New alt rock song "Holiday"

Any comments on my song "Holiday" would be appreciated. It's a bit of an alt rock, maybe grunge tune recorded with my Digitech GNX4 and Sonar 7.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Holiday

Thanks
Robert Anthony

Hi Robert, first off I really like this tune! Kind of a dark grungy feel (in a good way), One thing that caught my ear though was the high hat sounded a little hot particuarly in the chourus. When I saw the title Holiday I was expecting a warm and fuzzy Christmas tune so this was a cool trip (not that there is anything wrong with warm and fuzzy christmas tunes!) but this was well done.
Richard

Hey guys, thanks for the replies. Yeah, it's a little dark, I can't seem to get away from writing these kinds of songs. Rocky, I did tame the hats a bit in the chorus but I think you're right- they seem to muddy up the drums a little. I still can't get a hold of midi drums, they sounded ok in mixing but when I added compression in the final master bus I couldn't keep it from sounding distant and somewhat over-verbed. Something to do with attack or release; it's something I have to work on.
Spindle, as far as the space, this is the first tune on which I used a template I found on the forum-you've probably seen it, it's from a member Jsarus-here's a link to it Mixing template. It helped me with more efficient sends and routing, and as far as the percieved space, I think it has something to do with a bus that takes the entire mix, one left, one right, with a volume of -INF., and goes not to the master, but to the soundcard. Weird, huh?

Thanks for the listen, lhansen. Yeah, at :08 is a little hammer on, a bit slower than the one repeated on the next phrase. Just quirky things I like to make it sound unique; however, if it sounds out of time, "unique" is just bad, huh? I'll take a fresh listen in a couple of days after I get it out of my head.

Thanks for the input,
Happy Holidays
Robert Anthony

Droddey, thanks for the input. Too much of a chorus send on the hats; I thought it would brighten it up a bit.

Thanks again
Robert Anthony

A RHCP sound, cool guitar with a hunting vocal.


terry

Hang on, let me strap on a set of phones and give an honest opinion.

Blue, this is some dark stuff... And that comes from someone who does things to people for money? Things that are best left "loosely defined..."

The groove and vibe are cool, but this is dark stuff...

You're Robert AND Anthony? That was are really cool song. Very clean mix and vocals were great. I liked lyrics very much. "ambivalent"...what a great word to build a song around!!!