First Recording on new Rig Done in One Night - Critique Plz

[maccampbells]

Happy to have found this board. Mucho information!

https://soundcloud.com/maccampbells/tha ... s-is-yours

We made this recording on our new rig; just a Presonus Firestudio Project in to Garageband with some Sm57's, Sm 58's, and some Sennheiser's.

We managed to get the live take of drums, guitar and bass all at once. Bass was direct and the guitar cab had a pedal board case in front of it. It reduced bleed through quite a bit though not perfect.

Then we cut another guitar part and started adding vocals. The main vocal was done with a "Red Howler" harmonica Mic, then I added the megaphone filter later. The next day I mixed it a bit with volume and pan automation. I think the overall volume is too quiet based on other songs played immediately before or after,

Any advice you can offer would be appreciated. It's a funny song and I think you can tell listening to it that we had quite the good time doing it.

Thanks.

[sproketboy]

Loved this song! Catchy and funny! Just shorten it a bit. You know ppl have a short attention span.

[maccampbells]

Loved this song! Catchy and funny! Just shorten it a bit. You know ppl have a short attention span.

Thanks! It was one of those things where we were having a good time and just wanted to keep the "tape" rolling. I'm going to work on taking out the long middle and shorten it up to 4 minutes.

Unfortunately I think the drum mics and EQ was better that our drum set.

[Gregg Juke]

Decent recording and funny song, but yeah, 7 minutes! Trim it down, man!

GJ

[Nick Sevilla]

Nice job.

I was able to listen all the way through. It is a bit meandering at times. If that is on porpoise, then cool. If not, as others have already suggested, maybe a radio edit is on order.

Cheers