I'm hoping to get this on the Compilation CD...

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I'm digging the tune, you sound a big black blues singers evil counterpart... heh. Are you a big black blues singer?

Nice lyrics man, I'm a fan.. Did you send it to Slack yet? That reminds me, I got to send him some dough.
 
demensia said:
I'm digging the tune, you sound a big black blues singers evil counterpart... heh. Are you a big black blues singer?
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No. I'm green. See my avatar. ;)
That's not me singing.

Nice lyrics man, I'm a fan.. Did you send it to Slack yet?
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Gonna send it this week, but I may tweak it depending on feedback here.
 
Sounds real; good so far I like it.
I'm going to give this a few more listens and get back to you.

Your tracks gets better each time you submit.:cool:
 
I appreciate the thought, my gamma-irradiated brother. I look forward to your comments....




I think this is some of my best work so far, but the silence on this thread is deafening:confused:
 
ChuckU said:
I think this is some of my best work so far, but the silence on this thread is deafening:confused:
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Give it time, my good man, we're coming. :)

Chuck, you know this is not my style, so everything I am about to say should be taken in that light.

First, I agree, recording-wise, mix-wise, etc., this is the best stuff I've heard from you yet. It is evident that you are developing your skills.

Second the guitar lead is smokin'. There are more notes in that run that I've played in my entire life. :D

Lastly, however, I didn't particularly care for the singer. And for some reason I felt I wanted to hear the song sung an octave higher. I assume, however, this is how you wrote it, so. . . but I thought it would have had more excitment an octave above where he sang it.

Overall, Very nice work.

Mike
 
Very cool tune.

I really liked the guitars,they sounded great.
Drums were very good too.

The only minor thing I heard was the BG vocals around 2:26 were a little weak compared to the powerful lead ones.
Just a minor nitpick though.

Sounds like it's ready for the cd to me!

Pete
 
rockin tune. kicks butt. In the intro though, the first fill with snare and toms didnt sound like the same kit thats doing the tune, the 2nd fill was ok on the snare but the toms were a bit weak. I think there`s a touch too much distance between the bg vox and primary, in the hook of the chorus they are together pretty well. I`d turn up the bg most the way through the tune. Guitars nice, bass nice, drums nice but a bit strong in verses. good tracking.
 
I'm gonna remember this mix because I thoght the guitars were mixed waaaay too low, but it sounded great, maybe because the durms and bass had such a groove going.

There was a bit too much headroom left in the mix IMO and I found the tone on the left panned guitar to be a little thin.

Great song, vocals sat perfect.
 
Chuck, here's a *bump* for you. In the meantime I was wondering, did you play all the gits and the bass on this song?
 
Yeah. Pretty cool. Definate rocker!
On the first "Can you feel me" it sounded like the vocalist stepped in toward the mic, and I thought I detected some proximity effect as a result.

I didn't like the panned guitars at the beginning, but I thought the solo kicked!!

Cool tune!
 
dachay2tnr said:
Chuck...did you play all the gits and the bass on this song?
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Yes. The rhythm guitars were played through a '60's Fender Vibro Champ tube amp. I miked it with my Sennheiser 421. It seems to give a wider response on guitar amps for me than a '57.
The lead and bass went thru my J-Station. The lead was an experiment. I was just noodling around with sounds and riffs and that's what came of it. Totally improvised and not real easy to reproduce, so I kept it.

The flange on the intro guitar is the Sonar flanger plug-in.

Drums are live. LD condenser on the hat (MXL V67). Tracks for kick(Beta-52), snare(SM-57) and two SD condensers (MXL 603's) on overheads. I had the toms close-miked, but the tracks are muted because I thought enough level was coming thru overheads. I may reconsider this.
 
Ya ChuckU,

Well done. I leave the mix comments to the pros here as I'm more of a player/writer new to recording myself.

Song holds together well and is nicely excecuted. Keep That guitar solo man, saaaamokin'! Great lyric and appropriate for the times :cool: ! Good luck on the comp II.

Also had a fun listen to There Is No Greater Love under 'jazz improv' @ your nowhere page. Someone's been listening and transcribing some Charlie Parker & Oscar Peterson...........very cool!!!!!

peace,
flat-9
 
that guitar riff is fucking AWESOME...

the drums sound great too....im on phones ..so keep that in mind..
im not a fan of the the panning on the guitar right at the begining ....the vocals remind me of gene simmons...very cool.
yeah i can FEEEEEEEL YOOOOOUUU....lol
man that guitar hook is so sweet .
the lead fits righ on too....i mean the flo......is that you?....NICE WORK whoever it is.






excellent.
jamal
 
This is a really cool song.:cool:

Regarding the intro panning,I think it mght work better if it were panned hard and fast as a left/right reply,kind of like....
L -------------------------- R
da-da-da-da.................da-da-da-da

If you can hear what I'm writing.:rolleyes:

THE LEAD ROCKS!

LATER!
 
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Definately Gene Simmons !!!!:D ;)

This could almost be a KISS tune.

Nice tones on the gits.
Smokin riffs.

Drums could use a little tweakin, they aren't as crisp as the rest of the tune but the playin is there. It seems as if they are seperate from the rest of the song (if that makes any sense to ya)

Nice tunage!

jcmm
 
Kick butt. Solo is great man..listening thru cans, but it sounds like a real good recording*****
 
hey, Chuck

I remmeber hearing your older tunes (about 1 yr ago) and you were using midi trigger drums back then. I must say the real drums difinitely sound more alive, but less professional sounding tho. I guess it's compromise....

anyway, I like how you play with the timing at intro. Pretty cool.
The first thing that turns me off is the vocal. It's either the room sound or the verb you use, it doesn't sound as upfront as I would expect for this type of tune. and the volume gets a little too low at some spots, and then a little too loud at other spots like the ending. I think some compression will help.

There is something really weird around 2:30, like there is a build-up right before that, but then the dynamic of the whole mix doesn't live up to it, do you know what I mean?

I hope my comments are helpful

BTW, Jazz Improv is one nice sounding mix and tune.

Al
 
Nice rocking tune. The guitar tones and their parts are real good. The riff, the rhytym, bass, everything sounds very good. Good guitar solo. The riff is real catchy. I liked the drum sounds.

Lyrically so-so.

I'm not real thrilled with the lead vocals. They either need some reverb or doubling. The backing vocals have some execution issues. They kind of hit with a "thud." Lead singer has trouble with the last note at about 3:08.

My thoughts.
 
Well,
I certainly got some good feedback here.

The general gist is:
1. Guitar panning at beginning is not necessary, or not well executed.
2. Guitar solo is good.
3. Mixed review on vocals.
4. Drum mix could be better.
5. 'Jazz Improv' is good.

I'll take it here:
1. I may try Acidrock's idea. Yeah, I can hear what you're writing.
2. Thank you.
3. Well, the guy did what I asked him. Some of you like it, some don't. I didn't compress vocs because I'm not comfortable with my use of compressor on vocs (did use one on kick) so I just ride the levels. Probably need to tweak that.
4. This is gonna get another tweak, as are guitars and bass. The instruments are really fighting each other more than I'd like. Drum mix by itself sounds really nice IMO.
5. I've been told this is my best recording. How sad. I work twice as hard on everything else with less results. We played off the real book, and I threw five mics up in the room and ran the keys direct. Very few plugins on the mix.
 
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