Critique my Sonic Landscape!

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Greetings Everybody!

First time poster here.

Today I recorded a mix. If you could see my setup youd probably laugh.

Ill let you guys know I am the Front of House engineer at a large church here in portland. I'm also a guitar player at another church and just an audiophile in general. Id say I know my way around frequencies well enough so feel free to be as technological as possible if you so choose to have a listen to my mix.

Its all guitar parts including bass guitar. No drums or vocals. It's only a sample so its a minute long and kinda cuts out at the end. Let me explain to you my setup. Like I said its all guitar. So what I did was I had my guitar out to my Line6 POD HD500 which I used as both a preamp and an interface, then usb right into the front of my computer. I used a very low end program on my computer to record. Really I only needed something so I can record. I don't want to tell you what it is yet because if you knew what it was it might sway your judgement and we might have a placebo effect.

Anyways its a very open and airy, sonic landscape thing.
Enough talk have a listen!
 

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I'm a newbie so I can't really give you the technical feedback you're looking for...
I just wanted to say it sounds terrific to me, the guitar parts seem to blend together but I can still hear everything that's going on, and I enjoyed listening.
 
Cool, the beginning reminds me of Steven Wilson's "Veneno Para Las Hadas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxmlhcl4ug

No comments on the mix. Not a ton of things going on but what's there is captured well. Usually the challenges come with adding drums, vocals, etc and getting a good balance between everything.
 
Really enjoyed the sounds - you seem to have almost an endless reverb thing going on - makes it seem like you're playing a synth in the background. Are you going to continue with this song - is there more?
 
Ive got alot of comments saying people are hearing a synth. Its actually not a synth. Its Volume swells on the guitar with some delay, quite a bit of reverb, and some vibrato to get some ambient spaciness going on.

There is going to be more in the future. I realised my keyboard (not heard in this song) has drum samples on it. So I can use the drum patches on my keyboard out the phone output into my pod hd500 preamp into my DAW. Itll probably sound weird playing drums on a keyboard, but you gotta do what ya gotta do. Cant wait to try it.

I'm also going to steal a mic and a DI box from church. Itll go mik out into DI box into guitar imput on the pod and into the computer. Again, gotta do what you gotta do.
 
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