New track on NW Radio

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Just posted a rough mix on NWR:

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/rockpop/


Barbados Blues - a touch of Carlos Santana. Dodgy lead geetar in places, poor start and ending, but I would be grateful for comments as to suggestions of what drums to put in the mix (none at present), other comments gratefully received.
 
Paul, I really wanted to, but I couldn't link to the song. It said specified file can't be found :confused:
 
I have just tried and it worked okay. Try just the lofi (small arrow) and see if that works. Thanks for trying.
 
I like it so far, very Santana. Seems to me you could keep going that direction, maybe some latin type percussion. IMHO maybe percussion is all that's needed, no drum kit. Wow that sounds strange from me, I'm a drummer. Anyway keep it up, nice guitar work, maybe a little in too in front of the bass. Hope this helps :D
 
I could only get it lofi.
Sounds really good,nice guitar tone and playing.

Some Santana percussion definatly sounds in order.
Bongo type stuff,shouldn't be to much though,the guitars almost carry the song already.IMHO
How about some vocals?

Come on,you know you want to!:D

Recording sounds very nice.
Looking foward to hearing more.

Best to you,
Pete
 
You've Carlito Santana down pretty good, ese....

I can't wait to hear a finished product with bass, drums, percussion, keys, hottie latin dancers, margaritas, coronas, tecate's... it's cool ese... it's all cool...
 
the lead, performance wise is excellent..........mix wise....the rhythm guitar sounds odd, almost like you can hear the amplified signal and the string contact..........also, the lead sounds very DI, if you're playng through an amp, you aren't taking advantage of the tone...........it's solid playing, as for drums, some nice solid bongos would do the trick.....you could also add a key change or something to change it up a tad, good start
 
Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

Barometer & JR#97, I will put some bongo's on it, I have found some nice soundfonts of Latino drums. Just need a method of playing them quickly:D

Muzeman, I might try a few vocals but.... no habla espanol:)

Powderfinger, thanks for the comments about the lead guitar playing. I was trying to get a bit of a latin scratchy sound with the rythm, maybe I overdid the scratchy sound?

I will think about putting in a break somewhere, too.
 
Paul, you know how I feel about you, so don't take umbridge to some of my blunt comments:

Hmmmm, yes very Santana-like. Which leads me to

a. Second the latin percussion/bongo idea, and

b. Ask you to use the high end of the neck more. When they give those notes to you in an electric guitar, use 'em dammit!:D
I was jamming this a few times. If you get out of the pentatonic a bit and hit the b and the f (high E 13th fret) a bit more (in context of course, I think it'll get more Latin on ya - un poquito, anyway!!:rolleyes:

...and if you really want to get Santana, pick 3 notes near each other and play 'em as fast as you can ;) deedooloo,deedooloo,deedooloo.....

Technically, I'd like a little less chorus on the rhythm git, and/or maybe a second rhythm doing something different (like arpeggiating chords). Oh yeah, a little Hammond organ, too, like doing whole notes (2,3 notes at a time - use your Soundfonts and piano roll view!)

Rock on brother Paul
 
The playing seems soulful and nice. The guitar tone sounds kinda buried. And this is definately mono, so that may add to the effect of a "buried" sound. The solo guitar could use some nice subtle delay effect too. The actual song is relaxing and flows nicely. It's the drums I'd like to hear louder here (or am I hearing drums at all? I guess the hihat's there, I dunno). This is a nice instrumental mood piece overall, and it could be stretched into a more ambitious song with some vocal sections and drums but it works now too.
 
Okay...I'm an idiot

Where is it Paul? I keep getting routed to the front page...and I can't find the song there...even used the search engine.

I'm lame...

I love Santana sounding stuff...

HELP ME OUT HERE!!!

:D

-chris
 
Hey Paul881,

The link takes you to the front page of NWR. Do you have the direct link? I can't find the song ...

Thanks.
 
Paul - apparently you have "member only" download enabled, which is probably why people are having trouble with this. I had to log onto NWR in order to download the .mp3. It wouldn't let me download unless I logged on. If you did this intentionally, that's fine - but you're probably limiting your audience that way.

Now, about the music: I see nothing wrong with putting a straight drum kit on this song. You could couple it with conga's/bongo's, if you want more of a latin feel. But I think it works as a 4/4/ blues tune just as well. In fact, you could probably do both, but IMHO since the guitar is very Santana-like, I would move it away from this direction. But that's just me.

The playing is nice, but I wasn't crazy about the sound of the rhythym guitar - too reverby or chorusy or something.

I also don't think this works as an instrumental. So if you have some vocals in mind, I'd like to hear them.

I hope this doesn't sound too negative, because there's a lot to like here. It's a great start, but it has a way to go yet to make it as a "song". (And if you need any background harmonies, let me know. :) )
 
me to:rolleyes: i searched for barbados blues.....nothing.
what artist name should i search for??.... yeah i know:rolleyes:

peace

rick
 
FIX IT.......FIX IT.......FIX IT........FIXIT............. fix it?:(
 
First off, apologies for directing everyone to a members Only area of NWR. Seems I have as much to learn about NWR as Sonar:rolleyes: My thanks to Mr Dachay for putting things right, the reason it has taken me so long to post back is that it has been a long weekend holiday here in England and I have been away for a few days. And apologies for all you Santana lovers out there, I don't really begin to compare myself to Mr Santana, so don't take any offence by my playful comparison.

Chuck, no sweat with the comments, no offence taken (you should know me better by now;) )

Maybe I'll try killing the fx on the rythm geetar (recorded wet, I'll learn for next time:( ) And you are right about varying the pentatonic scale a bit - a little more chromatic would not go amiss. I have a midi controller coming soon so I can put on some bongo's/latin beats and Hammond organ easier than tapping out on my qweryty k/board, I think from all the comments, its a "must do".
Originally, I recorded this over a year ago as a pure blues number and it worked quite well, I originally wrote it for a company promo video presentation. Its amazing how just changing the tone of the guitar suggests different directions for the song.

Crankyone, thanks for your kind comments, I'll mess around more with the lead guitar when I record the lead again. You are right, there are no drums, I tried to make up for it by making the rythm "scratchy".

Dachay, I'll have to give the vocals some serious consideration, I just need to apply myself. And consider yourself booked for the harmony vocals:)

Thanks for all the posters, hopefully now Mr Dachay has come to my rescue with the correct URL there might be some more comments. I appreciate them all, keep em coming.
 
Finally got to hear it.

(1) Cool tune, so don't let anything I say distract from this point;
(2) The lead tone is kinda' hollow at the beginning, but it gets better throughout the song...(noticed it because i was looping it).
(3) It sounds like there's a little timing issue @ :30 seconds...maybe intentional...but it caught my attention each time through, so I thought I'd point it out.
(4) I (personally) think the whole mix would benefit from some Highs. It sounds like everything's happening in a pretty narrow frequency range...and as much as it pains me to agree with "Cranky One," some stereo separation might open it up a tad.
(5) See #1

Thanks for posting this. I dig all the lead stuff...

Chris
 
Paul,

rough mix in that both guitars are in the center on top of each other... no worries. Kind of dull in the sound spectrum way... no highs above about 2kHz... (very faint fingerpick noise... maybe)...

Yep; had it written down... a timing problem at :30 that chris already picked out. The lead actually isn't as "dodgy" (:D kewl, I feel so British :D) as the rhythm guitar... Mix came off as a bit heavy around 125Hz (boomy sometimes)... Very capable lead pentatonics there; maybe you'd like to try some blues lead patterns on this for change ups?

Kinda took me back to 1981 for some reason; Foreigner 4, or something. Cool :cool:


Chad
 
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