First real recording...

[MTLasater]

My band recorded five songs back in a small studio in late July, and while we haven't gotten all the recordings back yet, the guy who recorded us put one of the songs he'd finished mastering on his studio's Myspace page.  We're thinking of making an EP out of the recordings, and I'm curious to hear if y'all think that's worth doing.  The song is called "Peace Be With You."

www.myspace.com/handsewn

[ugly casanova]

it sounds okay to me but i don't like how the guitar sounds. it sounds like it's going straight into the mixer 
sorry for my rough critics 

[Pingu]

I really like "Cumulus", though it could use a bit more reverb.

[MTLasater]

Cumulus isn't one of ours.  And unfortunately we didn't have a lot of money to spend on a real studio.  I didn't even realize this at the time, but the guy recording us is still in high school.  :-\

Do you think mastering at a different studio might help?  I don't know if there's even a point to that.  The main point of the recordings was to have something to put on our Myspace page to show who we really are (our old stuff on there was just the other guitarist and I dicking around with banjos and open fire hydrants.) 

[MTLasater]

Also, thanks for the feedback.  You can't really get accurate feedback from your friends, since they're, you know, your friends.  haha

[ugly casanova]

okay, so you mean we should look at it as a demo. 

i think the problem is just the guitar on the left speaker. maybe it helps if you tell us which guitar and amp you used.

the mix in general is okay, so is the mastering. i think the problem is just the amp setting or the guitar because the one on the intro sounds just too thin and too fuzzy

[MTLasater]

We used my white Fender Toronado, for that part at least, going through a Boss multi-effects pedal, and into a Fender Deluxe Reverb (I think) from the 1960s.  As much as Crate amps don't compare to a good vintage Fender, I'd played that song on my Crate a million times, and so when the guy recording us wanted me to use my lead guitarist's vintage Fender, I wasn't really prepared.

As for the fuzziness, it's probably just a bad choice of distortion on the Boss pedal.  Again, my Crate would have made me a lot happier in this case.

[ugly casanova]

i guess you used the bridge pu, right? i think that would explain it somehow, because they tend to overdrive easier and sound thinner. next time you should try the neck pickup and take some time 

[MTLasater]

Actually, if I recall correctly, I used the neck pickup.  It's strange...on this particular guitar, the neck and bridge are opposite of what they normally seem to be, in terms of tone and such.

[MTLasater]

I'm really starting to lean toward getting a Jaguar.  Humbuckers are great in some applications, but a lot of my band's material calls for something more along the single-coil lines, this case included, I think.

[idiotbear]

I'm really starting to lean toward getting a Jaguar.

Sport of kings. Get one, now.