Skatasticulous!
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Posted on Mar 09, 2006 06:41 pm
Techmonkey
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Member Since: Feb 22, 2006
haha well maybe not quite. Here's my ska band covering Reel Big Fish's cover of "Take On Me", we're not brilliant, and we had some issues with the way we did the guide track (we forgot to count ourselves in and to keep counting in the gaps in the song), and we had so many problems micing the horns that we basically had to delete the trumpet and the sax is sort of distorted...
When our saxophonist gets his baritone we'll be re-recording (and cutting the horns at his place with his equipment). Please let me know what we can do for next time!
www.freewebs.com/techmonkey/takeonme.mp3
Edit: To make the file work, right click and save as!
Edit 2: The link works now!!!
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 09, 2006 10:05 pm Techmonkey, I tried it and it wants to save it as an html file. And the file isnt recognized by media player either. Not sure whats up with that but you might want to re upload it. If you paste that address into the web borwser it just comes up with page not found.
Although I did go to your homepage and watched that video. Pretty cool actually. Nice hovercraft by the way. Couldnt get your media page to open though.
TechmonkeyGrand master skankerMember
Since: Feb 22, 2006
Mar 10, 2006 11:01 am Thanks for the heads up! Not sure what's happening there, I'll try and sort it out now.
And thanks lol, the hovercraft is coming along slowly - we need to get that gallery up and running properly soon, just so much work to do!!
TechmonkeyGrand master skankerMember
Since: Feb 22, 2006
Mar 10, 2006 11:11 am Ok it's working now! you don't need to save it as anymore, but you can if you want to. Haha I just uploaded the filename with spaces in it. thanks for letting me know!
Mar 10, 2006 12:30 pm Well, ska is not my thing, though I played in a Christian based ska-ish sort of band for a while.
The mix seems really heavy on the right side and the vocalist is horribly out of tune a few times, but thats not a production thing...thats a performance thing...at times the horn(s) really overpower the vocals to the point where they were hard to hear. Perhaps look in to some automation to change levels at certain parts...
Good, sorta catchy tune on the whole.
Mar 10, 2006 02:21 pm Mix is heavy on the right... Need to bring the drums out better (mostly the cymbals), kinda muddled right now. Fun tune though... I'm not into Ska, so I don't have much to offer...
TechmonkeyGrand master skankerMember
Since: Feb 22, 2006
Mar 10, 2006 02:47 pm Thanks for the help guys! I hadn't noticed the mix being too heavy on the right before you mentioned it, but I can hear it now. Will fix that now.
And the horns overpowering the vocals was pretty much because the sax is basically exactly the same frequency as the vocals in that part - When our saxophonist gets his bari it'll be two octaves lower (seriously, that thing's like a foghorn, it's amazing) which should help somewhat.
As for the drums, we had a lot of problems with that... They seem to be lacking something and I can't quite tell what it is. We're using the line out from a digital kit (Roland TDK something)straight through the board... but it sounds sort of sterile. We've tried reverb but it doesn't help much. Is it just a case of the gain being too high when we recorded? Is it worth recording the drums from the midi out on the synth module and sampling them later??
Mar 10, 2006 02:51 pm Well, I want comment on the drums, but the MIDI data being sampled later could be a solution.
As far as the sax and vocals...you should try notching out a space in the frequency for each to have bands for themselves. I know you are redoing it, but, here is an article well worth reading as it's likely this isn't the only time you'll deal with frequency range collision www.homerecordingconnecti...tory&id=154
TechmonkeyGrand master skankerMember
Since: Feb 22, 2006
Mar 10, 2006 05:03 pm Whoa, thanks for the link to the article!! I mean, I knew notching frequencies helped, but I wasn't so sure on how to do it. I'm working on doing it for all of the tracks on the recording... It's really separating everything up, and getting rid of some of the distortion!
I think though the sax track itself has distortion on it in the loud parts, and I'm not entirely sure how we can get around that... We had problems when recording the sax and trumpet. The mic kept cutting out during recording, we had to heavily compress it to get a usable track at all. I think perhaps the equipment might have overheated if that's possible - we'd been using it all day. Either way, we're gonna have another shot at recording it when our saxophonist gets his bari.
