2016/05/18 20:34:13
SilkTone
I have a huge number of unfinished songs all over my hard drive. Not sure why I find the last 10% to be so hard to do. But here is one I actually finished about 10 years ago:
 
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Disclaimers: I'm not a songwriter, singer, producer, sound, mixing or mastering engineer. I write non-music software during the day so don't expect anything good musically.
2016/05/18 20:44:45
emeraldsoul
What, you don't work in marketing?  :)
 
I liked your song structure. Organ used very tastefully, vocals coming in at slightly unusual times - not predictable - kind of got an early Pink Floyd vibe from the overall arrangement.
 
Very nice! I'd look at your cymbals, something is making them less pristine/clear and more flangey than I'd go for. The rest of your mix seems pretty solid, nice separation of elements.
 
And I can totally relate to having dozens of partially finished songs!
 
 
 
cheers,
-Tom
2016/05/19 19:56:19
SilkTone
Thanks for taking a listen Tom!
 
I'll check what's up with the cymbals. I sent it through LANDR before uploading so maybe they added some "sizzle" or something that made the cymbals a bit flangey since I don't have a lot of processing on it.
2016/05/19 20:29:01
eph221
The guitar lead that comes in is a little loud but otherwise I really like it. :D
2016/05/20 14:13:20
Wookiee
Well at least you were upfront about your efforts.  Works here, very little to crit really, I do wonder if it might be a tad over compressed/limited.   Thanks for sharing and share some more
2016/05/23 14:51:19
stevec
I dunno, sounds pretty good here.    It does seem to have a Pink Floyd-ish vibe as mentioned above that I think works well.  I like it!   The arrangement really suits the song and the vocals are nicely intelligible.  Loved some of those chord changes too...
 
I can also identify with the half (or less) finished songs thing - I've got more incomplete than complete!   So if this is one of the rarer cases, I think you need to finish more of them.   
2016/05/23 20:06:28
dcumpian
Nice one Steve! I would suggest panning the lead guitar out of the way of the vocals, and maybe adding a delay panned opposite side.
 
The rest of this mix is pretty good, everything sits pretty well.
 
I think the flangey cymbals are an artifact of Landr followed by Soundcloud compression.
 
Regards,
Dan
2016/05/23 20:27:34
SilkTone
Thanks for all the feedback, very encouraging! I'll try out some of the suggested changes and see how that works.
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