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Originally Posted by Will Kirk
Having not read any comments other than the OP's post, this is my take on it.
The playing is fine, you have good technique
I honestly prefer the original recording rather than the mastered one. The volume level on the original could be a bit hotter, but it has much more dynamics and a much more pleasant tone to it, although there's something odd going on with your microhpones, how close together were they when you recorded? Sounds like there might be some phase cancellation going on.
Also, the compression seems a bit overdone to my ears, remember that basically what compression does is it makes your recordings a consistent volume and dynamics level. Basically it makes your high db points quieter and your quiet db points louder, equalizing it in a way. There's a bit more to it than that. But it seems like either your effects are causing alot of background hiss, or the compression is causing it as well, it might be both.
Were you running the effects post or pre in your mix? If you're running them as a pre sometimes it can cause extra noise and hiss.
Also, it seems like the mastered recording is a tad thin sounding, and my ears keep hearing a spike in the eq around 6k hz, I don't have a spectrum analyzer so I could just be hearing things or some by-product of the compression.
Also, where were your microphones positioned in front of the guitar for the recording? It sounds like you were going for an X Y pattern but I keep hearing this weird sort of "washy" sound in the recording apart from the effects. Might be phase cancellation like I mentioned before if your mics were too close together
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Ah, well, then you kind of missed the answers to most of your questions LOL.
I'm using a Zoom H2, therefore I CANNOT adjust how the mics are oriented, it's an X/Y pattern at 90deg, it's sitting about 12" from the 12th fret.
All effects were done in post. In the original recording there is zero compression. The background hiss is just coming from the room, and the low level I recorded at, see future posts for recordings at a hotter level.
As far as phase cancellation, the ENTIRE THREAD has been about phase cancellation so I won't go into that again LOL. I'm wondering if the fact that in the original recording the left channel is about 6db lower than the right causes that, because of the way they are oriented.
This is how the front of the H2 looks:
Hopefully this helps some.