Hi, I am a home recording artist in Seattle who is working towards a CD project with 11 tunes. I record using Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 XL. I am primarily a guitarist, but for the demo versions I am posting, I am playing all instruments except the drums which are loops from Drums On Demand (awesome product by the way).I have a Soundblaster Audigy 2 sound card being fed by both direct inputs and the guitars through a POD V2.0.
These songs are rough mixes, without the vocals or acoustic instruments added yet, just the basic tracks. The neanderthal mixing was done by committing the cardinal sin of mixing on headphones. I know this is a horrible practice and intend to mix these right once I have a good sound room and pro monitors (and a lot more experience).
What I would like is just some general feedback on sound, arrangement, production and anything else you can help me with.
I have 6 demos ready for you to listen to but have all 11 songs (including lyrics) written. Since my ISP only allows 10Megs of webspace per e-mail address, I can only post 2 at a time on separate websites. Here are 4 of the tunes downloadable from the 2 sites below. Please let me know what you think. Feel free to critique it to ribbons, I just want to learn and to have the songs be the best they can.
Ill post the link to tunes #5 and #6 in a later post to this thread.
And in advance, thanks for taking the time to consider my work in the context of your experience and professionalism. I really appreciate this.
-Tim
Site #1 = http://home.earthlink.net/~emotico/
Site #2 = http://home.earthlink.net/~napalimoon/
These songs are rough mixes, without the vocals or acoustic instruments added yet, just the basic tracks. The neanderthal mixing was done by committing the cardinal sin of mixing on headphones. I know this is a horrible practice and intend to mix these right once I have a good sound room and pro monitors (and a lot more experience).
What I would like is just some general feedback on sound, arrangement, production and anything else you can help me with.
I have 6 demos ready for you to listen to but have all 11 songs (including lyrics) written. Since my ISP only allows 10Megs of webspace per e-mail address, I can only post 2 at a time on separate websites. Here are 4 of the tunes downloadable from the 2 sites below. Please let me know what you think. Feel free to critique it to ribbons, I just want to learn and to have the songs be the best they can.
Ill post the link to tunes #5 and #6 in a later post to this thread.
And in advance, thanks for taking the time to consider my work in the context of your experience and professionalism. I really appreciate this.
-Tim
Site #1 = http://home.earthlink.net/~emotico/
Site #2 = http://home.earthlink.net/~napalimoon/