My first track recording - Get The Funk Out

Richardrichard · December 2020

I’ve recently started playing with recording for the first time since buying a Headrush and this is the first full song over a backing track I’ve recorded. Also got into Extreme recently so I’ve been working on this song for a couple of weeks. Neither the playing nor the mix are perfect but nonetheless I’m keen to share. Used the demo of reaper to record, backing track grabbed from YouTube.

https://www.soundcloud.com/rsbmw/get-the-funk-out

Feedback appreciated, particularly tips on how to make the guitar track feel more part of the song!

merlin · December 2020

Sounds great. Dare I suggest that guitar solos are cool with that amount of gain, but if you want it to sound funky.....then you need a much cleaner guitar sound, and more choppy rhythmically, otherwise it's rock. Just my tuppence.

Richardrichard · December 2020

Cheers mate, fair comment but I’m recreating the track here, or at least trying to, and Nuno doesn’t have a clean tone!

spark240 · December 2020

So I ran it alongside the original,..firstly the guitars are almost def double tracked, you should do this and pan them as it would instantly live up the sound...then I think your sound needs to be little brighter, its lacking some bite, then sit them back in the mix a little.

Nice playing though....Id def cock that up ;-)

Richardrichard · December 2020

Nice one.

I thought I had done the double track thing, the headrush outputs stereo so I'm capturing left and right to separate tracks. When I duplicated them I then got the pans backwards so I just ended up with both tracks going to both sides.

Anyway, I re recorded the lot and I think this is much improved! I did mess up the timing of one of the first riffs but I can't be bothered to re-record it now!

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