New Song, Need Feedback

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Hey guys, I have been playing guitar for about ten years and just in the last couple months got into recording. I use Garageband, Podfarm, and a Line 6 Toneport. I have been spending alot of time lately reading about recording and mixing techniques and I've been recording alot of covers lately just to get comfortable with the software and techniques.

Anyway, here is one I spent about 3-4 full days on. Let me know what you think and what I could fix/change if necessary

(I did NOT make 5 posts JUST so I could post this. I will definitely be sticking around:D)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21989218/Simple Design.m4a
 
i dunno if you double tracked the guitars, if you didn't then i'd advise you too as the guitars sound thin at the moment. Nice tone maybe roll off the gain a tad as the guitars sound clearly emulated rather than mic'd from an amp. cool song. maybe raise the snare volume slightly too.
 
phlopip said:
i dunno if you double tracked the guitars, if you didn't then i'd advise you too as the guitars sound thin at the moment. Nice tone maybe roll off the gain a tad as the guitars sound clearly emulated rather than mic'd from an amp. cool song. maybe raise the snare volume slightly too.
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Sweet, thanks for the advice. I did double track the guitars, so I don't know what to do to get rid of the thin-ness. I also noticed the high gain as well, but that would mean re-recording the whole song :(. But I will also raise the snare volume, I should've seen that one, but after hearing it a bajillion times, well ya know. Thanks
 
perhaps just panning the guitars a little further apart may give it more thickness and space.
 
I'd retrack the guitars with less distortion, doubled and panned and see if that gets a better tone. bass is a little up front too. I'd DI the bass and get rid of some of the tone on it.
 
I hate Apple and anything to do with Quicktime - upload it somewhere else please....
 
My advice:

1. Pan the guitars ALL THE WAY L and R.
2. Use a different setting in podfarm. Also bypass cab modeling and use impulses. A free vst plugin for loading impulses is voxengo's boogex. Go to guitarampmodeling.com for lots of free impulses.
3. What are you using for drums? I'm guessing they are midi and for that they sound ok, but the kick is way too hi end click sounding. Should have more 3khzish and less around 10khz if you boosted up there I'm guessing.
4. Repost with these changes.
 
Tune sounds pretty good.
There was a coupla seconds of lead guitar towards the end, the playing didn't convince me much, I would drop that. Guitars didn't sound too bad, pan them all the way out and make space in the middle. Drums sounded OK to me, but I'm not a drummer, so....
Add a voice.
 
ido1957 said:
I hate Apple and anything to do with Quicktime - upload it somewhere else please....
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Oh ok, because that is totally relevant. Not. I thought we were supposed to be about the music. I guess some people care more about the childish Mac vs. Pc war.

Thanks for the advice everyone else
 
What's it meant to end up as? Instrumental or song? Lots of ideas in there. I didn't think the guitars were thin, but I'd also get them out a bit wider...

The drums are the bit I'd be working on... seem a bit too robotic and obviously MIDI... agree that the kick lacks something too.

Otherwise good stuff ChickenMaster... :D
 
Armistice said:
What's it meant to end up as? Instrumental or song? Lots of ideas in there. I didn't think the guitars were thin, but I'd also get them out a bit wider...

The drums are the bit I'd be working on... seem a bit too robotic and obviously MIDI... agree that the kick lacks something too.

Otherwise good stuff ChickenMaster... :D
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Haha thanks, basically, I have a youtube channel where I do guitar tutorials and the occasional cover song. This is a cover song for the channel. I'm just recording a bunch of covers until I get more familiar with recording and stuff so that my original music won't sound like ass right off the bat
 
Hey so I think this all sounds pretty good. As most of said just widen out the guitars a bit which you can easily do with some fine tuning EQ'ing (a nice mid sweep will tell you what the guitars are really pushing, and what they're lacking) and a little extra pan.

Also the drums are obviously MIdI and therefore very compressed sounding. Not much to do about that.
 
SeekingTheTruth said:
Hey so I think this all sounds pretty good. As most of said just widen out the guitars

Also the drums are obviously MIdI and therefore very compressed sounding. Not much to do about that.
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So what is it about the drums that make it obvious? I don't think I compressed them too much. I thought they sounded kinda realistic. Maybe I should add in more of the room mic?
 
That sounds very cool to me, but then I wouldn't be listening for any nuances or faults as I don't have experience with guitar recording, but as a listener it's very impressive. Though I agree now that it was mentioned above, panning will help boost the stereo field.

PS.. love the way this opened up in Dropbox?? how did you do that. I just downloaded dropbox but still figuring out how it works.
 
The cymbals might be a tad over conpressed an I think that might be it. Definitely boost up
The room mix and it l'll be great. Post a new one!
 
Carla_Anne said:
That sounds very cool to me, but then I wouldn't be listening for any nuances or faults as I don't have experience with guitar recording, but as a listener it's very impressive. Though I agree now that it was mentioned above, panning will help boost the stereo field.

PS.. love the way this opened up in Dropbox?? how did you do that. I just downloaded dropbox but still figuring out how it works.
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After you upload a file to drop box, you can move it to your public folder. Then there should be a drop down menu somewhere where you can select "copy public link". That's how I did it. It works for letting other people download it too.

SeekingTheTruth said:
The cymbals might be a tad over conpressed an I think that might be it. Definitely boost up
The room mix and it l'll be great. Post a new one!
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I think I just noticed that as well. The cymbals don't seem to have a very defined attack. My band and I are working on a new one now. It's alot slower with a "sad" feel to it. I will post when it's done
 
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