please critique this rough sketch of a song...

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here is an idea for a groove and some simple changes, just a rough sketch of a future song for my band... please check out my mix. I don't have much to work with, a crappy drum kit (with only one cymbal), a little old Supro amp, a few cheap AKG dynamic mics... three mics on the drums tracked to a Tascam 424, the rest was overdubbed in n-track. The bass is actually a guitar with a pitch shifter plug-in... any feedback is welcome.

 
I'm pretty sure I've heard that song before... good recording for a rough sketch, though.
 
That does sound really familiar. It's got the old beach groove thing going on. I can't place it, but I know I've heard it before.

Again, it's not bad for a rough sketch, but the mix does need some work. The different parts aren't sitting well together.
 
Rokket said:
The different parts aren't sitting well together.
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could you be more specific? Do you mean the guitar lead?

As far as the material, yeah its kind of generic at this point, basically just a goove. It will either get developed more with the band, or thrown away... I think there is a bit of "Born on the Bayou" in there, I'm thinking "swampy".
 
Hi_Flyer said:
could you be more specific? Do you mean the guitar lead?

As far as the material, yeah its kind of generic at this point, basically just a goove. It will either get developed more with the band, or thrown away... I think there is a bit of "Born on the Bayou" in there, I'm thinking "swampy".
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It's tough to describe, and maybe it's just my pc speakers, but everything just seemed to... "jangle" in the mix, not really sit cohesively. The guitar parts were eq'd the same and were fighting for space.

I will listen to it again when I get home on my monitors and see if it's the same there. It may be my pc speakers here at work. They are pretty cheap.
 
I didn't spend much time on the guitar lead, that was kind of an afterthought.

I was trying to double the rhythm parts, and they're panned hard to each side... Would you normally EQ each guitar differently in this situation?
 
Cool...sounds like it belongs in a Quentin Tarrentino (sp?) movie.
It sounds like the mix is going thru a speaker oscillator? Maybe it's just me. Otherwise, the mix really fits that genre of music.
 
there is tremolo on the guitar, is that what you mean?
 
Maybe...if so, it seems to affect the whole mix. Are you using a compressor across the whole mix? If so, that may be the culprit...otherwise I'm not sure.
 
Put some slapback delay on the snare man!

The bassguitar doesn't provide that raw fundement of you mix, but I see you downtune your guitar... =) Hmm

I'm getting a strange urge to watch Pulp Fiction tonight....

cya!
 
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