SONG: Post Fact

Hi,

I've got another new song ready - for your listening pleasure (or not).
As usual, all feedback (good or bad) is gratefully accepted.

It's called "Post Fact"
and you can find it here:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13461283

It features a few synth arpeggiators this time, plus the usual suspects:
Superior drums
Trilian Bass
Omnisphere
Arturia Minimoog
and a real strat and tele through S-Gear amps and Torpedo WOS III Cabinets
 
and all put together in SONAR Platinum

rgds,

Thanks for listening and for the comments Tom.
 
Just a couple of things:
- thanks for the feedback on the Trump content. I didn't want to overdo it. (I can always make a "non vocal snippet" version too)
- I thought the guitars were panned enough in that part. I wanted there to be contrast with the different sections. I get a lot of comments about not panning enough though - so maybe ~I need to rethink this.
- the bass software, so I don't know what kind of strings they used when sampling ;-)
- fair comment on the drum part. I was thinking that things were busy enough, and wanted to keep a "lowish" profile with the drum part.
 
I do appreciate your comments though.

Thanks for listening Dan - and for your comments.
 
The drum beats are actually meant to play a little slower - but I stuck with them. I was thinking along the lines of being a little repetative, and going along with the synth arpeggiators.
 
You know how it gets

Pretty cool and nice sound for my end....almost a tad flavor of RHCP around 3:30ish I felt...cool stuff throughout....nice gtr work.  ;o)   thx for share
 

Thanks a lot for listening wookie, bass an daryl - and for your comments!
 

and the middle 8 is perhaps a little more than 8 bars

It's nowhere near 8 bars, and as a matter of fact it doesn't even follow bars. It's just the arpeggiator running amok with a little keyboard input (and some background noises)

Thanks for listening string jammer - and for the comments.
Do you mean the melody line at the beginning? I'm pretty sure I checked this in Melodyne - because I thought it sounded a little out, and it was in tune.
I just put it down to "one of those things" - because sometimes I hear bass notes out of tune...

Hi Steve - thanks a lot for listening and for the nice comments! ;-)

Hi Olivier,

Thanks a lot for listening - "non technical" comments are very welcome too! ;-)

John, this is pretty cool - love you playing. Very nice.

jbraner
Rob - you are the first person to suggest that the drums should maybe be *more* busy ;-) Is that what you mean by "real maniac on drums"? I know the drum part is a little busy (as many have said) but I feel that it really pushed things along with the arpeggiated synths. ;-)

the drums are busy enough as they are, what I was trying to say was more along the line of how it would sound if such a maniac groove ;-) would sound if a real maniac was on it i.e. introducing all these subtle variations just by playing it live vs the perfectness of the programmed version.
 
having said that pls don't go off listening to my stuff because what you find is dated and also all programmed. I invested most of my time in the past year (almost 2 years now!) in writing and testing material live with a band ... so we ourselves got a big challenge ahead i.e. capturing that now as we finally get down to recording these 12 tracks. last time we failed big time - while we could get the sound, we could not get the performance, so we ended up using MIDI material, loops and sample libs ... meanwhile we forged that project into a real band, so fingers crossed it'll work this time ...
 

jbraner
I bet it would be great with a real drummer and bass player - but they would bnever fit in my "closet studio" ;-)
 
I always save these things in case opportunities come up - like replacing parts with real instruments 9or even re-recording everything)

 
might get back to you on something like that. I sense a shortage of skilled 6 string heroes in my vicinity, in case you are interested in the occasional collaboration ?

Very cool stuff here, John - lots to like. The one thing that strikes me when the heavier crunch guitars play (0:43-1:15 or so), there's some fizz/highmid happening that could be lowered to make the guitars less harsh. Not the distortion, but the q of it. .02 for your consideration. Rock on.