The Fixed

[Snak3]

well thas my bands name, we are atill new, we have 2 songs online and other 2 thats we havent put them on our page

www.myspace.com/thefixedband

Any comments?

O: we p[layed our first gig as a band yesterday

[SugarCoatedSour]

I'd listen to it but its a bad link.

[mmfan486]

Honestly this sounds like it could be so much better if you took some time to record it properly; it's very much a rough and ready demo that doesn't do much at all. To be honest I thought they would have sounded better if the guitars were on clean, I couldn't hear the bass at all and on the first track it took me a while to work out which of the rather odd collection of noises I could hear were the vocals, on the second one they sounded dreadful.

Sorry, this has been very negative so far. At least you're having a go and have got some stuff down. Here's some stuff you can try: First, dial up some middle on your EQ, and reduce the treble and bass. That goes for guitars and bass. This helps the sound cut through the mix in a live situation; I'm assuming it was recorded live. Once you've got a record company backing you up and you're in a studio with a professional engineer, you can do what you like with your EQ as the engineer will balance the whole thing out. But when the recording depends on being able to hear all the instruments at the same time, it's useful to make sure all the sounds are cutting through.

Second, you need to try and balance things out a bit more because at times all I could hear was the drums. The song depends on being able to hear the vocals, plain and simple, and that isn't going to happen if the rest of the band play as loud as they can. Try this: Get your singer to sing on his own and put the speaker up as loud as you can without feedback. Balance the drums to this; if these means the drummer has to play down a bit then that's what you'll have to do. Then balance the rest of the instruments with the drums. You should have a fairly good live sound now that you can record coherently through.

Again, I apologise for the negative nature of this post as it's not my place to berate a band that's only been together a couple of months. But I hope you found my tips helpful.

[The Musician]

Vocals on the first one...are basically non-existant. Cool little riff you have, but a better effect on it maybe better. Drums fit nicely, but I could hardly hear the bass. Then whatever the hell that thing at 1:40 was...and 2:10ish, that DDUHHH woosh thing...I don't know, if it was a better recording it might've sounded good but it just adds another noise to it.

The second one doesn't play for me, MySpace hates me today it seems.

[Snak3]

thanks all of you for your advice, we are still trying to figure out how to do a decent home recording, also we are planning to go to a studio when we have more songs, so its worth the trip :).. thanks agasin for the advice