Here’s some punk rock for you from my band Classic You! The song is called Brighter Day and we recorded it with Ardour back in February in our rehearsal room after having too many beers. So don’t expect a super tight performance. But it sure was fun recording this ditty.
Recorded vocals at home in the attic. Processed the drums quite a bit. I only used 4 mics to record them so had to work a bit on the toms and I MIDI triggered the snare and kick to be able to blend them with some samples. Mixing was done with Ardour too and only FOSS plugins were used.
https://downloads.autostatic.com/music/classic_you/classic_you-brighter_day_(demo).flac
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Ay this is dead good, Jeremy 
Very catchy and energetic and surprisingly tight given the beer count situation. Do yous have any more recordings anywhere?
I’ll always have a soft spot for garage rock / old skool DIY type recordings so the aesthetic here is right up my street. You’ve done dead well blending the samples in to the overall drum sound and it all gels together brilliantly.
The guitars sound ace too by the way and I like that they’re not very widely placed in the mix. What’s the gear there if you don’t mind me asking?
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Thanks!! We have more recordings on the common streaming platforms but those were recorded with Reaper or Cubase by a friend of ours. And personally I’m not very happy with those recordings (way too much plugins on those). But from this specific rehearsal session I have one more song, I will share it also after I made the last tweaks.
And also thanks for your comment about the guitars. We have two guitarists that play on the following gear:
- Fender Telecaster HH 2015 model over an Orange TH100 with Orange cab (Celestion V30s).
- Schecter Tempest Custom with a swapped neck pick-up, also a Seymour Duncan but not sure anymore which model. And that over a Kool & Elfring Straight 8 (a Dutch boutique Plexi clone) with I think a Harley Benton cab with Celestion V30s. Could also be a Mesa Boogie cab with V30s.
These were recorded with two SM57s, one on both cabs. I doubled both the guitars, fixed the phasing issues and spread them a little. Sounds pretty solid already I think.
Excellent, thanks for the details, I do really like the guitar sound 
Got me looking at plexi style pedals now…!
Were the drums jost OHs, kick and snare? (Plus MIDI triggers of course). It’s probably my favourite way to mic a kit because it gives enough flexibility for levels and mixing tricks while also leaving you forced to work with the room sound and playing imperfections.
I found you on Bandcamp and can hear what you mean - they’re very clean and ‘smooth’ (and well-recorded / mixed, absolutely) whereas I reckon a more aggressive and ‘raw’ sound would serve the songs better. But that’s probably more to do with my own tastes rather than any objective reasoning etc.
“Merchandise” is a banver by the way…!
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You’re welcome! The solo guitar is the Tele with the Orange, the more gritty rhythm guitar is the Schecter with the Plexi.
Yes, exactly that. It’s also the limitations of my recording array (only 8 ins) and mic array (I don’t have a mic set to mic the complete kit). But I’ve just extended the recording array with an extra ADAT device and I’m looking into extending my mic collection too. But so far I get listenable results out of this set up which is actually quite gratifying indeed.
Oh great! Yes, it’s a matter of taste, definitely. Those recordings, and also the whole production were done by Perimeter Audio, a small home/mobile studio run by a friend of ours: Opname studio | Perimeter audio
Thanks! It’s a favorite. Heavily inspired lyrics wise by the song of the same name by Fugazi.