3 tunes I'm working on

[slkeen]

I posted 3 tunes I'm working on. Still working on drums and percussion parts, but the guitars are close to what I want. Let me know what you think.

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1385&alid=-1

 

[lynx]

Acoustic guitar is nice - you can play!

I'd be careful about your length of the songs though, instrumentals can get real boring in a hurry. No instrumental should more than 3 minutes in my mind.

 

[B.SABBATH]

Listening to 'Nylon Strings' great playing and great breathing.. Maybe you could e.q. a little more of a wamer nylon sound... or maybe that sound will work well once other things are added.. either way I enjoyed listening to it and didnt think it was too long..


I also checked out 'hangin at dawn' and like the first tune, you have to do something about all the heavy breathing.. This one was a bit long..

Checked out 'Sometimes'. These tunes sound more like just playing rather than actual songs, but cool for what they are anyway..

cool..


sam

 

[slkeen]

Thanks, I didn't realize the breathing was so loud !! I added some bass and percussion to Nylon Strings #2, still need to redo the guitars, maybe tomorrow. Check it out, does it sound like this is working?

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1385&alid=-1

 

[Kramer]

Nice playing skleen.Are they recorded direct?

Good stuff man.

 

[slkeen]

Kramer, Thanks for the feedback .The lead guitar is recorded direct off the pickup, the picked guitar is recorded with 2 MXL 603s. The bass is a cheap Squire Bronco short neck recorded direct, the drums are a Yamaha DD55 drum thing recorded direct. I added reverb to everything. I'm still trying to figure out how to record a nylon string - I read somewhere that the pros mic the room, not close micing like with a steel string. Anybody know about this?

 

[TripleM]

Decent song and good playing.

I thought the lead guitar part (the part panned hard right) could maybe have some midrange further taken out and maybe a little boost around 800 hz or so (only a guess of course).

As a nearly 4 and a half minute instrumental, it didn't have enough things going on. You could probably cut some time out and help or add some instrumentation/parts.

You may also want to play around with the bass part to make it a bit more prominent. Of course you wouldn't want it to dominate the guitars, but it might be possible to get a warmer sound if it could be brought up. Caveat - I listened on cheap headphones.