Ummmm. Errmmm So apart from the drums, guitars and bass? it sounds good? :P

DAMNNN, SLS? If I had that much space to mess about with I'd open up a Tesco Superstore

 

ooooh Well I hope ya don't think I meant you VS:O

I think he was meant to, that's why he was picked to be in a Rocky Film!

 

@Sylenth.Will.Fall If you want a real guitar track let me know. I think I remember it.

 

I appreciate it, I really do, and I may take you up on that offer one day, it's just I'm totally fed up with that song now. I'm going to destr..... I mean I'm going to try and do something else!

 

Actually the biggest problem in home studios is acoustics. Speakers too close to walls, low ceilings, no treatment on the wall or ceiling.
It all affects the output of that studio. A tuned room will sound good regardless of the size. An untuned room will always produce bad results.
Good for demos, not final releases.

 

don't puncture the balloon. the incessant shallow imagery reflects the trivial wholesale content, it has been worse. its not like it should surprise you by now..

 

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I was just thinking. After Mr T lost, I saw him advertising Snickers Bars. No point to it, I just had a stupid thought, and well I had to share it. (Blame @Foster, he made me listen to something which I can only describe as a fate worse than death, and it's messed up my brain somehow!)

@Foster, I hope you don't mind me sharing it here.

 

Very restrained.

Thanks for the thought taskforce, the new normal is challenging though I have high hopes for the future. Glad you stopped in and hope to see your avatar gracing the left side more often, you always strew pearls into any conversation and I too have missed you here.
Of course Gabriel's studio is an extreme, extreme example, though by definition it is attached to his home. There have been in the last 15 or so years been bands using their money to buy gear and rent temporarily the gear to enable them to bypass the traditional studio and to go it boldly on their own. The Foo Fighters stand foremost in my memory with their home brewed "There Is Nothing Left To Lose", but many, many have and will take thus route. The days of every band needing to rely on the traditional structure to record their album is both a godsend as well as a curse in my eyes. The godsend is fairly obvious as the availability and relative cost of gear being the upside, but what we have lost is the professionalism of that industry, people coming up through the ranks mentored by professionals who pass along their own lifetimes of knowledge, and learning by hands on experience until they understand and can internalize down to the cellular level what it takes to be a consummate professional in their own right. Going to school at universities and schools offering audio degrees these days in many countries is great, and one can pick up the basics , but it is not close to the same as the guild system. On one hand we have lost a treasure trove of knowledge and the system to hand down that knowledge to the next generation, and on the other the tools of the trade are now available to those that can afford them now that there is competition and fantastic quality to take advantage of. On a personal level and also the group dynamic level there are both winning and losing scenarios. In addition, the internet is amazing as a way to distribute knowledge to the masses and as such the paradigm has flipped 180° from just a few years ago. Let's see what it brings in the long run. Times they are forever changing, let us hope that this new cycle can bring us all up together and carry us on its shoulders with the strength of these new ideas fused with the tried and true to help create a profitable coming decade for any and for all in the way of knowledge, professionalism, quality and creativity.

 

the SECRET, to home recording ( or any recording)
is
drumroll............................................


getting it RIGHT at the source........................

 

Yea, but that is also a skill.

 

huh...... it can't be 'fixed in the mix'?

 

The biggest problem of home production is lack of interesting musical ideas.

 

@Rasputin check this thread:
https://audiosex.pro/threads/guys-what-is-ur-soundcloud-account.31702/

 

I've gotta say I'm somewhat guilty of this. But I take the advice to re-record tracks very seriously. Especially considering what I've learned in the last couple of years from this site regarding mixing. The advice is always spot on. Sometimes not what you want to hear, but that's the way it goes. But I feel like my next time I do some tracking, things will be different. I've got better ideas about mic placement, gain staging, and sound isolation. Plus my ears have really been honed as to what to listen for so that mixing won't require so much fixing to get it right. I think the results of the mix are directly reflected by the amount of processing/eqing you have to do.
Oh the frowns on my bandmates faces when I tell them "you've got to redo this track"... Priceless.

 

I'm not sure if that was supposed to refute or support my assertion, but...

 

I heard some great stuff and followed a few of them.
Do you have a Soundcloud or is that too 'home production' for ya? I see a great forum with some great talent I would love to collab with. In fact i just connected with a funky groove bass player,

Good luck with your music.