Your stuff is getting harder and harder to critique, because of the decent level of quality and the sheer enjoyment of it.
I've been having some streaming issues too lately...but not too much a major problem.
onwards...
To be on the REALLY critical edge:
the radio dial spinning....is neat...Pink Floyd too...remember? Like Track Rat, I think we've all done that one time or another..and you can only really do it on one tune!! eh?? but the alarm clock makes it all original!!
the intro playing is nice. It almost reminds me of some of the harder Mahavisnu Orchestra stuff with the guitar licks you do, minus any weird time signatures. The intro is just long enough. At 1:07, where you break...the bass sound you use is ok...but I'd take a "cleaner' Geddy "Ric" sound if you can get one...not quite as distorted. But...personal choice, I suppose. Also, at this point, this is where I'd like to hear a more "normal" guitar lead. I know you claim the "no playee guitaree" fame, but I think you could shred a decent solo here SANS ebow, whammy, etc. You get that stuff in the beginning, and now it is time to change gears, guitar wise. Or maybe some synth pads, since the chording starts to "wander" around looking for its place. Mind you, it all sounds good, but this is how I 'might' prefer it. At over 3 minutes of the thick chording and wildness on top of it, it starts to have a sameness to it, that is fine I suppose on a CD, but as a single, makes it a rough way to go. When you switch back to the radio stuff again, it might be neat to have the song you just did, as one of the songs you skip over, but in lofi....get it? The song does take a drastic change, and I know you like to do that, but it is less "convincing" than the drastic alarm clock ending... One of your musical mood swings that needs a transformation part.
Production wise, I think a change in the level of "thickness's" you go thru might help. Get rid of the linerarity that I always complain about on other peoples threads. Some additional 'ear candy' always works for me too. You know, the subtle headphone stuff.
Your recording chops are hard to critique also, because for the most part they are there. Your drums DO sound good. On some of the real high whammy notes, the high notes...like way up above dbl C, seem to change tone and crack up a bit. It almost sounds like my phone rings in the background, when I crank your music. I think more a function of the pedal, than the recording, however. Maybe to make things even more "bigger than life" you could thicken up the toms, and pan the drums even wider. That might revert you back to the 80's, however, but it is something
I like. You might also see about some Proteus vocal patches too. I have never really used them myself, and don't own any. But I have heard some that are really on another level than the Roland/Alesis stuff. More $$$ !!! ha!
I'd like to comment more, as I really like to try and dig into high caliber stuff. It's good for me too. But, I seem to be running out of ideas, and I'm looking at the clock and have to take someone sailing in about a 1/2 hour.
I'm amazed that in the 8 hours I skipped viewing the clinic, you have a new thread with 25 responses. You outta be ashamed for taking up such valuable bandwidth.
I'll listen some more, but that's all I can spew for now....
first thing that came to my head was rob zombie, with the radio thing. then the song kicked in, and it was a sab tune all the way!! (there's no mistaking your style bro)
it's all samicide, but at the sametime it's missing b. sabbath??? damn i suck with word's!!!!!!
I'm pissed cause as I was listening I couldn't tell if they were real drums or not. Usually I can tell right off the bat.
