Dirty producers: Song/remix compilation

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by holden

If you saw my bedroom set-up, you'd laugh!
A laptop, a desktop comp, a couple mics, guitars and amps. Nothing fancy at all, and i'm sorry the track suffers from lower quality production values than most of these others.

nothing wrong with that setup man and no need to apologise for the production! I'd actually think that kind of setup is pretty much what most people here are using.
I believe one can still get great production values on just a computer and some plugins, or other minimal setups (and a computer can really be as minimal or maximal as you want, it all depends on what software you use)
I can also totally understand if you are consciously aiming for a distorted/rough kind of sound. Just make sure you take care when recording digitally, you cannot/shouldn't go over 0dB or "in the red". On an analog mixer you may get some nice warm overdrive by doing this, but in the digital world you're just losing data and get nasty sounding distortion.
Anyway, just kick me if you think I'm trying to be mr know-it-all but I think if you take a bit more care with your levels you could get a much better sounding result from a technical standpoint.
if in the end you think you're recording isn't loud enough, you can always use a limiter or preferable a multiband compressor to pump it up a bit without clipping the output.