Alright, enough feepy acoustic stuff...time for some midtempo rock

Posted on Jan 13, 2007 03:02 am
thermocaster
Appenine
Member Since: Dec 13, 2004

I'm in an unusual period of musical productivity...finally getting to record all the songs I've written over the last 6 months. Thanks for your patience and your willingness to listen and critique!

Here's the lineup:

Jilt - Located in my profile. Wrote this in a rather depressed state as an acoustic song, but it seems to work better in electric format. The original guitar parts and vocal were recorded about three months ago, but I've added some overdubs.

Strange Sensation - This is about as "heavy" as I get. Located on my SoundClick page, which is at www.soundclick.com/galenclavio . I've been struggling with this mix the most of all of them.

Brightly Falling Rain - Okay, so this one actually *is* feepy acoustic stuff. Also located in my profile.

Any and all comments, criticisms, compliments, or what have you, are extremely welcome.

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Noize2u
Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Jan 13, 2007 07:47 pm

I liked the tune, kind o had a touch of Stones to it. Vague but there. I liked the progression well, I think that was part of the Stones feel to it. My only tweaks would be to bring the bass up a little punchier and work over the drum part. The drums need a bit more variety to them, which I'm sure you probably were thinking of.The lead at first comes in a little strong with that heavy distortion, and again ends with the heavy distortion. I would probably lower the level on that a bit as it kind of jumps out. Other then that its pretty cool really.

Brightly Falling Rain. Nice, really nice. Those drums again sound very good, nice and distant feel to them. You got your vocal sitting perfect in this one. It all blends very well together. Cant complain about a thing there. Oh ya, the harmonica, nice touch indeed. That is one huge reverb on there.

Strange Sensation. Nice rockin blues thing as you called it. I like the vocal on this one, interesting feel to it. I liked the leads throughout as well. Nice little wah going on there. My only tweak here again would be the bass. Although it is very audible it tends to fade behind a little here and there. I would maybe through EQ and compression try to get it punchier, not really much louder but just punchier to get it to seperate itself from the guitars. Other then that, really nice mix indeed.

olddog
Member
Since: Jul 02, 2003

Jan 13, 2007 11:02 pm

I gave a listen to all 3 songs here and the Strange Sensations on SC. Nice songwriting on all 4. I'm a bit partial to Strange Sensation at the moment, everything I'm listening too and writing right now is on heavier side. Overall I think the songs are well done, could use a bit more punch in the bass & drum variation as Noize noted, but all were a good listen. :)

Dan

Sunny
Member
Since: Nov 19, 2006

Jan 14, 2007 10:28 pm

Feels like the low end is a bit muddy and that the bass gets lost. Otherwise quite good.

thermocaster
Appenine
Member
Since: Dec 13, 2004

Jan 15, 2007 09:41 pm

Thanks for the comments so far, folks. Good to see you, olddog!

Yeah, the bass/drum stuff I'm working on. Jilt will be a bit tougher than the other two in that category, because I recorded it basically as a live track with my Alesis SR-16, and I'm not very good yet at cut & paste with the rhythm tracks in Sonar yet. I'll fool around with it and see what I can come up with.

I'll see what I can do to clear the bass definition up. I was a bit concerned about upping it too much, because all three places i've listened to the songs so far (my studio monitors, the Infiniti system in the car, and on my iPod), the bass has been a bit too prevalent. But I'll try doing some EQ tuning and see what that does.

Noize2u
Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Jan 15, 2007 11:03 pm

AS for the bass, ya it really doesn't need to be louder. Just punchier, compression and EQ will do that for you.