New song, short instrumental

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TheGreatBongChicken

TheGreatBongChicken

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Hey guys, I wrote this Wednsday and recorded the guitar and bass... then the drums the next day. I just had this riff in my head and wanted to get it recorded, and then it sort of evolved into a mini song.

I may add lyrics, I may not... I'm not sure.

http://www.myspace.com/jamesharmermusic

What I'm specifically wondering about is the panning on the guitars. I have 5 different mixdowns and this is my favorite so far. I have the rythem guitar panned hard left and right and lead in the center, and then there's a break where it switches. Lead is hard right and left and rythem is in the center. Until the last Chord where the rythem guitar get's "big" again.

I just don't know about panning like that with the lead because I want it to sound good in mono systems and stereo systems.

Any comments on anything are welcome though. It's the first song, just titled "new material" real short.

-James'
 
"New Material" - I downloaded the file and it came out as a WMA file named DynamicPanningMixFix. Interesting mix with the panning variations. You're going to have to check it in mono to know whether it works in that format - or upload to YOUTUBE which is mono.

I like it - very good playing and very melodic guitar riffs. I'd love to hear this as a 320 MP3 .....:D
 
Here it is in 320 mp3,



I've always panned the music I record with Rythem hard left and right and lead center, because it sounds good stereo and mono. And I also could see doing lead left and right, leaving rythem center, but usually the guitar I want to sound "biggest" is the one playing the whole time. This song though has two guitars harmonizing at one part, and that's where I switched the panning. I almost never do the standard rythem left, lead right(or vice versa) because of how it comes out in mono systems, and I've never been much for that sound.

All together though, I'm still experimenting with how this will be panned, and all thoughts are welcome. Especially people who have been doing it for a long time.

-James'
 
Personally, you should pan a rhythm left and right very hard. 100%... I think the rhythm guitars are filling up the middle too much and drown everything else out. As they sit now, they are too loud.
 
hmm.... well, they are actually panned 100% left and right. Aside from where the lead comes in after the break... right after the little sweeping arpeggio on the guitar I switch the rhythm to center and put lead left and right.

I guess I have to bring the volume down of the rhythm guitar.

-James'
 
Good job,
I wanted to read some of the text on your page, but the page background photo makes it impossible.
 
Oh, I'm sorry... some browsers display the font differently.

I guess you could highlight it?

Very soon I'm going to be redesigning the whole page.

-James'
 
It has to do with a picture being the background over the top of scrolling text. The background is multi colored, multi textured and it makes it very difficult to pick out the text. If you make the text tables have a solid background, then it would be easy to read.

Web sites have to be easy for people to read and navigate or they will leave the page in about 2 seconds and go on to the next item on their busy list of things to do.

Just friendly advice from a web master and a web surfers point of view.
 
I like this a lot. The guitars sound great. I'm a proponent of hard panning on multiple guitar parts too, and you've done it really well here. Excellent sense of depth and texture in the mix. Great playing too!
 
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