Two new songs... Opinions?

bassman1185 · #1 05-19-2009, 07:35 AM

Hey, my band just put up two new songs this week. I would love it if you would check them out at www.myspace.com/calvaryrock and let me know what you think. The new songs should be the first two that will play, The World Will Wait and This Hope We Have. We recorded everything ourselves on Garageband.

Edit: We are a hardcore band with some mild screamo tendancies, so just be aware of that.

bassman1185 · #2 05-20-2009, 07:24 AM

Anybody?

chrapladm · #3 05-20-2009, 07:49 AM

which 2 songs are new

chrapladm · #4 05-20-2009, 08:03 AM

well to be brutally honest My favorite of all the songs was the last 2(if you lived hear by now you'd, perseverance of saints). I think the recoding of both those songs could be alot better. But I am not going to tell you what you should have done and all that. I think it is great that you have some songs on myspace....I dont. But I would try and get them professionally recorded all of them and especially the 2 songs I like. I think with a better recording the songs could be alot better to the ear. The singer is not my cup of tea on the other songs. I like all types of music but when it comes to sreamo style I am more picky. I love Mudvayne's singer and Slipknots because both of the singers have great voices in normal singing and the can scream in tune with the song. I think the vocalists is always the hardest job and the hardest to find for screamo. But the 2 songs I liked the vocalist is pretty good. Just my 2 cents.

bassman1185 · #5 05-20-2009, 08:04 AM

The top two on the player. The titles are "The World Will Wait" and "This Hope We Have."

bassman1185 · #6 05-20-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by chrapladm

well to be brutally honest My favorite of all the songs was the last 2(if you lived hear by now you'd, perseverance of saints). I think the recoding of both those songs could be alot better. But I am not going to tell you what you should have done and all that. I think it is great that you have some songs on myspace....I dont. But I would try and get them professionally recorded all of them and especially the 2 songs I like. I think with a better recording the songs could be alot better to the ear. The singer is not my cup of tea on the other songs. I like all types of music but when it comes to sreamo style I am more picky. I love Mudvayne's singer and Slipknots because both of the singers have great voices in normal singing and the can scream in tune with the song. I think the vocalists is always the hardest job and the hardest to find for screamo. But the 2 songs I liked the vocalist is pretty good. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for the input. Those are both older songs. Our singer tends to sound better live than recorded, I think. He seems to have more energy and punch when he's live vs. recorded. The older recordings weren't very good, in large part because we worked with a guy who doesn't listen to a lot of harder music, so the mix was weird and the guitar tones weren't so great.

theunknowndude · #7 05-20-2009, 08:16 AM

sounds pretty good

very different songs from each other though but both good

had to agree with the vocals not quite fitting into the mix with the older stuff but I guess these things can happen!

off topic but by the way every time I see your avatar I keep thinking,... is your rig small or is your wife small... lol

bassman1185 · #8 05-20-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by theunknowndude

sounds pretty good

very different songs from each other though but both good

had to agree with the vocals not quite fitting into the mix with the older stuff but I guess these things can happen!

off topic but by the way every time I see your avatar I keep thinking,... is your rig small or is your wife small... lol

Thanks man. I'm pretty happy with the newer songs.

And in answer to your question, it's my wife that's small. She's 5' even, and my rig consists of two Tech21 B410 cabs and a six-space rack with my Kustom Groove 1200, Symetrix 501 compressor, and Furman power conditioner. It's about 5' 2" all told.

azarias · #9 05-20-2009, 08:30 AM

I think i would only recommend getting the overall levels up a bit.
I am not familiar with Garageband so cant help there.

theunknowndude · #10 05-20-2009, 08:32 AM

nice rig for nice music

keep up the good work, I like that can hear the bass quite clearly in your songs!

bassman1185 · #11 05-20-2009, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by azarias

I think i would only recommend getting the overall levels up a bit.
I am not familiar with Garageband so cant help there.

Yeah, I put them on my iPod, and I realized that I needed to boost them up a lot via iTunes to get the levels where they should be to be consistant with other songs.

bassman1185 · #12 05-20-2009, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by theunknowndude

nice rig for nice music

keep up the good work, I like that can hear the bass quite clearly in your songs!

Thanks a lot. If you're interested at all, I recorded three lines into the computer: One clean, pre-everything DI, one post pedalboard DI, and my cab mic'ed with an SM57. I was running my VT at a fairly mild grit all the time, and the bigger, doomier parts had my HBE Hematoma set for a medium-gain distortion. We added some thick, high-gain distortion to the clean DI signal via ReValver, which helped make everything sit in the mix a lot better.

theunknowndude · #13 05-20-2009, 08:43 AM

nice way of doing it!

I need to try and record my band again, used the Zoom H4 and it sounded ok, but bass was muddied as heck, guitar sounded blah and the drums just overpowered it,... I guess thats the problem of trying to do a live take in a small room though!