My question to you guys: Should I dump the recording studio I use and go to another one?
The situation - I made a house beat (
reason 5) and I rap on top of it. I did a test-record with my $100 mic at home and the mix came out very good and was ready to hit a professional studio for the first times. I found a studio near me in LA (won't give the name) that has a nice website, many clients listed and such, very professional place, nice people. I booked 2 hours recording time in their more expensive room which is $75 an hour including engineer. I tracked out my beat, all effects dry, 24-bit .wav files and took it to the studio, in hopes of their software (pro tools HD) having better quality reverb, eq and such compared to the reverb and EQ in Reason. Engineer was a very cool, young guy around my age which apparently was good with house/hip hop beats. He was pro tools savvy and knew what he was doing judging by the speed of his work. The recording came out perfect with their custom $1k mic. After recording, I sat with the engineer and let him do his work. He gave his input on the track and did a couple of creative things. In the studio, the recording sounded great, they gave me only the final .mp3 and I left happy. However, I took it to my car and played the song via USB plugged into my car stereo. It sounded like shit, and the recording I did at home sounded 100% better than the one the engineer gave me. Bass was
extremely muddy and loud, synth chords had no EQ or reverb, there was almost no reverb and eq....