Unhappily Ever After :----(((

Neat tune. Very good vocals. Your voice is unique and I remember it from a while ago.

My only criticism is that the steel guitar sounds like loops and is over used throughout the song.

Good job.

Nice tune. Does Indie mean it was mastered by Indie? It has a real professional quality for sure. Wish I could get that quality out of my laptop. Very well balanced song. Thanks for sharing!

guitar player,

I've been recording for a while, but i started with a soundblaster and a pc mic that plugged into the back of that. the recording process became easier for me after I bought some decent monitors. less guess work... Thanks for the listen

opensky,

damn, you guys are good in this forum. No freakin secrets here. hehe -- The disk I used had some steel guitar phrases, so I just chopped them up to fit into the song. The drums are indeed Drums on demand. I usually create my drums using hits and building my own beats, I thought it would be easier to use something like drums on demand. Honestly I don't know if I will use them again, just because It wasnt really that much less work to get them sounding the way I wanted. I had to add another kick, toms, cymbals, etc. i do like the professional sound, but it is quite generic. I wanted a natural sounding kit for this tune, so it worked out for this song.

Anyway, thanks for the comments and I'm loving the Lounge Lizard :-))

Very nice! Mix, performance and overall sound is very polished. Lyrics work well also. You’ve got an interesting (in a good way) voice – it’s very “identifiable” and as someone else mentioned, I know I’ve heard some of your other material – all very good. My little two-cent comment – some harmony would sound real sweet in there.

Enjoyed it – a fun listen – thanks

Hey Toy, been a real long time!

This one is really different for you; kind of a Wilco/Tweedy track. You've do a great job with it. I think you've put it together perfectly.

Vocals a great. Looking forward to hearing more of your new material.

Nice work there. Very well produced. I don't have a sub, but it sounded like it might be a little overwhelming on the low end for folks with good bass reproduction, but it's hard to say, just a guess. On my monitors it sounded very nice and on my sanity check smaller monitors, a sign of a good mix. The tune was nice as well. Maybe kinda country I guess, but could just as well have been something like from a band like The Wallflowers as well.

I never had this skill.. Controlling every second in the song, connecting the sections, parts perfectly.. See your drum, vocal. bass part, when you run for other section in the song, all elements support each other dandily.. I hope this is experience matter, that i will have after some time

Nice work there. Very well produced. I don't have a sub, but it sounded like it might be a little overwhelming on the low end for folks with good bass reproduction, but it's hard to say, just a guess. On my monitors it sounded very nice and on my sanity check smaller monitors, a sign of a good mix. The tune was nice as well. Maybe kinda country I guess, but could just as well have been something like from a band like The Wallflowers as well.


Dean,

I just have to talk about my monitors. :-))

I used to have a pair of audix 1A's... well I still have them but I dont use them any more. I'd pair those with some JBL 6200's (i think that's the model) and I'd have to go back and forth between those two monitors and my headphones. Very tedious to mix. Lots of guess work. But then I was fortunate enough to get the JBL 4328p's. I went into guitar center and just wanted some kind of RTA so i could get the guess work under control and the rep upsold me on the JBL speakers. Whats cool about them is that they tune to your room. It even has a remote so you can switch off the RTA thing off, so you can cross reference to be sure.

Not only are good monitors good for mix down, but also for getting a good sound going in, because you can actually hear what sound your recording. I would recommend these to anyone.

http://mixonline.com/products/review/audio_jbl_lsrp_selfpowered/

I say all this now, but my next mix will probably sound like ****! hehe


Rolfcopter,

thanks for the listen, I think I was able to get the frequencies under control on this one, but some will notice it doesn't have a whole lot of frequency going on past 6k. I added some while i was mastering, but didnt like it. What kind of speakers do you have?


Myfavorites

I'm kind of dissapointed with the bass and drum parts. I don't think I nailed it on the bass and the drums didn't groove enough in my opinion during the "i want you to say it" part. I'm usually a better bass player, but bass and drums are only as good as they are to each other. It's passable but I would change it If I could stomach going back to this song, which I cant hehe.

and yes.. It takes time. As you can tell, I'm not satisfied with the song, but it was the best I could do to "get it done" - I only have one song on soundclick, but I've written and recorded probably close to a couple dozen. Just keep putting one foot forward, I haven't heard your music, but never being satisfied, a constant fair self criticism and always going back with a fresh set of ears will help.

The more you make a commitment to something the better it will be, and that goes for just about anything.


toy

Excellent song, Toy. Pedal steel is what gives it its country flavor, otherwise a solid alt/pop tune.
vocals are clean and clear. Drums sound okay, bass perhaps a little lacking in authority. And I love the understated guitar work. Very appealing.
Mark

thanks for the comments all, yes the bass and drums could have been better. I'm going to stick to creating my drum tracks from scratch, cause my bass playing really depends on the feel im getting from the drums. thanks for the listens!

rolfcopter,

i guess I'm sounding like a monitor snob, hehe-I'm not though :-)

Thanks for the bass check, that gives me even more confidence in my monitors. I notched out some frequencies while mixing, which seemed to make it play well on other systems, the bass still does sound like it might overpower with bad freq's, but it i suppose it doesn't.