New Song - with - BFD2

Hey Max, Sorry to hear of your misfortune . Glad you're past it. Good song. The drums sound good. I wouldn't mind them a tid bit louder. I like the vocals too;. not too reverby or distant. Please tell me that is a picture of you with the five stacker.

Rhyno

Geeezz Max, I know the feeling..my home was broken into twice, years ago and all my guitars were taken, some irreplaceable... You know these things always work out eventually..not in your hands ya know... Anyways, this song is quite a rocker..don't ask me to critique drums man! High energy tune, and the mix sounded fine to me pal.

Its surprising how something like a robbery is still an intensely personal violation. I remember how I felt on those occasions when something had been stolen from me.

Great lyrics. The song was very enjoyable.

Cheers
Shad

Superb job Max, this mix sounds fantastic. This guy is really good, his vocals remind me of the late Chris Whitley, very nice delivery style. Guitar solo is gut-wrenching!
No crits from me, love it.

yeah, I don't hunt animals, but I have a nice gun collection and would have no quams about shooting someone in the face if they broke in to my place...

I enjoyed your song Brian who is called Max :-) you have a distinctive style, and it's one that I like.

Thanks for all the responses!

Thanks Rhyno, I did do another version with the durms louder. Yea that's me quite a few years back. We were headed out to be the warm up band for the "Guess Who" that weekend. Have to tell you a funny storey about it some time.

Bill, thanks for listening. this one still need something, just don't know what. I tried to put the vocals back even with then band. It seems like he is still sticking out some. Thanks for catching that.

Larry, I remember you talking about the guitars. Losses are part of life I guess. Thanks for listening.

Beagle, I see you go to the Christian Song Writer's forums. How do I get there? It would be nice to look around a bit. I think I need an envelope on the bass to lower the volume till the song gets going a little. Thanks for listening.

Shad, thanks for the comments. And thanks for listening.

Finally got a mix with EZ. Drums took about 15min on this one. No way I
could balance each one of them to the exact same levels of everything, just
tried to get close. What are your preferences for these?

BFD2
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=6592455&q=hi

BFD2 remix (drums louder)
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=6601414&q=hi

EZ mix (15 min to convert the BFD drums to EZ-Nashville - man that was EZ!)
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=6196235&q=hi

Any more ideas?

Thanks again,
Max Arwood

I see you go to the Christian Song Writer's forums. How do I get there? It would be nice to look around a bit.

Hey, Max! You should be able to just click on that link in my sig and it will take you to the forum. then just have a look around or sign up! introduce yourself in the "meet the gang" forum and tell 'em I sent you! I'm one of the mods there.

Duh!! I did not see it on your sig. Read it on your Beagle sound.com.

Max Arwood

James, thanks for listening. Still playing with the song a little. After I did the EZ-REmix, I'm liking it better. I guess BFD is so powerful, I can get a good set of drums all out of whack . Still got lots to learn about BFD2. I think I might like S2 more. Have to see when it comes out. I hope it is set up like EZ. I never liked the S1 interface.

Rockyrose, thanks for listening.

Robby, sure liked your new stuff. Hope you keep getting inspired! These recording are for my friend Brian Sherwood. I met him through the last big project I did. They hired him to lay down a few guitar tracks. Nice gun collection hum......... nah. They will get what they deserve in the end anyway.

Hey Tom! Thanks for listening. I though I like the drums too. Till I did a version with EZ-Nashville. The BFD too about 4 hours, the EZ took about 15 min. Still don't know what I'm doing with DBF2. It sure has some bells and whistles, just got to figure it out.

No How - Thanks for listening. I wish that was me singing. That's my friend Brian. I'm trying to help him do a CD. Got a couple of songs finished so far.



Max Arwood

Thanks for listening. Brian has been great fun to work with. Hope I can bring his musical excitement to the listeners. I hope to mix his CD good enough to get the mix out of the listeners way so they can focus on the music and message. Hey, I really liked your "Opening Segment" Love that synth at the front and how the guitar and drums come in - pow! Nice varity of stuff you have on SoundClick!

Max Arwood

Thanks Max. The 'synth' is actually a patch on my Zoom 505II, pedal. It's one of those pretty worthless patches for guitar, but it worked for what I was looking for that song.

Janet, Thanks for listening. I was working on this CD then had too much personal stuff going on. So I hope I'm back to it now!! Hope to finish it this summer.


Jon, You know it does not matter where stuff comes from of what plug you use just so it sounds good. And this was just what you needed! - Zoom 505II, pedal!

Max Arwood

Troy thanks for listening.
Nice guitar tone on "Last Breath" VERY good! You should try to duplicate this tone in some of the other songs!!! And that Easter Sunday is really nice. Is that you one the piano?

Mark, thanks for the comments! I'm going to try to do 1 song each week or 2. Till I finish this CD. I usually try to mix all the songs and fix something on each song till they are ok (notice I did not say finished - I know better than that!). Trying this a little different. I hope I can make the songs match when I get finished. That is the only thing I worry about doing it this way. That photo of my keyboards is really old!!! I have a K200 and a Motif now. I can do more on either of those than that whole stack, well.... except the MS-20 it was kinda special. But, who wants to spend the the whole 15min break between sets turning knobs and moving patch cords just to get 1 new sound for the next set?

Max Arwood

Max,

I think the BFD2 has more "balls" and also I noticed the acoustic sits differently in that mix than in the EZ mix. I prefer this one for the whole sound, not just the drums.

EZ mix is also more mellow of a mix (which is fine if that's what you're after)

Great tune!

Hi Max,
sorry to hear about your store getting robbed ,
some lowlife vandalized my moto a few weeks after my last song post .....
getting back to feeling the love for people has been hard .....
seems the fella in Dante's basement will attack to keep us honest and try our faith to see if we will stumble
it's has been one of those "one set of footprints in the sand" type of few months for me

regarding the song ,

I have to say you are one tallented musician / producer ,
you always post some real top notch songs and mixes...

Brian is a fortunate musician to have you in his corner
this song is so well writen and performed , and I love the feel and meter of the vox in the verse
gtrs also sound fantastic

I listened to all three versions of the song....each seem so different in subtle ways
as mentioned before a few places had some dueling hight frequencys with the cymbals and high end ....
tough call on what adjustments ..you will need to make .....
you are soo close to being there .....
it would take me a few hundred more listens to be able to give you any thing that would resemble intelegent constructive feedback ....

I'm just glad to have had this opportunity to have chatted with you Max

Kenny