Doing some home recording

[lavaxtris]

Hi guys. Just wanted to get some thoughts on a recording I did with my band in our home studio. Everything was recorded "live", all at once.

In the recording, we use a Onyx1640i into a macbook with Cubase installed. We have sm57s on the guitar and vocals, sm58s for the drum overheads and an audix D6 on the kick drum (in a glyn johns 3 mic technique) and another audix D6 for the bass amp.

what I'd like to do is get rid of some of the reverb/echo, and some of the vocal mic bleed. would like some input on how to do that. next time I will use a 4th mic on the snare drum... I think it needs it.

here is the "demo" of our new song:
https://soundcloud.com/joe-studer/the-cave-live

 

[Shinji]

Not sure if you'll have much luck getting rid of reverb. Maybe a phase effect?(don't quote me on that).

However the busy sections sound great, the reverb gives it a real old school sound. A good result for what it is.

I swear by glyn johns, we use 4 mics; beta 52 for the kick, sm57 for the snare and 2 AKG C414XLS condensers for the "overheads'. Does the job nicely as long as the measurements are accurate it work really well.
How many tracks are recorded on cubase, 2? 4? 8? Basically how mixable is it?

 

[M.Mannix3]

I really have no idea how to help you but I just wanted to say that I really dig your band's sound. I wish my band sounded like that haha. Keep it up!

 

[lavaxtris]

thanks M.Mannix3!!!!

and Shinji, its going into 7-8 tracks.... 1 for each mic. but it can go up to 16 inputs, fully mixable.
I think most of my reverb problems have to do with the room sound, but mostly stuff bleeding into the vocal mics. I just don't know how to fix it.

 

[paulears]

Room sound from the open mics - almost certainly vocal and drum o/h. I'd suggest going back through the tracks one by one and identifying those that are contributing sound when they don't need to. Then you can perhaps try gating them. I'd look for any mic that is not close to the source - so drum o/h, any mics on acoustic guitars - that kind of thing. Small room, too many open mics - that's really all it is. Oh, and in a small room, spill and crosstalk from mics close to each other. You need more separation, either by distance or obstacles!