Bridge to the Sun

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Excellent work, the whole song is an enjoyable listen. It is much better quality than many well-known songs that have made their performers and producers rich. But we are savage here and live by the Japanese proverb, "The nail that sticks out gets hammered". To this end, there is still a touch of distortion in the second clean guitar, right where it starts and the rest of the second clean guitar soiunds like it is on the verge of breaking into distortion. Thats picky but its still feedback for you. Its a nail that sticks out. You can see the distortion in a waveform view. If that sounds overanalytical, it was audible before it was visible. I could hear what I went looking for in the waveform. In my opinion (opinions being neither right nor wrong) the reverb on the guitar intro is good but could be reduced by 20% or so. Its just a little overdone. Finally, in the intro, I would still cut some of the low end and apply some compression to even out the level variations that come from being played by a human being. Thats really nasty but when you are competing against so many synthetic instruments, you have to do what you can to sound at the very least, just as good.
 
GuitarLegend said:
Excellent work, the whole song is an enjoyable listen. It is much better quality than many well-known songs that have made their performers and producers rich. But we are savage here and live by the Japanese proverb, "The nail that sticks out gets hammered". To this end, there is still a touch of distortion in the second clean guitar, right where it starts and the rest of the second clean guitar soiunds like it is on the verge of breaking into distortion. Thats picky but its still feedback for you. Its a nail that sticks out. You can see the distortion in a waveform view. If that sounds overanalytical, it was audible before it was visible. I could hear what I went looking for in the waveform. In my opinion (opinions being neither right nor wrong) the reverb on the guitar intro is good but could be reduced by 20% or so. Its just a little overdone. Finally, in the intro, I would still cut some of the low end and apply some compression to even out the level variations that come from being played by a human being. Thats really nasty but when you are competing against so many synthetic instruments, you have to do what you can to sound at the very least, just as good.
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Well then, I guess there's only one way to solve that problem, namly I'll have to replay it again. There is a touch of disturtion in the basic amp setting of that clean guitar, because that's what I was going for. I'll check that reverb again, too. Thanx GL!
 
Thanx Ray!
The first one sounded really whimpy, with no bottom, because I hit the strings close to the bridge with my pick (sorry, not a finger player....!).
 
Joe, Steve played some nice lines. I was wondering, whilst listening whether you should pan the guitars away from each other and bring them together slowly for the last sustained note.
I only suggest the separation because I tried to listen to both closely and it was difficult for my little brain.
Terrific work - terrific song!
 
rayc said:
Joe, Steve played some nice lines. I was wondering, whilst listening whether you should pan the guitars away from each other and bring them together slowly for the last sustained note.
I only suggest the separation because I tried to listen to both closely and it was difficult for my little brain.
Terrific work - terrific song!
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Thanx Ray!
Not a bad idea, they're already panned about 75% in opposite ways, maybe with some more panning they might sound better.
 
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