Little song from TheWorldFair

[TheDude]

Hello,

Here's the tune muh band recorded in my basement. We are scheduled for actual studio time friday, so we should have some more serious tracks then. I hope you guys like it. To be honest I never imagined myself playing this kind of music, but here I am.

https://soundcloud.com/theworldfair/sentimental-gentleman-from-1

 

[mmnz]

what are you playing in that? and sounds good especially since its a basement practice

 

[MelRose]

I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. I hope you plan on sharing more. Thanks for posting.

 

[TheDude]

I play guitar and do the high backup vocals.

 

[DamageINC]

He means he does his backup vocals high.

Sounded good.

 

[Rexz >:)]

Lovely

 

[Jana]

Wow, this is a very good recording! We recorded our band practice with a Zoom H4 too, but it is not a quarter as good as this!
And you seem to be a really good guitar player

 

[BuckRogers]

Dude! Excellent man! Y'all come over to the uk and do a party for me next summer?? Really enjoyed that mate!

@Jana - could you get a BIgger sig girl??!!

 

[Jana]

@BuckRogers - lol didn´t notice...can´t remember it beeing that big in the past

 

[TheDude]

If we get together travel money I guess we could go to the UK as a vacation and play a couple of shows on the side. The bassist plays upright, though. He'd need to get an extra seat (or two) for his bass.

@Jana - We hooked up two pencil condensers to the combi inputs on the H4n. Mandolin and Fiddle were mic'ed from those. Those two players also do lead vocals.

I did an 80hz highpass on the rhythm section via the H4n (which I am regretting now), but that seemed to help with overall levels from the built-in mic. My basement is very small and there are no diffusers so upright bass gets boomy. Lots of standing waves.

Aside from that, I did mix volume and pan values in protools on the 2 condenser tracks. When you record in 4 channel mode, the H4n produces 2 stereo tracks. If you're using two external mics you can split the Line-in track to 2 mono tracks and treat them like individually mic'ed players (which they were).

P.S. Thanks for the compliments!