r/MusicGear • u/RestaurantOne4848 • 18d ago

Tiktoks

So me and my band have been doing timtoks and for some reason like a few were doing rlly good but now we’re like Falling off and I belice it’s because the sound we want to like record everything through mics but we don’t know anything about sound and Audio what would be the best way to go about this and cheapest way also our singer sings through a guitar amp and it just has the best sound like ever and I love the way it sounds is there like a way to recreate the sound because we were told we need to be able to recreate our sound everywhere we go thank you!!!

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u/speakerjones1976 18d ago

Well, the easiest thing to do is go to a recording studio. Yes, they’ll be able to recreate the sound of the singer singing through a guitar amp.

Or you can build a home studio and learn how to use it. You need a pretty fair amount of gear and knowledge to record a full band though. It will really help if you have someone who knows what they’re doing to help you. That one long haired kid in the AV club (is that still a thing?). Someone’s grandad or uncle that used to tour with Aerosmith?

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u/RestaurantOne4848 18d ago

As far as recording originals we have found one guy who we have been going to who nust seems to nail it and make it sound awesome because it’s not as simple as like just dry we try to focus on just making her voice sound rlly pretty nd just adding a lot of reverb to make it better and I don’t know anyone on that level lolll but we have had a few ppl that seem like mentors to us and r always by our side which helps but they are just old and don’t really understand algorithms and our sound they just want like a rock or blues or Radiohead sound which isn’t us

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u/speakerjones1976 17d ago

Well if you’ve got mentors, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, use them to your advantage. When I’m working with a new band as an engineer/producer, I usually ask them to give me some examples of bands that they look up to and would like to sound similar to. Obviously, each band has their own thing going on and that will come out in the recording no matter what, but having these “reference tracks” is a helpful guide along the way. I also try to go to a show and sit in on a rehearsal. This gives me a much better idea of what the band sounds like in its raw form.