Rock Experimental

[TyDrummer]

Hey.. check out some new music..

http://purevolume.com/somewherebetween

Works in progress:smash:

[CantBuyAThrill]

Drums sounded nice. To a guitarist's ears at least. They didn't sound poorly produced at all, and though they weren't totally perfectly produced, they certainly were very well done. The guitar and vocals were both weak. For guitar, the sound was so increadibly thin it just felt like really poor distortion just clogging up the music. I liked your influences and such, and the sound you seem to be going for, but that guitar needs to get some bass to it. Not "chugga chugga metal" sound, just something that fills out the sound, rather than feeling like bad distortion. It was a bit better on the 2nd track, but only a bit. The bass on the first track kind of helped to fill things out, but hardly enough to compensate for the guitar's tone/sound.

The vocals were awfully weak. They reminded me of Weird Al or something. They need some training or development or something, or maybe a different set of vocal chords to take their place.

Don't take any of this the wrong way- it's all intended to be constructive criticism. Good luck.

Oh, and would you mind checking out my thread in this forum, it's the one titled "Need help choosing a vocalist..." I hate having to ask people to do that, but I'd really appreciate it.

[TyDrummer]

Thanks for the good input. Don't worry, we don't actually have a vocalist, so the vocals right now are just us foolin around w/ lyrics until we've got someone who knows what they are doing for that. There is no bass in the 2nd track also (just a note).

To me, the guitar doesn't sound that weak, though I think it could be made a bit stronger compared to the drums. Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll check out the thread now :cool:

Edit: For the tone of the guitar, do you think it has too much frequency? (My guitarist is wondering if that was your criticism) are u sure u have decent speakers? :P

[Popup-Box]

Hey.. check out some new music..

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Works in progress:smash:

The Cleanser. Very heavy beginning. Reminds me of Black Sabbath. I enjoy the playing, and the vocalist has something I like. He sounds very natural. Fits the setting. The guitar solo was interesting. Sounded like a talented guitarist, but
it's important not to sound like a machine too.

Listening to Demo Improvisation now. It's played for 2 minutes soon. Can't complain about the playing really, but it's very... monotonous - almost no variation.

3 and a half minutes now. I've heard both Ballroom Blitz and Van Halen tendencies. However, the variation is still not very dominant. How about playing some melodies in between? Not rely entirely on heavy power chords.

Again. The playing is not bad - it's very consistent actually, but do more about the CREATIVITY.

EDIT: I see complaints about the sound in the previous post. Well, I didn't think of the sound as particularly weak. That said, I'm not an expert on sound and tone either. I think it's more important to focus on the actual song, writing and playing, creativity and technique.

So, if I was to decide whether you'd enhance the guitar sound or do something about the creativity, I'd go for the latter.

[TyDrummer]

Thanks for your input. Yeah the improvisation wasn't planned out. Hence the title, but from it we're thinking of keeping a few parts and just organizing it into an instrumental. I'm surprised you didn't mind the singing - it is my singing and Ive never sang vocals before... Personally, I think we need a real vocalist :P Thanks a lot for the comment. :)

[CantBuyAThrill]

Edit: For the tone of the guitar, do you think it has too much frequency? (My guitarist is wondering if that was your criticism) are u sure u have decent speakers? :P

I don't exactly know what you mean by "too much frequency", but there is too much "High" and "Mid/Contour" and not enough "Low" for the equalization, or at least that's how it's sounding to me. What kind of a setup was he using to record? And what settings on the amp/guitar? (As for settings, to the best of his memory is fine) The more specific the better, though on the equipment: guitar, pickups, amp, effects... The clean sound was OK- the effect was a nice touch, as well (was that Flange or Phasing?)

Also, after listening to it a second time, the vocals on "The Chaser" are only really intolerable for the verse parts. Otherwise, when there's more than one vocal track down, I can stand it. It's all subjective, though. Even the guitar stuff- if that's what you're aiming for, that's all fine, but personally, I would suggest working on equalization and other settings for his distorted/overdriven sound.

Yeah, my speakers are fine. I am definately not an expert on this kind of thing, but I am a guitarist who has done some work in the area (however novice), and I know what sounds good and what needs adjustment, at least to my personal taste.

[TyDrummer]

My brother was using a flange effect. Today we are re-doing the recording, we had settings for a very high contour (Probably because of my bro playing van halen) So we've fixed up that, the drum track is down and the guitar is being done as im typing this. The vocals are gonna be redone, whether or not they'll be much better isn't for sure yet, but we're gonna try lol... ill post when it's updated. thanks again for your responses. :chug:

[TyDrummer]

We've updated our space and changed the name, check it out... we're gonna be uploading two new tracks soon! We also got into the top 10 charts for classic rock (unsigned artists) somehow.. :wave:

http://purevolume.com/somewherebetween