Ok, this thread was really helpful to me. I got some great mix suggestions out of it that immediately improbed the song. Thanks everyone for your help.
Middleman - Thanks for checking out the remix Middleman. Actually there are some ultra low 'electronic' tom hits i put in there intentionally. I coincided them on the keyboard to match some bass hits to give me weird 'ultra-hits'. It's intentional and not meant to sound realistic in any sense of the word. In terms of fills i agree perhaps i could cook up something more intricate.
skids - No i'm gonna keep on the programming. That's how i did the last two songs, i just played along. Performance wise I'm not discontent with it at all, i actually like it but i guess I may have to get a bit more elaborate to satisfy a greater number of listeners. To me they've been vast improvements over the earlier songs in which i just looped everything.
I went out to grab the real hi-hat. A few days after i had been recording real cymbals in my room they were gone! They belong to my roomies boyfriend and I think she thought I was going to start taking a regular interest in them and she decided to head me off at the pass and get rid of them. Damn!
Oh well, the peacefulness of everyone else in the building is at stake i guess.
Sluice - DammniT, i'm checkin out B-1's and then i read that you're going to be selling yours. I have been going in circles in the microphone forums, apparently any microphone is either perfect or absolute crap for your needs depending upon who you decide to listen to. I really would like a flat-response mic. That way i don't get my eq habits all goofily out of whack.
The cymbal performance i like, especially leading into the choruses when i imagine the guy whackin em harder and harder, but if the top end is sizzly then i probably sonically couldn't detect it. I'll go back and maybe slice a shade off the top end eq-wise, but that's probably inaudible to me so no real way of knowing if i get it or not. Thanks for the kind words.
Pedarest - Pick up the Teelefoonbot i'm trying to call u. Uhm.. "Hello Yarko? Hi thanks you for how u say... uhhh leesten to song my music ya i say thank you Yankees are big fun baseball america. I play... how you say... Na guitarye"
boydrj - Thanks very much Rx, themz very nice things to say. About the sound of the kit, i had some reverb setting that made it seem huge. I guess I am just perhaps a bit afraid of going overboard with it. I'm going lite and then expanding from there.
Hey is your name related to basketball?
It would take me too long especially to get a good take and my time is a little too tight right now. I say keep at it because your stuff is too good to have one part of the song detract IMO.
But it only gets better.
