"Break Free" - a new rock song from ReClaim

Unusual sound and arrangement guys, I liked it a lot. Great guitar sounds throughout, especially the acoustics and the clean electrics.

The whole thing is really well recorded and mixed, bass & drums are working well, nothing to pick on at all here.

Good work!

Nice intro rhythmic percussion on the guitar(s).
Might need a bit more reverb on initial vocal--sounds dry.
Nice melody on "Break Free".
The guitar part sounds a bit "mono"--which contrasts nicely with the "stereo" part on "Break Free".
Think I hear a bit of "break-up" on the "extreme" vocal at 2:08-2:09.
Again nice melody on "Break Free".
Riff at 3:03 seems like it goes on a bit long -- I'm waiting for something to happen.
But it keeps building, and one does get into the rhythm after a while.
Wow--unexpected break at 4:50.
While the rest of the tune is OK, it's kind of anti-climatic and I don't hear you covering any new ground.
[Was wondering to myself if there was going to be more singing or not. Guess not. Oh well].
Overall, I think the first 4.5 minutes are well done, the last part is just OK.
- john

Yeah man, Sounds great. there really isn't much to complain about. The only thing is during the fist part of the bass "outro" the hi hat's sound a bit crunchy, but that may have been by design. It's just a preference. I typically like mine cleaner, but the hats in the recording do work just fine. Good work!

Erik

Just listened to "Seeing Clearly"... that's a freakin' awesome song, dude! I love it! I would only say on that one that there's a little mudiness down low, the guitars could be dialed back slightly, the drums could be a little louder and use some EQ, and the vocals could definately be louder and up-front. So many influences there... It reminds me of some of the better (US) import music that came out of the 80's... Great vocal quality and overall production.

"Beak Free" is good too. Drums have a nice biting quality, and another great vocal performance. I'd say that mix is a little muddy down low like the other tune, and the guitars are just a wee bit too loud relative to the vocals...

Thanks Opaque!

The bass is a 5 string walnut Alembic Epic run through a focusrite twintrak pro and run through two instances of Amplitube 1...one for crunch, one for deep bass. A bit of BBe sonic maximiser though my main out, plus a smidge of maxx bass, and waves l1 limiter. I think there was a mid range band very lightly compressed with sonitus multibanb.

Thanks for noting the earthy feel. I wanted to balance the sounds (esp kick drum) to retain their original acousticness, not twist them into a lot of the kick sound you hear today....the kick often sounds unnatural.

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Great mix and a wonderful earthy sound to it all, cool tune and stunning bass work/sound actually the bass really steals the show here. What bass is that by the way?