Shakin' the Cold

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Sonic Misfit

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Hi All.

I am a new member to the site and have enjoyed listening to everyone else's stuff and thought that I would contribute. This is an instrumental that I recorded a while back. This is my first attempt to set up a song site on the Web and I must say that the Java Music site appears to be an easy way to get started.

Here is the first thing that I posted. (Please note that things are under construction there and that I will be adding some more as things go along.) The instrumental is called "Shakin' the Cold."

http://www.javamusic.com/Music/whipsawproject

Please let me know your comments or if you have any questions about gear, etc.

Thanks,
Sonic Misfit
 
I listened to "Shakin The Cold". I found it to be a good recording and the musicianship seemed to be a high standard. This song really missed having any vocals (in my opinion). I would try to hook up with a singer if possible to do this song full justice.
 
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Royston,

Thanks for the kind comments. I agree completely with you that vocals would help. One of the crew has promised to write words to this one, but so far he hasn't delivered.

I, just today, posted a few more Whipsaw songs on javamusic. Several have vocals, some are instrumentals.


Regards,
Sonic Misfit
 
I also listened to Shakin the Cold ...
lofi 24kb, so it's tough to give any mix advice ...
but ... :) ...
i think the main guitar solo could have some kind of echo or someting to give it some depth ... I hear a lot of chorus on it ... but that could also be encoding artifacts or my crap soundcard. I think an echo would help set it back in the mix a little more.
Sounds like there's lots of rhythm guitar tracks ... and they're stepping on each other a bit. Could just be my playback of it, though. I think this is actually playing back in mono ... so that could be most of the problem, right there.
Otherwise, cool tune ... I agree that some vocals would make it come alive ... the guitar melody kinda gets old ... and out-of-tune in spots. How did you record the guitar track (amp/guitar?)?
Anyway ... don't take my criticism too seriously ... afterall, I'm not in an ideal listening environment. :)
Thanks for sharing.
 
BigKahuna,

Thanks for listening. I checked out the song in mono and you are right the guitars do collide somewhat. Actually, I think that there may be some phase cancellation when you play it in mono.

In answer to your question about how the guitars were recorded, lead was run through a Mesa Boogie DC-10 with a Shure SM57. The rhythm guitar was run through a Marshall JCM 900 and recorded using another SM57. The chorus that you hear on the lead is a VooDoo Labs Microvibe.

Thanks for the critique.
 
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