Hi All,
I just finished a new little prog-metal instrumental tune, clocking in at under 3 minutes total including a 30 second "dreamy soundscape" section at the end.  
 
This one was inspired by some practice lines I came up with to get better accustomed to a cheap, used Schecter 7 string guitar I purchased at Christmas.  Yeah, it feels a little different than a Strat!    As per usual the guitar and bass are live and drums are AD2.  Lead synths are Rapture Pro + Z3TA2 during the main sections, and a different Rapture Pro patch + Absynth during the slightly slower middle part.   Also made use of Valhalla Plate as a drum verb and Rematrix Solo for "special FX".
 
As always, comments and suggestions are welcome!   
 
https://soundcloud.com/steve-cocchi/schectvengit
 

That was a wild ride! Great playing and melodies. Guitarriffic! Mix was good imo.

Thanks, Antti!   I'm glad you liked it.  
 

That was 3 minutes well-spent! Nice job with AD2! I doubt that it was intended, but I got some nice Chris Slade feel!

very cool Steve - a wild ride indeed - great mix

Amazing stuff Steve. Once again I'm hugely impressed with the arrangement/writing skill that goes into something like this.

Great stuff Steve!  There's a section around 0:45 where the drums are playing the rhythm used by the guitar/bass and I think your quantize setting might be off a hair. 
 
Mix sounds pretty good as is.
 
Regards,
Dan

John - Thanks!   Two weeks for three minutes worth I guess isn't too bad.   No, I never would have though Chris Slade, but hey, it is rock and to some extent he is rock.   
 
Daryl - Thanks!  I'm glad you enjoyed the ride. 
 
James - Thank you!  This was actually one of my quicker completions, so I appreciate the comments. 
 
Dan - Thanks!   I'll have to give that spot a re-listen.  There's not a lot of hard-quantizing going on, so it's possible that I may have shifted something a little off.  

That song is pretty Crazy in a good way Steve I liked it a lot .
I'm certainly Impressed with the Music you come up with  ...
You definitely deliver some real awesome guitar based tune-age  ....When you got it , you got it
How do you like playing 7 string ?
 
all the best ,
 
Kenny

I didn't post this earlier, because I didn't want to appear to hijack the thread and the song is too good for that. But since Kenny brought up the 7-string again, I figured I'd share this video I found. I don't like the song as much, but it's well played, and shows what one musician can do with a DAW (Reaper, in this case).