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Hi Joseph, good to see you posting. The only line I have issue with is "Strangers turn she's cornered in". I appreciate that song lyrics have a looser licence than one's normal writing, but I'm wondering if "Strangers turn where she's hemmed in" or similar might work better than cornered with...

Welcome aboard, hope you find the place useful and inspiring. all the best Tim

I thought overall it sounds pretty good, the guitar sounds are good and you have created a pretty convincing audio collage which has a nice presence. For me the the upper mids of the percussion sit back a little too far and sound a little constrained but I don't think the top end of that element...

I look forward to hearing it. The lyrics you have will give a big opportunity to focus on a compelling delivery through the vocal performance. It's the factor with song writing which I think has a massive potential to make it memorable to the listener. Very easy when most of us are tinkering...

Very difficult subject to write in a way that avoids a lot of cliché which basically leaves two options, write what you like and don't give it a thought, then execute it in an individual way. Or strive and find a uniqueness to the lyrical content. This looks like it will work as song, but very...

Sorry to hear about your bike Ray, although always better to bend a bike than its owner, speaking from personal experience of ploughing fields with my knees on a couple of occasions. I'm kinda stumped at the minute, I have a bare bones track with no lyrics and finding them tough to come up with...

You would have probably stood more chance in the MP3 mixing clinic of having the track listened to, all though appreciate your interest here is mastering. Firstly prior to mastering a track you need to get the mix as good as it can be which generally involves some objective listening and gaining...

Mmmm quite an interesting approach toward vocal timing and pitch, kind of reminds me of post copious alcohol consumption exchanges between football fans outside a pub. Certainly a style which will depart from the sterile sameness which abounds in these times. Perhaps get a mix posted in the mp3...

Yes it's far easier to negotiate than my six string, but I'm still glad I got the six string first as it made me work harder gaining some understanding and technique. Like many of us here, I work my nuts off and do extra shifts and make sure my family commitments a served first before shelling...

Also worth bearing in mind that your voice is like any other element of a track it will need to be treated differently for different track environments, so that when recorded and mixed it sits with everything else and sounds like it belongs. All very well crooning into a mic and thinking it...

I've done this on some of my tracks to varying degrees so thought I'd offer my thoughts. Used a vocal processor which gave my vocal a four fold output with each take where I could pan each voice and play around with pitch, vibrato ect. I used up to three tracks and did a take for each singing...

Luke, I thought you'd vanished ;-) the track seemed to tumble down without you being in this part of the forum. I've already commented on a version of this track, but have further suggestions if you intend pursuing the Floyd vibe. You might want to dip into how progressions impart feeling...

Thanks midget and Illsidgus, for listening and replying. I appreciate the feedback, really good to have some responses which focus more on the playing of the track from a listening perspective. I am always grateful for technical tips and critique, but it's also great to read that a track has...

Plenty of people do give a shit, but it can take a little while for a thread to get going here. While you are waiting, have you considered listening to the work of others? You don't need to be an expert to have an opinion of if you like or dislike an aspect of someone else's recording, surely...

Hi, I decided to get a reasonably priced bass as a back up and to give me some options while recording, as the other one I own is totally different. Having liked the look of these a while back and finding them out of stock for ages in the colour option I wanted, I decided to grab one when the...

Good to hear from you Ray, I've not played any Floyd for a long time either, but it hit the spot at the time. I'm looking into working with another musician so have not been recording this week while I contemplate and consider possibilities. That will be someone local to me, so hoping to be...

Hi, I enjoyed the track. Like the previous listener I found areas of the track which sounded like they are going beyond a safe level. I think the drums get a little buried in the busier areas and that maybe looking at levels across the board might be a good place to be working. I thought the...

I've used the MK11 Alesis actives and found them pretty good once the attenuation switches are set up for the room acoustics. You shouldn't be able to wreck speakers with a big amp unless doing something daft like having the amp cranked up when an unexpected peaky signal is generated. That's...

Thanks Mr Clean, I appreciate your taking time to listen and reply. I got into the wall quite a bit when I was less grey than now and it had to played on vinyl, to be fair that album and some of Floyd's earlier work influenced me a lot. Thank you. fat_fleet, Thanks for your detailed listen and...

Thanks Rob, The intro is easily altered lengthwise and that's certainly a consideration at the point where I put the track with others and where and how it sits in a compilation, it can allow me overlap of tracks or can be trimmed, I'm pretty open to altering that. I think the kick in light of...