| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 02/22/01 at 15:21:26
Here are the new songs:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/75/inch_connecticut.html
And here's our website:
www.inchconnecticut.com
These are home recordings done on a Fostex E16 1/2" reel to reel. ::)
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by Seymour | 02/22/01 at 17:36:24
Hey, I like it. Good music. Recording is a little rough around the edges but it has a really nice natural essence about it.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by Steve_S. | 02/22/01 at 19:29:22
I liked this a lot..... It reminded me of Big D's song "Stuck on You" from SubT 4. I liked the vocal reverb a lot but would have turned the effect down just a tad. I really liked the guitar work and the general mix sounded good considering that I was hearing this on Real Player.....
Keep up the great work!! ;)
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by Jim | 02/22/01 at 19:57:02
I liked the songs. I think you have done well in keeping to the pop-punk sound of the 70s-early 80's with the heavy reverb, simple bright rythms and the natural band sound, was that intentional?. For a home recording I give it a serious thumbs up.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by Steve_S. | 02/23/01 at 06:02:00
[size=4]....by the way, I was listening to "Air People"........[/size]
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 02/23/01 at 11:46:19
[quote author=Seymour link=board=music2&num=982880486&start=0#1 date=02/22/01 at 17:36:24]
Hey, I like it. Good music. Recording is a little rough around the edges but it has a really nice natural essence about it.
Thanks for listening Seymour. I hope to make the next one better. That was the first time I've ever recorded at home other than 4 track cassette DI stuff.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 02/23/01 at 11:48:36
[quote author=Steve_S. link=board=music2&num=982880486&start=0#2 date=02/22/01 at 19:29:22]
I liked this a lot..... It reminded me of Big D's song "Stuck on You" from SubT 4. I liked the vocal reverb a lot but would have turned the effect down just a tad. I really liked the guitar work and the general mix sounded good considering that I was hearing this on Real Player.....
Keep up the great work!! ;)
Thanks for checking it out. I did the recording stuff and the singer did most of the mixing. I tried to get him to take it easy on the effects, but he insisted. I guess it turned out okay after all. When you hear the songs in context (all on a cd) it's okay because some songs are dry and others are saturated with effects like that.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 02/23/01 at 11:53:10
[quote author=Jim link=board=music2&num=982880486&start=0#3 date=02/22/01 at 19:57:02]
I liked the songs. I think you have done well in keeping to the pop-punk sound of the 70s-early 80's with the heavy reverb, simple bright rythms and the natural band sound, was that intentional?. For a home recording I give it a serious thumbs up.
Thanks! I guess it was intentional. I grew up listening to that kind of music, and I really dislike the new pop/rock sound where everything is really crisp and clear. I like some funky stuff going on down there in the mix. Like Fall albums from the 80's, produced by John Leckie. All that atmosphere is something I'd like to capture. But anyway, the songs Air People and Fire at Will were live takes with the backing vocal and 2nd guitar part overdubbed. They were also 1st takes, out of about 4 each. Funny how the 1st take always has the best energy.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by CGibson | 03/01/01 at 22:31:46
Hey man just got a chance to check em out.
Sounds really good for a first recording. Nice job on all, Keep up the good work :D
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by osnava15 | 03/18/01 at 22:54:54
cool tune, (air people)
What was that at the end of the song?? Some sort of talking? How did you do that?? On modern blood, how did you get that delay on the snare drum?
osnava15@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 03/19/01 at 11:31:08
[quote author=osnava15 link=board=music2&num=982880486&start=0#9 date=03/18/01 at 22:54:54]
cool tune, (air people)
What was that at the end of the song?? Some sort of talking? How did you do that?? On modern blood, how did you get that delay on the snare drum?
osnava15@hotmail.com
Those were the air people talking! :P Actually, that was a shortwave broadcast run through an oscillating filter. If you listen you'll hear that throughout the song in varying degrees. It's at the beginning as well, during the drum clicks.
For the delay I used a Lexicon MPX100, mono delay setting. It's a cheap effects unit but it has some pretty good delays and reverbs.
Thanks for listening! 8)
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by JR#97 | 03/29/01 at 12:11:50
Great vocals. On some of the tunes, I liked how they were heavy reverbed and back in the mix. On a few of the others, they were too far back. I would have produced the songs a little different, but that's just me. Good stuff all around.
Subject: Re: lemme know what you think...
by ds | 03/29/01 at 16:48:09
[quote author=JR#97 link=board=music2&num=982880486&start=0#11 date=03/29/01 at 12:11:50]
Great vocals. On some of the tunes, I liked how they were heavy reverbed and back in the mix. On a few of the others, they were too far back. I would have produced the songs a little different, but that's just me. Good stuff all around.
Thanks for listening. You know, it was really a compromise between me (bass player) and the singer. He would heavily drench with reverb, I would convince him to turn it down, etc. We had to make a compromise. I agree though, I would have mixed it differently and would like to re-record it, but it's time to move on to new projects.