My stuff...

[Amorican]

I'm new here. I really look forward to being on this site, it seems awesome.

Check out my stuff and give some feedback. "Wasting Away" is the only one mastered and probably the best quailty tune I made so far. The other ones aren't mastered--they are mastered the old way I used to do it.

I wanna know how everything sounds and if you can tell what is mastered and what aint.

www.myspace.com/tonynash

 

[NYMorningstar]

Welcome to the BBS Tony! It's always a pleasure to be hearin new talent. Be ready for some shockers though because they will tell you like it is here, but really that's what you want to hear.

For starters I suggest you go to

https://homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=1

and read for a long while to learn what mastering really is because there is alot more to it than throwing a compressor/limiter on your tracks and equing them.

The tunes sound good but still need some work. There are alot of timing issues, the distortion guitar is too distorted IMHO and there is an incredible amount of pick noise you need to take care of on the acoustic. All in all your in a great position and these dudes here will help you polish it up. Good luck!

 

[RAMI]

Good start to a song, but of course, without vocals, a song isn't finished. I agree with everything NYMorningstar said above. It needs to be tighter, playing-wise and sound-wise. The drums are a little weak. Nice chord progression though, and you're on the right track. As far as "Mastering" is concerned, again, like NYM said, it' an art in itself, and mastering engineers specialise in it for a reason. Keep it up though. It sounds pretty good so far.

 

[Amorican]

Yeah The solo is def lacking and I didn't play to a click track or anything.

BUT I am kinda down now...I know I have to improove but I thought I knew what mastering is...See I thought this was the best I can get my mix...I was told my guitar sound was way to big before so I evened it out.

The shaker is homemade by me too--haha. I bought the tambourine and Djembe to help fill out rytyhm tracks cause I don't have a full drum kit.

These are my first recordings with the Djembe and I spent a week calibrating it. Got the mics just right...The right thuds I want and shit.

I feel like all my self learned stuff is kinda bad. I asked for feedback and I REALLY thank you! Just sayin'.

What specifics can you give now? I wanna put up a song that'll impress yall!

I am gonna go back and record the old way withouth the mastering mode on fostex at end so that way I can have piano and tons of parts layerd like I want. I feel the compression adds the extra umph that makes it as loud as normal studio cds. So it's a step back I think.

 

[RAMI]

See I thought this was the best I can get my mix...

Don't EVER think that. That's NEVER the case.

I am gonna go back and record the old way withouth the mastering mode on fostex at end so that way I can have piano and tons of parts layerd like I want. I feel the compression adds the extra umph that makes it as loud as normal studio cds. So it's a step back I think.

That's what we were saying. There's a whole lot more to mastering than pressing a compressor button that will make your mix louder. But I'm trying to understand what havng or not having your "mastering" button has to do with whether you add "piano and tons of parts". Those 2 things have nothing to do with each other.


Hey man, it's a good mix and a good tune. There's nothing about it that can be called "bad". But there's a big difference between good, very good, and great. If it makes you feel better, none of us claim to be much better than good. That's what this board is for. In the year or so that I've been here, my mixes have gone from really bad to pretty good, on a good day...if I'm lucky.
So you just have to keep posting and reading and praticing and mixing and re-mixing. There's great advice all over this site. Check out the MIXING/MASTERING section as often as possible, too.

 

[Amorican]

Thanks bud your right. I have been soaking knoweldge this far, doing all I can...I will never stop. i just never like to settle for lowest...I always strive for such big dreams with my music and everything. Eh thats just the dreamer in me I suppose.

 

[XLR]

I listened to Wasting Away. I like the acoustic gtr sound, its rhythm and the descending upper voice implied in its chords. The two rhythm guitar parts are very similar, in unison much of the time and that'd be more effective IMO if it was two acoustic gtrs panned L and R instead of the elec rhythm gtr on the right. The elec gtr lead lines are well composed but I'd move it to the center for better balance. The elec's also kind of pitchy, so I'd rehearse the hell out of it and retrack some of the phrases. The acoustic is noticealby compressed sounding in the highs at times, and it'd sound better IMO if it wasn't.

I like the percussion. It'd really pull the arrangement together if everything in all the parts was rhythmically a bit tighter.

As far as progressing goes, hell if I can look back every 6 months at stuff I recorded before and say, "man, I've come a long way", that's a good philosophy I think. It can always be better.

Tim

 

[RAMI]

Thanks bud your right. I have been soaking knoweldge this far, doing all I can...I will never stop. i just never like to settle for lowest...I always strive for such big dreams with my music and everything. Eh thats just the dreamer in me I suppose.

Hey man, we all are...that's what makes us musicians until we die.