It's a song, not a book.
Good thing, too, as I am illiterate.
Greg_L said:
When you cram that much lyrical content into a simple repetitive song, it makes it seem long. This song is only 3 minutes long, but by minute 2 I was ready for it to end. I got it already. Your 3 minute song seemed like it was 6 minutes long because it's just an endless barrage of words that pretty much just say the same things over and over. Funny, clever, yes. Just too much though IMO.
Well, he killed 2 people. It generally takes me about a minute and a half per victim. I'll grab a calculator later and see if I got that right.
Greg_L said:
Anyone [words stricken] deserves to be offended.
We all got it coming, don't we?
Greg_L said:
The mix....I guess you're showing some improvement. You still have a lot of boxiness in the drums. Boxiness everywhere. It's like everything is recorded in the same box. I have to assume your monitoring environment is bad, or you're doing headphone mixes with junk headphones. If you're wanting garagey old school cassette tape demo quality, then you got it. And there's something to be said for that. Some of the best stuff ever is so-so quality. If you're looking for a more "pro" - I hate that word but it applies here - commercial sound then you got a ways to go. I think you're definitely on the right track though. Your drumming needs to get better. I know you're new and learning and stuff, but I'm telling you dude, from a listening perspective, trainwreck fills and timing flubs make things sound way worse than a mediocre mix. Like that intro drum thing, WTF is that? It sounds bad and adds nothing to the song. Just let the song blast off.
You didn't think that "intro" was awesome?
I will never intentionally record in poor quality. I'm looking for "pro". That said, I have a $500 recorder/mixer, a large basement with shit all over the place in which to record drums, $15 sony earbuds with which I do mixing, and I don't know what a monitoring environment is (in an audio recording context). This sounded great on my earbuds/mp3 player. I just put it on my stereo, and now I know what "boxiness" is. I'm going to remix it, it sounded horrible. I always put reverb on my toms, and a little on the snare and kick. I'm going to ditch it all and see if it helps. Any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong that it has so little definition? Should I be cutting out frequencies on the bass guitar or anything like that? I cut out a shitload at 250 on my kick drum. Hopefully not all the boxiness is related to the recording process and I can salvage something by turning some knobs on the mixer.
I do realize that using earbuds to mix is moronic, though. You use good headphones, I guess? Can you recommend some? That's something I'd get immediately.
My drumming is getting better somehow, even though I barely get to play. You must have forgotten how bad I WAS. How bad I AM, believe it or not, is an improvement.
I read your "drumming for dummies" guide you have on this site a while ago and one thing I remember specifically is how you said to know what the hell you're going to play before you play it. That's not something anyone should need to be told, but I guess I did, because I did it for the first time a couple weeks ago and it helped quite a bit. I'm making it a habit.
What do you think of that snare sound? I think it's too "fat", if that's the right word. It sounds like I'm smashing something, but it decays almost immediately. I have zero sympathetic buzz from the toms (except a tiny bit on one of them), and I always had a shitload before I switched the snare wire from a 30 to a 20 last weekend, in spite of tuning. I have the wire and heads tight as hell. I guess it's the head I have on?