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Janet


Well, I can actually hit the keys pretty hard.  Robby thinks I do all the time.  I'm not sure you'd be able to HEAR them, but I don't have to play all pretty-like all the time. ;)  

awright... down & dirty Janet...

;p hahaaahaaa 

& thanks James & Shawn 4 the listen. :) 

Hi ABeautifulVirus, I must say that was a pretty heavy sounding song...in a way, if some of the heavy guitar crunch was dialed back a bit the voice and acoustic guitar would sound a bit Lennon to me .The acoustic part adds a nice Yin Yang type of musical contrast .You said this was a demo right? pretty ballsy for a demo . Kenny

Well, buddy, this is really good!  I whittled my brain down to one cell and decided to save it 24 years ago.  It is still functioning.  :-)  The movement of the music, riffs, drums, etc is almost hypnotic.  It seems that the drums could maybe have been a bit louder.  That's personal taste, though.  Here's the deal, they lyrics are really good but if I wasn't reading them at the same time I wouldn't have understood any of it.  I know that this genre is like that in many cases but these deserve to be heard.  I don't know how you do that without changing the feel of the tune but if you could I think it would help the tune, IMHO.  Either way, it's one that got me to listen 3 times!  That's a good thing.

hey thanks Kenny & Warren a lot for the feedback. Lennon is a huge influence on me so hopefully it rubbed off somewhere :) 

& yeah Warren- there are a ton of tracks on here & i ended up bussing down the drums around 4/5ths way though to save RAM, but the additional layers buried some of the kick and snare to my ears too. the ultra-low tuning also fights for frequency space w/ the kick.  hence this still sounds demo-y to my ears too.

hear ya on the vox. part of it is my stylistic bad habit lol - but like you point out it is also genre-centric. i pulled off all the delay and processing and many layers in the chorus vocals & bridge to contrast against the thick verses, so i think the volume can come up a tad in chorus as well.  i'll play around w/ it more. 

good ears. thanks! i know i should provide earplugs to listeners out of courtesy lol 

-Daren 

Hey, dude, I just noticed your computer setup.  It rocks!  :-)  I too use the tin cans on a string!!

evadianepug


Hey, dude, I just noticed your computer setup.  It rocks!  :-)  I too use the tin cans on a string!!

;p yeah i keep a commodore PET as backup too

my 1st comp was a 64 as back in the 80s i learned basic and some fortran in the 8th grade, nerd that i was/am lol
we used magnetic tape to store programs- would take like 45 minutes to upload a 10 second sequence of stick figures tap dancing across monitor (my tv) screen 

got your alice in chains vibe going on....
maybe a bit of Mastodon in there as well..

i'm hearing what sounds like a lot of input distortion on a lot of the tracks...
the guitars for sure, the drums seem very one dimensional, i think it's the guitar tracks masking a lot of the kick and bass guitar.
i like the tune

Hi Daren, that riff reminds me of Living Colours' Cult of personality.

Rik

thanks batsbrew- yeah there are a ton of tracks on here- a lot were cut close to margin and i bussed some down towards end to save RAM- but the sum of them peaked in some areas which i squashed with a limiter but i should have backtracked to original input and retracked. just kinda got lazy lol 

cool, Rik- l love LC- the opening riff is tripled- one is a mic'd mesa boogie dual rect, another a marshal JCM 2000, and one direct line out of the mb- so a lot of sumptuous distortion overtones kinda like Vernon

Love the grit/riff of the guitars.  To me the real star of the mix are the vocals and the delivery of them. I don't know why but your vox and production of them remind me of OASIS meets the BEATLES.  The mix is a little heavy sounding on my end. But it is a demo and a darn good one.  KUDOS!

Kev