Need help with volume and "energy"

Posted on Sep 19, 2004 02:44 pm
dydragon
Member Since: Sep 19, 2004

First of all, I'd like to thank the staff of HRC for their work, I learned a lot of useful things browsing the website.

Second, my question :)

I play in a band, we recorded the drums with 8 tracks, guitars with a 100w combo Marshall amp(park series), and the bass with a MarkBass Head. Well the overall sound is good (the instruments are good in the mix, every single instrument is easy to hear), but compared with other records it sounds lower, it hasn't the "energy" of the pro recordings (with "energy" I mean that combination of bass and volume spreading from the speakers :) ), but i don't know where i'm wrong. To finalize the song we used a little eq (lows and higs), and waves Ultramaxximizer.
The first time i was suggested to add more basses in the final eq to add power, but the levels are near the limit and i can only use small amounts of eq to avoid clipping.
We play a genre that is near punk-hardcore, very fast drums and distorted guitars, similar bands can be NOFX, lagwagon, but also Green Day, Yellowcard,etc....

thanks for your help

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