Proof that you can make good recordings on a budget

[anecdota]

Here's my new song. "Somnia Elliptica". I think for what I payed for everything I'm using...it sounds pretty damn good. I mean the Jem was a grand, but aren't they all?

http://myspace.com/chrisgilbertmusic

Please check it out and comment...Add me as a friend. Whatever. Just enjoy it.

Chris.

[Onion]

sounds good dude.

[Ibateur]

Agree with Onion. But I'd lower the backing guitar, and raise the bass and snare drums.

[Spider-Skot]

Dude...you're really good. You people make me sick! The only things I didn't like was, like Ibateur said, bring up the bass and I didn't really care for the drum sound that much. If you'd like, I could try to duplicate your drum track with the program I use to see how it would sound. Otherwise, wow!

[mi2tom]

Very good and yeah bring the backing guitar down

[anecdota]

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm 18 so I really haven't dealt much with the mixing process at getting good levels of everything. And currently I don't have a bass guitar anymore...so there ISN'T a bass in any of my songs yet.

I am working on mixing this song according to your guys' feedback I've gotten so far.

But my recording equipment was DIRT CHEAP. I use a behringer v-amp pro ($100), I bought a decent DELL at a thrift store for $100 bucks...monitor keyboard everything, plus DVD player and cdrw drive and 40 GB HD. What I actually use to record only cost me about 250 or so all together...not including my guitar and wah pedal.

[anecdota]

mi2tom, what program do you use? I'm using PC drummer with just different WAV files for the kit that I've put together. It sucks - there's no way to actaully adjust the equalization of each peice in the kit without actually taking each wave file and editing it and saving it as a new one.

[Spider-Skot]

mi2tom didn't mention drums That was me. I use a program called "Drums!" from www.guitar.sk . It costs $50 and it uses real recorded drum samples and there are several kits and different stuff. I like to mix n' match. There's an edit feature where you can modify the drum, EQ, reverb, pitch all in a seperate window, then you just save it and reload. I went and did like the first minute and a half of the song with this program and it sounds really cool. You don't have this song available to actually download so I can't put it together for you to hear it for yourself. And I have a bass, too I genuinely like this song and would love to be somehow involved with it

[Al M]

Yea its all sounding pretty good to me. But you do need to re-mix and master it IMO.