new band, new songs, new recordings.

[Steve-O18]

Hello everyone,

My band and I just recently started recording a few songs as a preliminary test for future recording sessions.

Any comments and/or suggestions would be appreciated. Recording quality? The song itself? anything..

thanks,

Steve

(yep, we're still working on the lyrics)

http://www.myspace.com/wartron

[Steve-O18]

Magical bump from page 4 to page 1!

[jgroh]

Hey I like the lead guitar riffs here and there thrown in. And your bass playing sounds fine but, dare I say it? It gets a little "Fieldy clickety clickety" at times.

[lambro]

the drums are undermixed, the guitar is overmixed and the bass is too boomy on the low end

I would remix, start with the drums, get them solid and base every thing around them. The bass needs some low end to be cut you can experiment from 100-250 K or so, the guitars are bit too woofy in the lows as well which just muddys things up

from a performance aspect you need to watch the unintonnated bends on the guitar, get that down. Bend up a half whole, minor 3rd etc with vibrato and then just hammer on to that note to make sure you were not sharp or flat to check yourself, this need to be instinctive. When you come to the not at the end of a run, nail it.

the cross picking in the 2nd tune is also pretty loose, you would be better off strumming an octave slide for that chromatic run, the guitar tone is shrill on the top end, warm it up on the top

keep at it - they are both workable ideas.

[Steve-O18]

Thanks for the really precise commentary, I appreciate it!

I'll have to agree with most, if not all, of what you've highlighted. It was a first mixing experiencing for all of us and we found it to be a lot more challenging than we expected. We had limit resources to work with and our general inexperience proved to create headaches more than anything.

We've decided to focus on writing all our material and go into an actual studio after. If we choose to go through with it at that point. It was counter productive and cut into our rehearsal time anyway

Those were all valid points you brought up and I'll make some notes for if we ever decide to record ourselves again.

Steve