Two New Songs, completely different styles.

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I just posted up two new songs and there are two other that I put up fairly recently. The first 4 are the new ones.

Tune 1 "Girls On Hold" is solid rock blues
Tune 2 "A Million Miles" is somewhere in between 80s rock, tribal, and electronica.
Tune 3 "Being Alone" is Blues/Rock, this I posted before
Tune 4 "Honey" is Country Rock. Also posted before

Have a listen. Give me your thoughts. Have a great long weekend everybody.

http://www.myspace.com/danieljamessmall

Girls on Hold was all live except for the vocals. The synth is a Moog. The first electric guitar is a Schecter running through a tremolo pedal, and tube works amp and recorded with an SM57 and Rane MS1B amp.

The second electric is a Danelectro with a Fender head and distortion running through a half stack, and recorded with an sm57 through a mackie DFX board pre.

Damn I'm out of time, the wife is yelling I'll explain the rest of the details if anyone cares. Just ask.

Bass is a Fender P Bass, Mexican. Through the Mackie.
 
Girls on Hold: nice lyrics, ha ha... but the bass is buried a bit in the mix, not much definition. Other than that, I like the guitar tones you are getting. Maybe a tad too much verb, they sound a bit distant, and when the right guitar is playing sparsely it makes the mix seem a tad lobsided.

A Million Miles: Different, but still catchy. I am not even sure what to compare it to. My only nit is the drums sound fake. They need a little more body. They are not real, are they?

Being Alone: I can already see that you don't lock yourself into a readily identifable genre. I really liked this tune. No nits from me here. I think this is a song style you are more comfortable with.

Honey: nice country tune here. The lead guitar is a bit loud in the intro, but otherwise, really nice tune.

That's all I have time for. My only suggestion for you is to look a bit at ending your tunes. The first couple it seemed like you got to a point where you done, but not sure how to stop.

Overall, really nice stuff you have here.
 
Rokket said:
Girls on Hold: nice lyrics, ha ha... but the bass is buried a bit in the mix, not much definition. Other than that, I like the guitar tones you are getting. Maybe a tad too much verb, they sound a bit distant, and when the right guitar is playing sparsely it makes the mix seem a tad lobsided.

A Million Miles: Different, but still catchy. I am not even sure what to compare it to. My only nit is the drums sound fake. They need a little more body. They are not real, are they?

Being Alone: I can already see that you don't lock yourself into a readily identifable genre. I really liked this tune. No nits from me here. I think this is a song style you are more comfortable with.

Honey: nice country tune here. The lead guitar is a bit loud in the intro, but otherwise, really nice tune.

That's all I have time for. My only suggestion for you is to look a bit at ending your tunes. The first couple it seemed like you got to a point where you done, but not sure how to stop.

Overall, really nice stuff you have here.
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Great thoughts. Sometimes when you work so long and hard on something you start to lose focus on the whole. You're dead on with the guitar mix on Girls on Hold, and yes the bass is buried. I need a better Bass preamp, it makes the bass mushy on a lot of mixes. I also turned on the wrong input for the kick drum track and had to do some magic with the drum mix to bring it back out. I didn't even realize for like a week and I kept turning up the kick track and I eventually noticed it was actually a clone of an overhead.

And yes those are fake drums on A Million Miles. It's actually a kick ass JoMoX analog drum machine. Neat sounds. I was going for that sound. I think it's cool. It gives the tune a whole different character.

I'll have to do a specific internet remix on Honey. It actually sounds good in the studio and in my cars. But with computer speakers you tend to get more high end like lead.

Thanks a lot for the intense listen. It helps. I didn't comment on everything, but I study these threads use them when I mix. I appreciate it.
 
Hey Underground,

really good songs you've got there! OK recordings could be better, but we're all learning here and they're still pretty good. Songwriting's great, singing's really good..and what I find good is that the songs are quite different from each other. Keep 'em coming;)

Cheers
Joe
 
thanks, the recordings are all done in my finished "studio" basement. The biggest problems I have are isolation, lack of corner treatment for ringing echoes, lack of vocal booth, shitty drums, and low grade/midgrade preamps and mics. Other than THAT, I think I do OK with what I have. I used SM57's on most guitars you'll hear. I direct in the bass. The vocals are usually done on one of 4 mics, either an M Audio Luna, AT4040, GT 55, or M AUdio Nova. I run that through either the M Audio DMP3, sometimes the LA-610, and occasionally even through the mackie mixer.

Drums always give me the biggest problems with spiking or lacking kick or snare definition. Too much cymbal, etc etc.

Thanks for taking the time on my songs. I'll get there eventually with my gear.
 
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