Comments on: Improve Your Recordings and Mixes, on the Cheap http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/ Home recording and project studio blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:14:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Mercynomore http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-70272 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:51:15 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-70272 Man...is my fav blog dead? I hope not...real shame. Man…is my fav blog dead? I hope not…real shame.

]]> by: gMoney http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-65511 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:27:40 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-65511 Matt just beat me to the punch, but I was just about to say the same thing...mic placement is crucial. I also dig the suggestion of listening on separate sources. Naturally, you'll be listening to your mix on your studio reference monitors, but also give it a listen with headphones. I normally check a mix on my home theatre system, a junky boombox, and even mix it down to a 96k mp3, just to see how the mix might sound after ruthless bitrate compressions. Matt just beat me to the punch, but I was just about to say the same thing…mic placement is crucial. I also dig the suggestion of listening on separate sources. Naturally, you'll be listening to your mix on your studio reference monitors, but also give it a listen with headphones. I normally check a mix on my home theatre system, a junky boombox, and even mix it down to a 96k mp3, just to see how the mix might sound after ruthless bitrate compressions.

]]> by: Matt Hindt http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-64610 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:28:18 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-64610 I've found proper microphone placement is the first step in producing great recordings. This saves huge amounts of time during mixing. The next step is using a reference CD during EQ if you are a beginner. All said, you have to experiment to find what sounds the best. I've found proper microphone placement is the first step in producing great recordings. This saves huge amounts of time during mixing. The next step is using a reference CD during EQ if you are a beginner. All said, you have to experiment to find what sounds the best.

]]> by: Yamil http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-62058 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:35:23 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-62058 Seriously, I love this blog. What's going on? Seriously, I love this blog. What's going on?

]]> by: Peter http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-61733 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:39:41 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-61733 What happened to this blog ? Where is everybody !!! ? What happened to this blog ? Where is everybody !!! ?

]]> by: dialashop http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-60562 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:24:56 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-60562 I have read the tips and they are very useful and I have seen a major improvement in my songs and mixes in general because I am a bit more organised in practising before I record and the biggest tip I like you have mentioned is to try the song in different environments like on a car stereo. cheap old casette recorder. I also find the tip using a reference cd useful idea. I have read the tips and they are very useful and I have seen a major improvement in my songs and mixes in general because I am a bit more organised in practising before I record and the biggest tip I like you have mentioned is to try the song in different environments like on a car stereo. cheap old casette recorder. I also find the tip using a reference cd useful idea.

]]> by: Steve http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-57316 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:53:10 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-57316 Cool Songs, dave ! Production sounds dated for me though ... I prefer the more contemporary sounds. ... maroon5 or so, they're louder and more kick ass !!!! ;-) Cool Songs, dave ! Production sounds dated for me though …
I prefer the more contemporary sounds. … maroon5 or so, they're louder and more kick ass !!!! ;-)

]]> by: dave http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-57246 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:22:51 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-57246 Here's an answer for Jim Roberts' question... first, I try to listen to great-sounding recordings in whatever style I'm planning to record in (i.e. guitar-and-vocal sounds different from, say, metal). But here are some reference points for me, albums I listen to specifically for recording and production quality: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours, Tusk The Carpenters: Gold (seriously!) Wilco: Summerteeth, YHT, Sky Blue Sky Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots Radiohead: OK Computer Eagles: Hotel California David Bowie: Scary Monsters Neil Young: Harvest Neko Case: Blacklisted Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon Pink Floyd: Animals, DSOTM Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Sandy Denny: The Northstar Grassmen and the Ravens Son Volt: Trace Steve Tibbetts: Exploded View, Safe Journey Tom Waits: Rain Dogs (the semi-alphabetical order suggests a surf through my iPod) All of these albums, besides being great albums in their own right, are masterpieces of recording and production in some way or another, and I touch on them all for ideas about how things should sound. Here's an answer for Jim Roberts' question… first, I try to listen to great-sounding recordings in whatever style I'm planning to record in (i.e. guitar-and-vocal sounds different from, say, metal). But here are some reference points for me, albums I listen to specifically for recording and production quality:

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours, Tusk
The Carpenters: Gold (seriously!)
Wilco: Summerteeth, YHT, Sky Blue Sky
Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots
Radiohead: OK Computer
Eagles: Hotel California
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
Neil Young: Harvest
Neko Case: Blacklisted
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon
Pink Floyd: Animals, DSOTM
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Sandy Denny: The Northstar Grassmen and the Ravens
Son Volt: Trace
Steve Tibbetts: Exploded View, Safe Journey
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs

(the semi-alphabetical order suggests a surf through my iPod)

All of these albums, besides being great albums in their own right, are masterpieces of recording and production in some way or another, and I touch on them all for ideas about how things should sound.

]]> by: Jim Robert http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-56914 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:54:22 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-56914 I've been telling my friends to get a second opinion on their mixes for years! I'll be sending them this way... vindication! also, what mixes do you use for reference mixes? I'd be curious to hear I've been telling my friends to get a second opinion on their mixes for years! I'll be sending them this way… vindication!

also, what mixes do you use for reference mixes? I'd be curious to hear

]]> by: Steve http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-56471 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:53:56 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2008/05/31/improve-your-recordings-and-mixes-on-the-cheap/#comment-56471 I'm using a trick to reveal the quality on vocals : Put the song on a headphone, leave it on a desk , and listen to it. If the songs till touches you, it's really good ! Or ? Cheers, Steve I'm using a trick to reveal the quality on vocals :

Put the song on a headphone, leave it on a desk , and listen to it.
If the songs till touches you, it's really good !

Or ?

Cheers, Steve

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