road to hell

[dwardzala]

Thank you for your coments,
dwardzala.
No I don't have a pop shield, by vox, do you mean voice ?, if so I am not yet at peace with recording my voice, when I play live it is much easier to sing out loud, but at home I feel nervous so I think that I'm trying to hide my voice.
I worked in a recording studio for around three years as a guitarist, but never when behind the glass to see the mixing, now I wish I had taken more of a interest in it.

Facemask93.
I recorded the song with a lot of distortion, and cleaned it up in the mix, maybe I should have gone further.

Yeah, vox = vocals

You can make your vocals sound better with a bit of compression and some reverb.  Also, it does take some time to get used to listening to your recorded voice - its sounds a lot different than your in head.

Thank you both for you interest
TonyBlue

[Glenn Mitchell]

Try using the limiter FX (04) during the take if you are having problems with the odd peak.
You can always bounce the track and add other fx after (reverb, delay etc) Once they are recorded you can't take them out so recording "dry" is a good idea too.

[tonyblue]

This is the point where I must admit that I don't really understand what I am doing,  up to now I have only played music, so I will tell you what I did.

1. the Boss only has 4 tracks to use, I put a rythem track onto track 1, I then add the lead guitar to track 2, this leaves tracks 3-4 free for vocals.

2. I use a Belinger mixer with all the setting mid way to record the vocals.

So is there a way that I could use more than 4 tracks, to allow me to put a base track into the mix.

Distortion I can alter on the belinger.

Try using the limiter FX (04) during the take if you are having problems with the odd peak.
You can always bounce the track and add other fx after (reverb, delay etc) Once they are recorded you can't take them out so recording "dry" is a good idea too.

I don't understand any of this, so you can see that I need a lot of help.
but thank you all for your input, I really do value it

TonyBlue

[Satchwood]

Sounds really good TonyBlue !!!  Great first post!!!

If you want to add bass, just bounce your 4 existing tracks down to stereo tracks 12V2 by pressing Exit & Utility simultaneously (defaults, I believe, to tracks 12V2); so then just press record and play.  Now you have tracks 3 & 4 on V2 open for recording bass, etc (make sure that you switch to track V2 on each of the 4 track buttons before recording your bass track/s and make sure that your out of bounce mode before recording again).  

You can potentially use up all 32 virtual tracks this way, by bouncing to the next set of stereo tracks (ie. 12V3) and so on, up to V8...

[Glenn Mitchell]

Yes bouncing is a wonderful concept that frees up tracks but be advised..make sure
1.the mix (# of tracks, panning, volumes, FX, mistakes, etc) are the way you want and
2.keep the original tracks because tracks that are bounced (blended) are fixed. You might want to remix in future and you sometimes have to go right back to the originals.
3. start taking notes about what you do and your settings. (There is a sheet in the manual and several other versions here online).

[tonyblue]

Thank you, I did not know that you could do that, I will give a try.
TonyBlue