My first song >> Advices wanted

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Hello!
I’m making my first song at my home studio.
I have idea, music, and lyrics. I put everything into Cool Edit and mixed it down.
It doesn’t sound nice YET but I hope you would help me to make it right at the end.
We intend to record everything from the scratch, write nice solo and find someone else to sing. (Someone who can English)
We did not record back up vocals yet. They are preliminary played on synthesizer. Boooo!

Every single track is recorded and saved as mp3 file because my band is kind an internet bend. Next time we’ll save wavs.

I need some directions! Any advice, suggestion ...

PLease go to:

http://the-sikter.magix.net/

and choose "Music"

see you there
 
I actually liked it quite a lot! Even with your accent it sounded good! Sure a lot better than my first song. I can't think of any suggestions.. keep the vocal up front so you can understand it.. Not really much to criticize!
 
schenkerguy said:
I actually liked it quite a lot! Even with your accent it sounded good! Sure a lot better than my first song. I can't think of any suggestions.. keep the vocal up front so you can understand it.. Not really much to criticize!
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Thank you!
I hoped for few more feed backs from others.
The thing is that song was first played very gently. Piano, synth and acoustic guitar and we decided to put some extra rock guitar. The song became more aggressive comparing to the first version and now we are not sure if it is exaggerated.
 
very nice low end. I like what you did with the kick. the intro sound is sorta cheesy. IT sounds like the inbuilt midi that come with computers.

overall not bad at all for a first mix. It needs some normalization but other wise pretty decent.
 
CyanJaguar said:
very nice low end. I like what you did with the kick. the intro sound is sorta cheesy. IT sounds like the inbuilt midi that come with computers. overall not bad at all for a first mix. It needs some normalization but other wise pretty decent.
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I agree!
The kick is kicking ass maybe becaouse of bad cheesy intro.
But anyway, do you consider changing intro?
Solo is dirty but maybe it should stay that way. See you!
 
Sounds great. even the cheesy intro. Only thing i'll suggest is to make the solo more centred, not panned so much.
 
Listening through headphones....Intro piano was nice - I thought it was well played.....That bass drum is pretty phat (that's good). All the instruments/vocal have their own space in the mix. I like the guitar - especially on the right side distorted rhythm and then left side during the solo.
I agree this is a good tune man! Did you play and sing everything or is this a band you're in/recorded? :D
 
ido1957 said:
Listening through headphones....Intro piano was nice - I thought it was well played.....That bass drum is pretty phat (that's good). All the instruments/vocal have their own space in the mix. I like the guitar - especially on the right side distorted rhythm and then left side during the solo.
I agree this is a good tune man! Did you play and sing everything or is this a band you're in/recorded? :D
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We are two friends who don't see each other often so we are practising via internet. :o
On this song he played main keyboard (with rhythm section). He sang too and somebody helped him to mix it down. When I heard the first version I found it too soft ( My thing is Rock and he is more POP musician)

I got his mp3-mix and added some guitar tracks (direct injection recording via pedal).
One with kind a chorus and others were dirty ones.
I was supposed to get some help with backing vocals but girls did not show up so I cheated on my old Korg M1.

The funny thing (which is actually very sad) is:
His PC broke down. The project is gone.
Only thing we have now is his mp3-mix and my preliminary recorded guitar tracks.
Someone told me to bring vocals to the front.
I agree. But it’s too late for this version. We are going to record everything over again but I really needed old project to play and experiment with.

Thank you for feed back!
 
sikter said:
We are two friends who don't see each other often so we are practising via internet. :o
On this song he played main keyboard (with rhythm section). He sang too and somebody helped him to mix it down. When I heard the first version I found it too soft ( My thing is Rock and he is more POP musician)

I got his mp3-mix and added some guitar tracks (direct injection recording via pedal).
One with kind a chorus and others were dirty ones.
I was supposed to get some help with backing vocals but girls did not show up so I cheated on my old Korg M1.

The funny thing (which is actually very sad) is:
His PC broke down. The project is gone.
Only thing we have now is his mp3-mix and my preliminary recorded guitar tracks.
Someone told me to bring vocals to the front.
I agree. But it’s too late for this version. We are going to record everything over again but I really needed old project to play and experiment with.

Thank you for feed back!
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I am sorry about you loosing your project.
The same happened to my once. I recorded everything from the stretch but it never became as good as first one.

Good luck!
 
I must have the wrong link.........I heard NO voices that others are speaking of here..........and in the 1st part of the song......I seemed to think that either the drums were rushing or something else was draging in the timing. However I liked in the very beginning where you seemed to have a phase-shifter working on the cymbals across the sound spectrum. Then on into the song......the drums were doing some nice passes.

Just my view....which is not being critical...just an observation.
 
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