Instrumental track

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I'd really love to hear oppinions on this instrumental track. Thank you,
Carlos
 
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Kick ass tune carlos.Melodic and technical.....you have some great influences listed in your bio and it shows.Nice job of getting 3 or 4 different moods throughout this tune.Really good guitar playing.
 
Kramer my friend, I'm glad you got that cleared up. Good to see you again. O.K. about the song the guitars to me where way out front. Needed the drums up and the bass, but, don't listen to me to much... you'll get advice I'm sure.
 
Very interesting composition-and great guitar playing-you were wailing-but it seemed in service of the song. Great tempo/mood changes-alot happens in this tune!Mix sounded fine to me-I liked the guitar and key tones and the drum programming was tight.Very good job. Adding more stars....


p.s. Thanks to kramer for providing a link to your stuff.
 
Thank you very much Kramer, Flash, and Stratomaster for the comments and your help posting a link to the song. It was recorded with the guitars sounding intentionally louder than anything else. I used SONAR for recording this; I'm just learning to use it and I'm thrilled with it. Thanks again for the comments,
Carlos
 
Any more feedback on the track, the mix, the guitar tones?!! Thanks in advance for all the replies,

Carlos
 
No complaints on the guitar tone. Even though you don't list him as an influence, I hear Zappa especially at the fist section of the song. Great sound. What are you doing with the guitar?
 
Track Rat,
Definetely Zappa is a big influence on my tone and style; sometimes it's quite hard to list all the influences for there are so many great players that create an impression and affect a guitar player's style and tone such as Jeff Beck, Pul Gilbert, Hendrix, Jason Becker, Randy Rhoads, John Petrucci, Carlos Santana, and of course Eddie Van Halen among many others.
On this track the distorted guitars were recorded with a Jackson Dinky RV with a DiMarzio Tone Zone through a Boss OS-2, CS-3 and a GE-7 sent to a Mesa Nomad 45 cranked all the way up. Recorded with one SM-57. The clean guitars are with a stock Telecaster straight to the amp and picked up with 3 SM-57's in different parts (angles) of the room. The bass is a Yamaha straight to the board with a little chorus and reverb added later. Drums, Koto, Shamisen and other instruments are midi programmed using a Roland MGS-64 and once converted to WAV, edited a little with EQ, REV and Compression. That's about it. Thanks for the comments,

Carlos
 
thanks Jake. I'd really love to hear comments on the mix.
Carlos
 
good stuff.. totally sounded like Zappa at the beginning.. some real serious guitar playing! the mix sounds good over here for the most part..

maybe around the 3 minute markish, those cymbals were a bit too dynamic.. I looked hard to find something I didn't like though..

excellent tune! I liked it much..
 
carlos santana?

Hey man, this is some sweet stuff. I like the tone, I like the music. You've got a winner.
 
I'm so far behind I'm bumping stuff off page 3. Anyway, I'm a sucker for guitar stuff so I dug the tune a lot.

What would improve the mix the most IMO? Get Terry Bozzio on drums. Some of the samples (especially the toms) just aren't totally working for me. Real drums would be killer on this, but you need a really really good drummer. That would be the icing on the cake to me. Everything else is extremely tasty.
 
Echo the Zappa !!

Man I love Zappa!!!

This is mixed really well. Nothing over powering, and I can hear everything nicely. Thought I heard a little Al Dimeola in there too!
Nice chops.

Joel
 
thanks for the new comments, I really appreciate positive and negative comments for I'm pretty new here and would love to know what to leave and what to improve in my recordings. any more feedback will be really highly taken into account. thanx again,
carlos
 
I agree about the tom sound.... A real drummer would put this on top...

the stuff at 2:23 is a little corny to me...
I much rather preferred the killer shredding around the 1:36+ area. I suppose having a slanted view of a guitar player myself, I like hearing stuff where I go; " holy sh!T....that is some good playing!"

I thought that as nice as all the great textures, ideas and stuff, I just missed hearing some "oh my gosh" lead playing. ...but...I am getting pretty picking here, I KNOW.

Mix is good... maybe just some better use of verbs to bring things front and back... EQ sounds good to me
Writing is good... you shift gears a lot, and do that well
the performing is good, however, the "killer" stuff is what I look for in instrumental music....probably just a habit of other guitar players, and not the general listening public.

great job... welcome around these parts, btw, pardner!!:)
 
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