Lo-Fi Recording

[jonasdixon]

https://www.yousendit.com/download/U0d4 ... R0YzZUE9PQ

The song is called skeletons, I recorded and played everything in 4 hours, and then didn't edit SHIEEETTT.



Let me know what you think of the sonic quality ( I was going for early weezer )

[trevord]

nice
very close to perfect (IMHO of course)
the only things i would do
1) keep the kick in the second verse - just to keep the song growing
2) find a way to not bury the kick in chorus - maybe notch the bass/dist. guitar to leave room for the kick in the compression/limiting

question - i noticed a lack of "room" was this all di or close mic'ing?
its had a nice "live" feel - some more "room" would add that jam atmosphere

but nice tho - i like it

[Corey Y]

I think you got pretty close to your goal with the early Weezer aesthetic, touch of Beatles sound to it as well. You did your own thing though, good song.

I like the "low-fi" sound. I agree that the kick could be a bit more present in the mix. Otherwise I think it sounds nice, good job.

What was your set up/signal chain for recording this?

[jonasdixon]

I was going for that 100H thump with the kick, but I can bring out some high mids, or compress the bass out. Maybe in the 2nd verse I can do a kick with less sub than the chorus.

I wanted to keep it dry for the weezer kinda sound. It was indeed all close mic'ing though.

Thanks guys

[jonasdixon]

oh shiznat. I missed that last part.

lets see..

I used my UA 8110 for the drums
Mic's as follows

Kick - SM57 at the front of the drum (no front head) and a blanket draped over.
Snare - SM57 on top, beyer m-88 on bottom
Rack and Floor - 421's
overheads - Nuemann km-184s

The drums were recorded in an iso booth.

For the acoustic guitar its actually an old 50's kay electric guitar (Very hollow) I mic'd that with an SM 57 at a 45 degree angle pointing at the neck pickup from about 5 inches away. That went into my M610

The bass was a fender P bass into my UA M610.

The Guitars were the same hollow body 50's Kay a Mesa Boogie Mark 2? head into a bogner 1x12, Sm57 off the cone on a 45 into the M610.

And vocals were an SM-57 into the M610 as well.

[allyouneedisears]

I totally enjoyed listening to that, thanks for sharing.

[jkelly222]

I wouldn't call this lo-fi by any means but it's not over the top production either. It's somewhere in the middle. I could totally hear this on the radio. Very well mixed. Sound quality is great. I've never been into Weezer or bands that sound like Weezer though so I'm not that into the song, to be honest. The intro kind of reminds me of early Bowie which is cool to me. All the junk about the bass drum sums up to totally doesn't matter. Sounds great.

[theBlubberRanch]

Not that it matters because I like this a lot
but it seems like there isn't much real low end.

[Corey Y]

Thanks for the info. Given the use of some nice UA pres, that I'm envious of, I don't know that I'd say "lo-fi". It's got a great character to it though.

[jonasdixon]

ok ok, hi fi recording, lo fi production.




I thought it was pretty okay on the low end, and on my spectrum analyzer it looks to be fine. I'll have to check that out.


I am about to buy a pair of API 500 series pres and rack them up in this.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/500HR/

And then I think I'll be done with pre-amps. maybe...

[theBlubberRanch]

On second listen, I take back my first comment about the low end.

[RefD]

i liked that and would love to hear more.