Bedroom Mixers

[Nicholas Barnes]

>Inviting noobs and pros alike
Let's start a thread for basic post-recording protocols. We can help each other turn our instrument, vocal, and MIDI recordings intro amateur gold.
>Stories of trial and error
>Hot tips
>Questions, answers, and moral support

[Brody Rogers]

My (rock) songs sound okay, but what's the main thing keeping them from sounding "produced" like any professional band I listen to?

[Christian Stewart]

Compression and side chaining effects.

[Chase Davis]

I use compression plug-ins and zero effects. Have barely used DAWs for any length of time

[Wyatt Myers]

Hot tip: if the drums aren't tight, the whole recording will suffer

[Ian Robinson]

It's painful but it's the truth.
Shitty guitar recordings with good drums will always sound better than good guitar recordings with shit drums.

[Angel Hughes]

>Nirvana
Kurt was a good player, but it's funny how much the bass and drums held that band together

[Bentley Lopez]

who one man band here? im going to buy a bass guitar and maybe a drum machine to go along with my guitar and keyboard then mash em all together to make beautiful noise

[Lucas Kelly]

A live one man band? Or just in the studio. If you're a decent guitar player, bass is really fun to experiment with

[Juan Watson]

in the bedroom studio. no one around me is interested in making music so i'll just do it myself