Shredding Xmas Cheer (Too early??)

Shredding XMas Cheer. 
 
Not quite polished yet, but good enough to jam to for 1.5 minutes
 
http://soundcloud.com/m-638/shredding-xmas-cheer
 
Love/Hate/Feedback always welcome
 
Hope everyone is doing well, sorry havent stopped in much lately.

nice work, Mike!  the bass sounds "dull" to me.  it needs some "cojones" - I'd try boosting it in the 80 to 90Hz area and maybe add a transient shaper to it.

love the shredding!

Geno - Thank you.  The drums were Addictive Drums sounds

Beagle - Thanks for the suggestion.  I had two bass tracks, one direct and one miced, the direct one was really compressed, I'll try mixing in more mic and see how that works out.  Thanks for the suggestion

Lynn - Thanks for the listen.  Glad you enjoyed it, sorry for posting Xmas before Thanksgiving, but I didn't know any good Thanksgiving songs to cover :)
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well

very cool Mike - great mix.


and, yes it is too early :)

You lit up my iPad with that nice guitar shred. Nice work!

"Technically" should wait till after next week...
Interesting arrangement.

cool rendition.... and the first official christmas tune of the year....

That was not what I expected to hear... I generally don't care for shredded guitars, but that was fine... I mean really fine...
Killer arrangement/production/performance... sweet tone & touch... Outstanding..

Hey, Mike,
 
Great Christmas instrumental with dynamite playing and killer guitar tone sitting in a nice, punchy rock mix!
 
Cool stuff, buddy, nice work!
Bob

Awesome job mike. The mix sounds great.

I hate you.

(but in a good way)

Robby - Is that like the old "I only hit you because I love you" line? ...wow, flashbacks of my ex-girlfriend. ..(just kidding, she didn't hit me...too often)

Daryl - Thank you for the listen and compliment.  This is actually a debut of sorts of my drumming.  I played some parts, used loops on other parts, and spent alot of time manually fixing the midi from my live drumming, lol.  In hindsite, using loops for the whole thing probably would of been better, just less fun

Danny - thanks a ton for the feedback.  I write and record so many different styles of music, I never really sit down and work out guitar tones for each style.  As you can tell, it's something I should spent a bit of time on.  Your lead tone was great on the song you just posted with Philip. 

Incidentally, I used to play in coverbands and used a POD for my live sound.  Every cover we learned, I tried to match that bands guitar tone real close.  Many times I succeded, but when it comes to my own tones, I get real lazy.

Thanks again

LpMike75


Danny - thanks a ton for the feedback.  I write and record so many different styles of music, I never really sit down and work out guitar tones for each style.  As you can tell, it's something I should spent a bit of time on.  Your lead tone was great on the song you just posted with Philip. 

Incidentally, I used to play in coverbands and used a POD for my live sound.  Every cover we learned, I tried to match that bands guitar tone real close.  Many times I succeded, but when it comes to my own tones, I get real lazy.

Thanks again

No problem Mike. Yeah I know how much you dive into all different styles. It's awesome you do so well with them too. You tones were good on this, honest. I just have this thing (and it very well could be my sensitive ears) where I always try to warm up my lead tones so that they don't pierce or cut as much as my rhythm tones. I don't like my lead tones too chocolatey warm....a little bite is cool, but I hear this sort of....hmmm...the frequency is so high, I can't even type what it sounds like. But this certain high end thing just hits me a certain way when a lead tone has a bit too much bite in it. You were sort of on the border line there. But it did get a bit warmer as the song went on.
 
I try to low pass my lead tones anywhere from 6k to 9k depending on the song, key and feel I'm looking for. It just takes that little bit of rasp out of the tone that we get from using high gain. Thanks again for the kind words on our song, glad you liked the tone there. Great job once again brother. :)
 
-Danny

I have to agree with some of the other comments, in that the guitar was a bit thin. Originally I thought it was just the type of distortion used on the guitar, but I decided to turn it louder and then I realized its not so much thin as it is narrow. I would push the layers wider while leaving the primary lead centered. Otherwise, its sounds really tight.