Hey, I posted a while back in here showing you all my acoustic recordings. We recently went to a recording studio and recorded a song, we have been sent a rough version of the song (unmastered) and I was wondering if I could get your opinions. We set up a small myspace and put on a min or two preview of the end of track to show to people. You can listen to it here:

http://www.myspace.com/flyingcoloursuk

Thank you for your time!

p.s. Don't say things like "It needs mastering" or... "its not perfect". I don't want comments on the recording quality yet, but I DO want your opinions on the general sound and mainly the (slightly too loud) vocals.

Thanks 

Yeh haha thank you. Well the reason for the rythmic issues is to do with HOW we recorded it... There was a problem having to do every part individually and using a program OTHER then protools... Kinda sucked but the rhythmic issues WILL be fixed. Any more comments?

this could be good if you got your shit together

i know you dont want comments on recording quality but its pretty hard to tell what this is through the mess that currently is your recording.

if you recorded all the instruments separately did you cut off the frequencies that clash? thats one small trick that could drastically increase recording quality.

for example making sure that the kick and the bass peak at different frequencies (around 80-100 Hz for kick and 120-140 for bass maybe?)

also you could use a compressor to make sure the final mix really fills itself up

if you've already done either or both then the recording itself is pretty horrible. right now there's just noise clashing and kinda hard to separate the instruments sorry but this is just my point of view

as for the method of recording - first go play the whole band together and place mics nicely isolated at the drums and the bass. these two instruments SHOULD be recorded during a full-playthrough by the band but recorded into different tracks. then record every single other instrument over that (including vocals).

i need to become a producer one day

@lars: Yep... I agree with you 100%! The studio we went to (for free) didnt have a drum booth and ProTools wasnt set up on the computer so we were working around this problems. This isnt the final mix and the instruments seem a bit of a mess because it hasnt been mastered yet. Also my voice echos like crazy and I sound like im singing on a different plantet then the band. I am glad you think it could be good, thats hopeful haha. Thanks for your comments though, I will keep the frequency thing in mind.

Thankyou!
The guy is mixing it for us but we are emailing him are comments on the current state of the recording, I will update this post when we have it. Thanks!

Yeah the song is pretty good but atm the wall of bad soundquality kinda hinders the artistic beauty

Haha yeh, you can lock this if you want. The other band member took it down, we are awaiting the final mix! Thanks for your comments though, its all been taken into consideration.

I don't think so, it kind of gives it a special flavour... of some kind of tasty soup but that's just my opinion

yeah well as far as i can remember you're the king of horrible soundquality so where does that leave your statement...!

Haha... I agree with both of you and we are trying to find the right quality for us. We are going for the same kind of tone that you heard in the current recording but we deffinatly want it to sound alot less messy. I will bump and update this when the final mix comes. Thanks again guys!