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

Compression and side chaining effects.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

would you mind explaining what side chaining effects are?

ive messed around with DAWS and different kind of mics for a while but also mess up the mixing part. i really like messing with mic positions and seeing how that affects the sound and volume of sound.

Basically it's using a another track/input/whatever to trigger an effect used on a track, for example if you sidechain compression a guitar track to the drums every time the drums hit a big beat the guitar will be compressed down. It's how they achieve such ear breaking volume level while not having the compression sounding too obvious.

ah gotcha. damn that sounds super useful. time to figure out how to do that

Is there a such thing as a raw recording so good that it doesn't need any post-production?

11/22

Me asking ruins the joke, but you mean the Zapruder tape?

oh no friendo

i meant this

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That really does sound good. Is that yours? But hilarious coincidence that I googled "11/22" and got 11/22/63 --Kennedy's assassination date

haha yea i don't blame you for the confusion.

butg no thats not me, i wish. a dude named John Galm. Sang for a band called Snowing.

I feel like those songs are complemented by the rough, lo-fi aspect of it. gives it a warm sound.

If you have a small amp and live where you can't make a lot of noise you can make your amp sound bigger you take a cardboard box and cut a hole in the center of the bottom just big enough to thread the mic cable through, get it situated so that the mic is ok, you might have to get something for it to sit on. Next take the amp and place it against the opening of the box, right up against it so that it covers it. You'll have to adjust levels and shit but it should give you a bigger sound.

REFERENCE MIXES. Put tracks you fucking love how they sound and that you know sound good everywhere, so you know how a proffesional mix sounds in your system.

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In my opinion at least