Pim!

Hello everyone, First of all, I shall introduce myself. My name is Pim and I'm from the Netherlands, 16 years old. I started drumming when I was six and my addiction to music grew with the years. A year ago I started saving money for recording equipment. After 9 months or so, I thought i had enough equipment to do my first real recording next to my experimenting and stuff. I recorded a demo for my sister who needed a demo-cd. That went ok. Two weeks ago I got a job from a friend of mine. He also needed a demo-cd. This is what this post is about. Since it was my first mixing/mastering process and only one of the first recording processes, I would like some serious feedback on how to improve the sound quality. I will start with a list of equipment: Recorder and mixer - Yamaha AW4416 Mics: Drums - 2 Oktava MC 319 for overheads (large diaphragm) - A AKG D3600 for kick - An Shure SM57Beta for snare Guitar - The 2 Oktava's and the SM57 beta combined, Oktava's in AB stereo setup. Bass - A Sanstech DI Further I have pretty good cables, shockmounts for the oktava's, four stands (one small bassdrum, a medium one for everything and two large ones for the overheads). The mic preamps on the 4416 were used and furtherest no other effect equipment or anything. Now I'll start with a link to three songs that were recorded and mixed. http://www.myspace.com/proudwish (don't mind the sad layout and stuff, just made it this week ). I'd like full feedback from you guys. Everything from comment on my equipment, the recording quality, the mixing etc. I'm doing this so I can learn and get my recordings better. What I'd like to add is that this was recorded and mixed in 16 hours spread over two days (8 hours recording, 8 hours mixing). So, please, burn me down and help me improve my recordings I drummed this myself btw (my dad was doing the recording while I was playing).