My 1st post

[JohnnyR]

Hi Guys,

Just been trawling Google looking for a site where I can share my music & get some constructive criticism. I'm a full time guitar teacher & guitarist with a couple of home-spun albums under my belt, and this track is the opener from my latest offering. I was aiming for a balance between melody and virtuoso fret melting, as I don't believe the two things are mutually exclusive.

My set up is pretty basic - I use Cakewalk Sonar to record to, with all the usual VSTs. For the guitar sound, I use a VOX Tonelab preamp/fx. Soundcard, I'm afraid to say is an ancient Soundblaster Live - the results sound pretty good to me when played back on my iPod, or HiFi, but I'm wondering what I'm missing out on by not having a more sophisticated way of getting sounds to my PC.

Grateful for any feedback

Here's the link to the track:

Cheers,

John.

 

[TheChikenMaster]

sounds cool. the drums kinda weak to much compression.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I like the guitar tone; very cool.

I'd lay off on the crash a little. It ends up just filling the track with noise.

There was a loud pop at the end of the sustained note about three fifths of the way through.

Interesting ending. It's not often you hear that sort of blues coda on an arena-rocky heavy metal song.

 

[rayc]

What VHS said about the crash is smash on!
SBL card can & will do at a pinch - particulalrly if you're not using mics.
So far so good as it's not a Shred Exhibition.
When you get heavily into many notes & speed the melody suffers - I know you want some virtuoso moments but they don't show you skill nearly so much as the paying on the change (the Reaper sounding bit is cool for example).
You lost me about 3/5th through when you left the melody behind.
The blues outro was a nice touch - there was a time when almost everyone did that.