Punk rock / garage bands?

Check out reaper radio, there are quite a few. My background is hardcore. I did some of the Hillbilly Devilspeak stuff with early versions of reaper.

Looking.....not quite so hardcore, but one of my prouder moments Calabrese

I'd really like to hear some punk/hardcore/garage stuff using Reaper as a DAW. punk/hardcore (80s): garage (90s): punk (70s/80s): hardcore (current): punk (current): It seems hard enough to find anyone on public forums like this one that care about any this music, so finding someone who uses Reaper and records bands of these styles is even harder for tips and tricks to achieve the right sound.

Not as straight up hardcore as I'd like to find but the elements are certainly there In hardcore, attitude trumps ANY gear, technique, money, brands, whatever. If the attitutde isnt there in the first place it wont matter what you use to record it

It depends how live you want the recording to be. (most "live sounding" tracks are anything but, even in this genre) The negatives of bleed are that any mistakes made into a mic that will be used on the final will still be there to some degree or another in the end. Tuning will be an issue here too. It really ALL comes down to the drummer. If he can play with the volumes he MEANS to play while he is playing (no small feat) and not just tip tap turkey gobbling flim flams all over, and he and everyone else knows where the "1" is to come back after the unavoidable fills then you have a chance bleed or no bleed. If this isnt the case, and you want it to sound good, then work with the band ahead of time to make sure everyone can play their parts to a click, without eye contact (which is too late anyhow) If there are a lot of tempo changes which require band interaction, then just get the minimum needed players to play together. Most preconcieved notions and prejudices and following any imaginary punk rock rulebook need to go out the window before you begin. I don't think Crass ever met ANY item that they didnt consider a real instrument, from washing machines, to tape recorders to silverware. The rulebook these nofx/blink182/brittney spears type "punk rockers" today are running with are so restrictive as to be the antithesis of free expression that punk is really about

I understand the free expression of punk rock. Up until recently I've only recorded stuff using 4 track and 8 track tape units but they're coming increasing more expensive to fix and find parts for, etc. So now I turn to digital to make it easier and more cost effective because I know good fast punk hardcore recordings can come out of it. I guess it's just something I need to spend time with before I can figure it all out. As far as fuckups go, well, it seems like I may be the only one who cares enough to do take after take until its right, when most folks are just fine with whatever.

And for real giggles, here's my hardcore band back in the 80's, sneaking into Rendezvouz recorders after hours to record anything. We were big Dayglo Abortions, SOD and meatmen fans at the time, though crass, suicidal, NOTA and AOD were big influences too

Beta 52 is my kick and tom's mic of choice usually. One thing to be especially aware of is that the 52'a diaphragm does NOT like being paralel with the resonating surface. You learn that real quick if you put it in the airhole parallel with the head, but even just pointing at the head will do it. If you record and see a LOT of excursion during one polarity of the waveform but very little on the other, this is probably the problem