ok, you guys want my links, here they are, have a field day

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ok, you guys want my links, here they are, have a field day

Note, they have made it so I can't post my artist name here but it is F A T H E R T I M E. Cut and paste the links below and add that name (with no spaces in between) to the end of them to get to my pages.


My 3 most recent songs are

Too Elusive and Big Fish at mp3.com - both debuted at #1

www.mp3.com/

and

Righteous Girl - currently #1 in R & B

www.artistlaunch.com/

I only post their chart position to get y'all sufficiently fired up, heh.
 
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I'd listen but then you might feel obligated to listen to mine and that would be like gaming ya know so.....................
 
ah, nevahmind ta you, ya Rat

Dobro asked me to post this along with a few others, if you want to not deal with the music, f ya.
 
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Do you have a fiddle player ?

and ... do you want a fiddle player ?
 
Hey F.T. I listened to Righteous Girl...Nice song..Could stand some better production{what you did wasn't bad for demo quality} to make it shine..Things like more instr. coming in and out to create some movement..Slow{very} songs can get a little boring if you don't keep surpiseing the listener... Good work,I enjoyed the listen..


Don
 
'Too Elusive'

Country tunes, commercially viable, usually demand a more focused intro, like as in, one instrument leading stongly, with at most, a secondary instrument mixed well back only complimenting and providing sparse fills against that intro instrument, and that would be very complex for a 'slow' country tune like this.

Now, I appreciate the creative effort you make 'intertwining' the guitars.

Good hook.

Very nice harmony vocals, and good harmony vocals, (especially in country music are 'GOLDEN'), and they should be mixed much louder. The effects mix you have on them is good. These harmony vocals are one of the best elements of the song.

The drums sound like they are inside a box full of big fluffy pillows ...

The bass is not well-defined.

A little too much reverb on your vocal, you don't need all that, your voice is more than good eno0ugh to stand up to being exposed more.

The cymbal just seems to keep ringing all the time, no definition there.

The click track here is annoying, it's no longer a musical instrument at this point in the mix. If you want to use it to reinforce the tempo, then use it very sparingly, like just before the introduction of a new section, building or coming into a new section.

You don't need the clicker over the verse, mix it out of the picture here.

As you have us blissed out at the end of the song ... and the last note is ringing, and ringing and decaying ... and you 'slap' the guitar with the pick, with that little punch at the end. That is a very bad habit, don't EVER do that. You can add that later on another track if you want.

Nice song, I don't hear fiddle in this tune.

I'll listen to the next one.
 
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the recording quality on all these tunes suck, and what do you know??????? I'll betcha know that:p

but sonic quality isn't what makes a hit... we all know that. It's about love, feelings...the vibe you get...like when you connect with nature. ....the ying...the yang....the bada bing...the bada bang.

sometimes music just wants to make you see if you can fly. flap, flap...flap, flap....

the freedom of music... spread your wings... flap, flap....
 
Jesus, mixmkr, I just spit coffee out my nose laughing at your post.:)

Chris
 
Re: ok, you guys want my links, here they are, have a field day

Reformed Comic said:
Too Elusive, Big Fish... Righteous Girl....
Click to expand...
In no particular order - crap, shit... puke....

No - I didn't listen to 'em..... didn't have to!
 
yeah, I'd avoid them if I were you too, Big Bear

it would lower your self esteem.
 
No, just the standards of noise pollution.
 
I listened to Righteous Girl. The song's fine. The delivery's got a kind of broke-down charm but it would be better if it were shorter (it starts to drag a bit after a while), and if you could talk some really good players into backing you it would really start to work.
 
My honest opinion, take it or leave it:

I took somewhere between 30-60 minutes to just kind of scan through your stuff at mp3.com on Saturday because I was trying to figure out what the big flap was about in the cave thread. That was after a fair amount of time using the search function. So while admittedly I didn't spend a great deal of time for the volume of stuff you have there.

So hear it is. I've heard worse home recorded stuff. I've hear better home recorded stuff. Based on your talk in the other thread I figured I was going to hear some magnificent stuff. That was not the case. What occured to me is that your ego is bigger than your skill.

Now keep in mind, I don't claim to be any expert. In fact, I pretty much suck at home recording. That's why I'm here. To learn. Plus my chops on the guitar (which were never great) have deteriorated from even that point. But I was very heavily into music from about the age 11 through about age 20 and achieved a very high level of competence as a trumpet player (haven't played now for 20 years) and vocalist. I can give more credentials if you want. ;).

So my point is, no, I'm no pro, but yes, I can hear some things and I can generally tell something that sounds good from something that doesn't, even if I'm not knowlegable enough to always tell you why it sounds good or not. Though I am learning.

So if you would like an honest critique of one or two of your tunes from one of the resident buffoons, I would be glad to listen to some of your stuff in depth and comment on it. If you can't handle an honest critique, I'm not going to bother. I bear you no grudge at this point as from what I have gathered happened in the past was way before my time (search function). I will give you the same consideration as anyone else. But I refuse to waste my time. Your call. Let me know.
 
I listened to Too Elusive.

A bit of pitchiness in the vocals. Ok more than a bit. The vox overdrove the mic at :56. Other spots too. Vocals are awash in effects, which is more distracting than enhancing in this case.

Some timing issues in the first few seconds of the song.

There is a noticable volume drop from 2:21 - 2:26. I don't believe this was intentional. A swell in volume at 2:58. I believe this was untentional too.

Poor tone on the lead guits.

Lyrics are not very well thought out. Not many good lyrical ideas going on. "I tried to make a change, it could not be arranged?" A word of advice - don't necessarily put a line in a song just because it makes a rhyme. This is kind of a "re-write of a re-write of a re-write" etc.

There is this almost constant "static-type" noise running through the song. Something like a contstant 8khz drone going on. Can't figure out what that is.

I liked the organ during the chorus. Good addition. Harmonies in the second stanza of the second chorus were fine, not sure why they weren't in there before. Many opportunities for good harmony parts that weren't taken.

P.S., I normally don't take the kind of tone in reviews that I did here. But then most people humbly ask for advice. They don't engage in any "cheast beating." You don't deserve the rating you give yourself.
 
well, thanks for the comments

Most of the stuff on my mp3.com page are demos assembled for an FT production competition I'm having with 13 participants, so they could pick their songs (I add vocals).

Sure, I like honest critiques.

You've never seen me state anywhere I'm a great or even good producer. What I have stated is that my music is popular in the OMDworld and that I'm the most famous name in that world. I also think I'm a fine songwriter. :)

A lot of times I get comments about the idiosyncratic nature of my voice yet I think it gets the job done in the same way other voices (Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits) do. My opinion.

Personally I think the one guy's comments were off the mark. I love the lyrics to Too Elusive.
 
Listened to Rightous girl

The opening synth patch is kinda harsh, a little too "saw heavy" to be background for the vox. Something more string oriented may work better.

Your voice is a bit wavering, in the first verse.
The melody could benefit from more percussion. the bass path and bass drum both do the same thing through the whole tune.
Get a real Bass player to do something that travels a little at times.

Too long of a tune without going other places. Cut it too 3 minutes, or get a change up too add.

Man.....that main synth patch is just too harsh for this tune. It kills the mood.

Mix is balanced. Has potential but I am not very up on what a sellable R & B production should sound like.
My suggestions are just opinions.
 
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