Settle a band vs studio fight

[Aus_rock_god]

Hey dudes,

I'm posting this for 2 reasons:

1. To prove that you don't need to spend more than $500 to get a quality recording if you know where to look (we got 6 tracks done for $430).

2. To see if anyone actually likes the way this song is played.

More or less, we wanted to go for a live sound with our EP, and recorded all our instruments at the same time (vocals seperately).

This is the last track on the EP, that the studio tech was generous enough to give us (the blip at the start was the result of him unplugging the talkback mic while exporting the track, realising that his little rant about pro-tools was coming out on the track, which is a good thing, coz we can't run away with this track and record the vocals somewhere else and not give him money).

Does this sound good? Can you notice any mistakes????

http://download.yousendit.com/A827CAA66ADC0567 (http://download.yousendit.com/A827CAA66ADC0567)

Rock on.

[stevenkeith]

The playing is good.

however..:(

the producer talking thing isn't too great and there's a funny bleepy thing around 25 secs in. Apart from those obvious things, my other niggle is the bass sounds really flappy if you get what i mean. Its almost too percusive and the melody is somewhat lost.

Id say, keep it if its for a free demo for getting gigs etc. but id discard it if it was for say an EP that you intended charging.

[Phototropic]

good tune, guitars were very tight with each other, the little blips are annoying as hell though, the guy talking, noise at around 25 secs etc

[cadencethefire]

You guys don't have a singer?

the producer talking in the beginning sounds out of place as well as those obnoxious blips. You really don't need to spend a whole lot of money for and awesome recording. For an 8 hour day at love juice (where travis barker tracks his drums) it's about the same price AND for an extra 100 bucks the engineer will master it too

I'd say track the drums at a studio and do everything else at home...

[Aus_rock_god]

Yeah, the vocals are yet to be recorded.

I definatly agree with the bass. Andrew plays an vintage emperador bass which is a joy to play but has no balls.

No-one pointed out the things we were worried about, so I guess we'll keep it.

It will sound much better when it's mastered, that's just the raw sound with no eqing or soundgateing whatsoever.