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I'm a newbie. I built a smal DAW a few months ago. I did a bit of reading and experimenting and I have just finished 5 tracks that my band is going to use as a demo. I would like some feedback. Are these OK considiring my limited experience and budget?

http://www.oneofthesedaze.com/music.htm

The tracks were recorded in my basement using a Mackie CFX 12, a CAD Equitec mic, and a Delta 1010 connected to my PC which is running Sonar 1.
 
man, the EngineeroTechHeads can tell you more about your mixes than me . but I was really excited about the sound. You pulled that cover really well with no more time than you`ve put in on it and with limited equipment. I really like comfortably numb, all the instruments abd voices sounded fine to me. The drums were very good, I personally would have liked hearing a fat reverb tail on them, they were a little out front to me, but good. :)
 
comfortably numb...
sounds great the i cant listen real loud at the moment ...but it sounds like pink floyd to me......great singing and guitar playing that lead is fucking great .....


ok way too short....

jamal


a demo for what ??...btw...do you do original music as well??...not that you dont do these covers incredibly well....lol..
 
Tribute Band

I posted the full versions. Hope you have a big pipe! (for your internet connection that is....)

Yep, we were a cover band, but we every time we played a Floyd song, people went nuts and kept asking for more, so we decided, what the hell? and decided to do an all Floyd tribute show.

The recording are just to pass around to bars/clubs/festivals or whatever just to book a few jobs. We are basically just a bunch of old farts with families who love to play on weekends occasionally and don't have any desire to 'make it big'.

I decided to record us in our spare time just for something to keep me busy. I know they aren't perfect. I'm just looking for fresh ears to point out something maybe I could improve on the next recording....if I can talk them into doing another one...

I did appreciate the verb tails on the drums suggestion. I think that might be one of the those things I just couldn't put my finger on. When you are new at it, it seems after fiddling with this and fiddling with that, you just gotta get some outside input.

Thanks!
 
Nice!

I just downloaded the short clip of Time. Had to play it several times to believe my ears how good those female back vocals are... wow! Can I rent them for a while? :D

Everything sounds very good.

I'm kind of an analytical control freak recordist I guess. If I was there recording this band, we'd probably start with a click track, everybody would do their parts separately or acoustically isolated, everything would be in time/compressed/in tune and punched in if it wasn't perfect...

Of course that wouldn't be a representation of how you sound live, and would be very clinical, and you'd probably hate it.... so never mind... that's just the way I record. Carry on!
 
I am a HUGH Floyd fan, so, I will be critical here :)

<B>Comfortably Numb:</B>
"my hands felt liKE...."<<<<that "k" can be skipped, it sounded like a pop.
Roger Waters sounds more shaddy than that :D
"I turned to look..."<<might need to do another take there.
Drums get burried during the second churous
Awsome guitar tone!! The strings overpowers it a bit at the 2nd solo.

<B>Great Gig:</B>
the intro slide guitar clipped at the end.
The piano blurred the a few of the signature notes on the slide guitar!
The hamonies with the 2 girls were a little off at around 3:05
Can I borrow that girl for a few years?:D :D

<B>Shine On</B>:
That horn needs less attack at the intro.
The guitar solo at intro sounds too sharp comepare to the original.
the guitar missed one of the magic 4 notes at 4:07!!!
"Remember you were young..." I think having the lead vocal in the center is better. the sections don't quite connect very well, volume and performance wise...
The vox need to be more consistant volume wise.

<B>Us and Them:</B>
The lead guitar kicks in a bit too loud. The second time is just right tho.
Female vox are bit too loud compare to the male vocal.
The sax is too loud at 5:00. Too much dynamic to me.
"down and out..." <<the delay is a bit too fast

Negative comments aside, this is wonderful. Very close to the originals. Nice performance and recording. Just gotta pay a little more attention to the flow of the dynamic, I would say.

AL
 
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