How does this song hit you?

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Good vox. The song has a Pinback vibe to it. It sounds like you encountered a fair amount of digital distortion somewhere along the line though.
 
Well I do like this style. I don't know about the Pinback reference, possibly from the "low-fi" quality or the minimalism...in places. I don't know, but I likely. Sounds more like Beck to me. I know very little about recording, but I do like the creativity and song structure. Thanks for posting!
 
Sounds really coool. I wanted to try and get into this style. Is that real guitar or samples? How much of it is samples?

The acoustic guitar just kicked in and it sounds really nice. :D two thumbs up. your voice sounds good ovr the guitar to.

Almost reminds me of NIN
 
thanks guys. we hear that this sounds like beck alot (though we're a little confused by it), but pinback is new. i'll hafta give that "lo-fi" junk a listen. can anyone point me to specifics of these comparisons?
this is a great board. thanks again.
 
You'll have to do some remixing of the intro. Something is missing. It doesn't have any tension. It has all the elements but ???
The drums could be a little more aggressive.
Otherwise this works well - a good piece.
Perhaps listen to some stuff by Wire (the Pink Flag album'd be best) for some left of centre ideas. NIN etc are good reference points but you don't need to go any further in that direction.
Good Good Good
 
thanks for the ideas. haven't heard any wire but i'll be checking it out. i kinda like the naked acoustic at the beginning, but i can see what you mean.
what about the others?
thanks again.
 
WOW. This is pretty damn awesome. Yeah, it hit me. Do you have any information on your band? The soundclick page gots nada.
Thanks very much for sharing! Great work, man.
Only note I might make is that hopefully you can replace some synth parts with instruments?
 
This is "my cup of tea" music. I dig the tune.

The only beef I would have is that the lead guitar bit with the acoustic is too big. Your rythm guitar and vocals sound perfectly matched.

I want to hear the electric version of this song with a band, with blazing guitar.


Good stuff, Garrett
 
Sounds good.
Nice style.
Not sure on the kick drum effect though, kinda puts too much attention on the kick rather than the vocals and melodies.
Sounds confusing as to what you ahve made as the main focu of the song.

Good stuff though.
Eck
 
Thanks again guys for all your feedback. you guys are seriously hitting some of our concerns with this stuff.
We're trying to decide what to do with it (if anything). Maybe shop it around as a demo or something? What do you guys think? Thanks again.

DAS19- I really appreciate your interest. I completely missed your post until now.The only guitar sampling is in Nothing To See. Most of the strange bits in Walt are synths.
 
Sounds cool. The first cutt out effect is out of time and a bit too strong for me. I am sure that it is supposed to be that way. For me it gets under my skin. So did Sound Garden whe they diliberetly played out of key on their first album. So what do I know. I own that album and most of their others;)

To me the effect should be weaker(by weaker I mean not totally cutting out, by doing that you could scate the timing issue some) or in time. I would rather see it in time though. I do think the song is very cool though and don't want to see the effect removed totally.



F.S.
 
Freudian-Could you be more specific. I apologize, but I'm not sure exactly what part of the song you mean. Thanks.

Also, would anyone consider giving Nothing To See a listen?
Appreciation
 
abandonedbrain said:
Freudian-Could you be more specific. I apologize, but I'm not sure exactly what part of the song you mean. Thanks.

Also, would anyone consider giving Nothing To See a listen?
Appreciation
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Sure it's at 13 seconds in. There is also a pop before that but just a small one. a synth comes in and everything cutts in and out a couple times real quick with that electrical short sound. It just hit's me as out of time and to me it would sound better with the sound jumping levels instead of totally in and out. Maybe if something was behind it. Just my take

As fare as "nothing to see" goes. Sounds pretty cool not not quite my style but I like it anyway. The mix sounds good to me except on part at about 55 seconds a guitar comes in in very abrupt spurts and it's a bit to loud. It really over powers the vocals. I would try backing the volume of on it a little until you can destinguish the vocals. It comes in again later in the song to but it seems fine then. Just the part that starts at about 55 seconds.

Really sounds pretty cool. Good job!

F.S.
 
I have to agree with freudian, i wasn't sure what happened at 13 seconds. Its the kinda thing some people would love or hate though
 
you guys are dead on. some will hear it as abrasive, and some will hear it as refreshing. i'm fine with both.
ya'll continue to hit us with things to mull over... and we are doing so.
thank you
 
abandonedbrain said:
you guys are dead on. some will hear it as abrasive, and some will hear it as refreshing. i'm fine with both.
ya'll continue to hit us with things to mull over... and we are doing so.
thank you
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Very true. I only suggest you try to satisfie both. With something in the background (even faded in 60 hz hum) you would keep the effect but make it sound like less of a mistake.

Sorry for being so blunt. I just feel that at this point it could be taken as a f*ck up.

Taking in to consideration the quality of the rest of the recording is the only thing that made me avoid that conclusion.

Still think that it over all sounds great.

Don't hate me;)

F.S.
 
The bluntness is appreciated much more than rose-tinted feedback. Jeremy and I had a conversation about that particular part a few minutes ago. That's why I'm posting HERE. Thanks.
 
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