I recently did a demo for a Celtic/Classical style trio in my project studio I built in August.
Instruments are Harp, Flute and Fiddle
Tracked and mixed on a Korg D3200
Mastered with Cooledit and Soundforge
The band was very happy with the results of the demo, but as you all know us engineers are always looking to up our game.
Any critiques, or help would be greatly appreciated, as I am doing a few bands for free until I get my technique down and lean my gear before I start charging.
The high end is slightly on the harsh sounding side ... most likely because the arrangement (the instrument ranges) are all in the upper registers.
There's a LOT of energy present in the high mids.
Some elements are more offending than others -- for instance, the string catches more bite than the harp ... and the flute falls somewhere in between ... mostly okay, but catching some grain/bite when pushing the notes hard.
This could be approached/tamed by wholesale rolling down the upper mid range on the individual tracks, but what I'd attempt is to try to dial in a multi-band compressor on the individual tracks and have it kick in when the energy in that freq range overwhelms ... because the bite isn't there all the time ... it's there in the swells -- when the instrumentalist pushes volume during emphasis.
All in all, this is excellent ... great content and performance and balance to the mix, but the aforementioned was something I noticed ... and yes, it's picky.
Sounds good to me.
On the business side, I think you could start charging right away, your quality justifies it.
If you are worried about learning your gear before you charge you could always stop the clock when you have to break out a manual or figure something out. As long as your honest up front, the bands probably won't mind.
I started charging on day 1 because I knew I needed to raise money for more gear ( sure it was only $10 hr. but you gotta start somewhere)
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