Why Do Your Recordings Sound Like Ass

This is an absolutely excellent thread over on the Cockos forums with tons of exceptional advice on how to improve the general quality of your recordings. There are also PDFs available to download, with the content from the thread. I was checking out the "few tips on making your recordings sound better" thread here and was reminded of it. It's very in-depth and I'm certain everyone who is making music can benefit from a read-through.

Hope it is helpful!

Plus with a title like that how can you NOT love the article! :P

I know threads like the linked one from the (german) music forums I'm in, and the main answer is (as always): practice. You have to learn recording (and mixing and all the stuff), and it might take quite some time until you're good enough, but imho it's worth the effort :D