NEW SONG "EVERYTHINGS A LIE" CHECK IT OUT AND LEAVE COMMENTS THANKS

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Hey Bro, Haven't seen you for awile. First thing. work on the stum pattern on your guitar. I would highly suggest you try picking the whole song. Except maybe when you get into the last chorus part. Also, are you multi tracking. If not, you should really go with the multi tracking. Then you can concentrate on just your guitar and just your vocals. I will say, the picking in the very beginning and at the end is pretty cool. Couldn't reall hear the vocals really well so I cant really comment on the lyrics. One more thing. I know we all had the conversation with you that if you come on here and ask opinions......well you may get them. I would suggest that you go to your choir class at school or you may have some freinds in there, and ask them if they could come to your house and record a song for you that you have written. I think you would really be surprised with answer you get. I must say....Much improvement from the last time we heard you. Keep working at it man,


Stockton
 
yeah

thanks man for replying i am in my school choir we go to diff states all the time to sing but not this kind of music no im not multi tracking its just a live recording i have no multi track system or w.e i have a tascam 424 mkIII but how can i get that into my computer??

thanks later
 
Go to the adobe web site and you can download adobe audition for a month. Then you can see if it helps. If so you can go to best buy or some place like that and get a cheap recording program for like 20$.
 
Not bad. A bit midrangey. Very good dynamics. One thing I might do differently is I would arrange your song like this. Start w/ your lower finger picking thing and the soft singing thing. Because you are on pitch with the softer singing and the guitar sounds better picking. Then, after 30 seconds, pick it up and strum and sing loud. Then after doing that for a short while, go back to the lower dynamic thing but for a long time and slowly build it back up to a peak towards the end of the song and then jam out. It's fine that you are jamming out loud and it's not perfect, but you want to save that up for when it's really important.

Then after that peak, do what you did and bring it back down. So I would only do the loud strum loud sing 2 times. For a tease near the top, then built up to a peak towards the end. You shine thru that loud part ok even tho it's not technically perfect. But you don't want to over use that loudness and less-than-technically-perfect part because it can get grating due to the lack of polish. There's nothing wrong with it, but some folks have sensitivity to that.

If you want to improve your recording quality, that's a whole other issue, but you don't have to do that for any reason yet. Good job.
 
yeah

thanks man not really used to hearing words like dynamics what does that mean haha thanks for listenting and for giving me pointers on to make the song better
thanks later
 
14yo - dynamics is about "loudness". So a song with a wide dynamic range like yours will have big contrasts between quiet and loud parts. We like that around here because so much commercial material is produced to be very loud all the time - that is, it has no dynamic range - and we are fed up with it.

Play a modern rock CD back to back with one from twenty years ago and you'll exactly what I mean.
 
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o ok man i know what dynamics are now lol thanks
later
 
Im guessing you used a sm57/(or some type of dynamic mic) in a bedroom?
This would sound as lot better(if im right about the sm57)if you

1.Recorded it in a "Liver" room. Like a room with wood floors or in the kitchen or bathroom maybe.
2. Used a condenser microphone.(if you did, refer to pointer #1)

Liked the song though.
Pretty mature work for a youngster. :)
 
nope

nah i used my computer mic which is nothing close to the sm 57 i have a sm 58 but how do i connect it to my computer??
 
not bad...

definitely go for anything other than the computer mic...lol I think a preamp might get you recording into the soundcard.

someone mentioned strum pattern...its like too much "down...down...down...down" 1,2,3,4

you know, create a rhythm, like up...downdown...up...down" to make it more interesting. 1,2,3,4 is for the bass drum.

multitracking: you record you playing the guitar of the song after you have it really down. Then, you go back and listen to the guitar track softly while you record the singing part. That way you can really get into the guitar track without worrying about hte singing. Then, you can burn a cd off, and sing to your song for a couple of weeks till you think you got it down, then you lay down a vocal track. When you record tracks separately, you get a chance to EQ them and add effects and stuff. EQ is like when you adjust your home stereo eq so you like the "sound", except you can do it separately for each track.

dont make ten other songs...keep arranging and working on THIS song. you got a start with it. dont get discouraged.

someone already covered dynamics. good first effort.
 
could someone suggest a half decent free multitrack recorder?

I know one exists, i found one before i got cool edit pro.

if you keep searching thru big "free downloads" sites like tucows and such, you can get a demo version of a big multitrack program, or a scaled down freeware that will get you started so you can record individual tracks and MIX them.

then, you have options: guitar too loud? turn down the guitar track. Vocals too soft, turn up the vocal track. separate volume adjustments per instrument (track) is the number one advantage to multitracking. 2nd benefit is EQ ing and adding effects separately.

surely someone can suggest a entry level simple multitracking freeware program? send me an email, dude:

sedstar@comcast.net

i'll look for the freeware mixing program i used to use. If i find it, i need to know yer email addy.
 
ur right

lol man i was already trying to do another song but imma get this down good thanks for listening and ur comments
later
 
thanks man

thanks man thats a great help is it just a demo or i can have it for a longggggggg time or does it end like in 15 days or something??
 
i think its freeware

i think its freeware, so i dont THINK its a trial. Its not as good as cool edit pro or whatever else, but it will get you started. If your songwriting skills are up to snuff, and guitar playing and singing, youd be amazed how good of a song you can record and MIX with it...mixing skills become key. Performing and recording and mixing skills are different skills...lol

if you email me yer email addy, i can send you some stuff to help you out. I been researching this a while now. Itll give you a quicker start. No sense reinventing the wheel.
 
kool

ok man thanks my address is nightprowlerzx@aol.com tahts my sn too if u have an sn how old are u anyway ill have to work on all of my skills to get a good song lol thanks
 
yo man

yo man im having poblems with that thing man write back to me
 
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