Re: [LAU] Music made with Linux: What happened in the middle?

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:48:34 +1000, Robert Jonsson <spamatica(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Robert I suppose you could put the guitars in the 'podded' category. I have an older Boss GT-5 effects box. The guitar (Charvette (by Charvel)) goes into that, then into an Echo Audiofire4 firewire box and finally into the computer. The bass guitar, which I had to borrow just went direct into the Audiofire4. As for the drums, they're all manually programed into Hydrogen. Normally I wouldn't have left the hi-hats (amongst other things) as they were, but time got away from me. Also for most songs I didn't get a chance to put any effects on the drums. There's only a handful of quality Hydrogen kits available, but since you had some doubt that they were programed, they must get the job done :) I critique the vocals myself. I was this close to scrapping the whole thing due to my dissatisfaction with them. All the vocals were tracked on the 25th of Feb (the last Saturday in the month). With more time there would have been some re-recording and refinement. I didn't know the words either, and I know from hearing other singers, the performance is a damn site better if they don't need to read sing :) I'm not quite sure that you mean by 'there is too much room in the recording'. Could you elaborate please? I would suggest the lack of high frequencies, or just general lack of any other good stuff would be due to the sub-quality microphone I currently own. That's the next part of my setup which will get an upgrade. I agree that some more gritting vocals are called for on some songs too. By and large this is the first proper vocal recording I've done, so with any luck I'll get able to get somewhere close to how I want them to be with some more work. I appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment Robert. Regards Stuzz http://stuzz.bandcamp.com