sounds right ) the other 2 and compress them hard and add a little highs say 3k 1-2db shelf and add a touch of plate verb. send those 3 tracks to a buss by themselfs and add a MS vst to see if I could get some wider feel to them. The snare sounds nice to me. Just add a plate verb ( maybe even pan the verb a little ) then send all of this to a another buss and do an over all compression to taste.
This is only a start and may not work at all but if it helps, you might have a little more room for the bass which I would double, compress and have one of the tracks accenting the highs rolling off the lows and the other the other promoting the lows. mix to taste. This gives me a way of automating the 2 tracks so when I need lows or highs it's easier to get it.
I thinks i've said to much. Now you know I really don't know what i'm doing.
I've been playing this song in different bands sense the 70's. I liked your version. It's good simple R&R! Have you heard Judas Priest version?