First songs recorded and edited in Sonar 3.0

Wow, excellent guitar playing. I'm listening to Thanksgiving Jam, great song. On the mixing, the drums are sitting up front too much, and they detract from the guitar. October is another wonderful song. You are obviously a very accomplished guitarist! On October, everything is "bunched" up. It needs to be "spread" out a bit, and again the drums are sitting too far up front. Perhaps panning the rhythm guitar over one way or the other, and leave the lead in the middle. All in all, a little practice with the mixing, and I think we are going to have another forum superstar!

Mitch,
I listened to almost all of the songs you had on Songramp and have to agree, you play some mean guitar dude. Sounds like you need to flesh some of this stuff out, add vox etc.
Other than than that, like all of us you are presented with so many choices in S3P, it becomes one gigantic learning curve. Keep postin'.....we'll keep listening.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/contrahellusmusic.htm

One more thing, Contrahell. I totally agree that some of my tunes scream for vox. I'm not very good at lyrics however. If anyone would like to write some lyrics to my tunes, please take a stab at it. I'd love to put them on my tracks with full songwriting credit to the lyricist, of course.
Mitch

I listened to "October". Very good playing, and the mixing was very clean and clear.

For my taste the lead guitar sounded a bit "distant" - maybe a wee bit less reverb?

Otherwise no major comments. It might be cool to vary the arrangement/instrumentation a bit more throughout the track - build it up and break it down a bit?

What about a middle section with a different guitar sound, e.g. clean, to bring a different "voice" in to play?

Good stuff.

Cheers

AB

Thanks for the complements! Progresso and Water is a favorite of mine too. I just love playing that piece.
Mitch

I also listened to about half the song you have listed on that site. And you're guitar playing is well passed anything I can do. I noticed that at times the mix seems to really favor particular instruments....on the Am7 groove the solo might have been a little too upfront. The foundation and punch of this song seems to get lost under that solo....(great solo by the way). I think I would bring that solo down just a touch..... Also perhaps more of a fade at the end.

Overall...some great playing here. I would just work on making sure your mixes dont crowd together.

Lee

Stu works pro bono if I am not mistaken.....

ORIGINAL: rgfors

I just went back to your site and listened to your songs again. I have a new favorite today, Progresso and Water...

edit: I left out new...

Randy....that is a FAV of mine also !!!!
LOL
Greets
ROlo.

Wow,
How did this thread come up? It's almost exactly 1 year old!!! Very cool of you guys to search for this and comment. I'm certainly appreciative of the listens and the great feedback. These songs were recorded over a year ago and my skills as a novice home studio engineer have improved exponentially since. Anyway, October was recorded with my ovation, mic'd with a Rode NT-1 into a FW410. The electrics were recorded with my PRS Cu24 through a Line 6 AX2212 and mic'd with the same Rode. Same thing with Thanksgiving Jam. Toby, you are right, a hollowbody would do much justice to this song, but I didn't have one until July (a gift from my wife). One day I may go back and re-record with the PRS HBII, but I don't like going back and re-recording my solos since they are improvised at the time of the recording and I feel that I may miss the spontinaety of it. Rolo, I still love Progresso and Water....
Mitch

Listened to Progresso and Water. Absolutey beautiful. Some of the most tasty acoustic work I've heard in some time.