critique my bands reggae cover?

[stinger12345]

It's a cover of "Lay Me Down" originally by Dirty Heads w/ Rome. This is the first recording of decent quality that my band has made. We have a drummer, but for quality purposes, I made a midi drum track with garageband. I'd like to know what you think about it, especially the bass. I recorded through the line-out of my LMII into a fastrack pro. The vocals are pretty bad quality, they were recorded by the macbook's built in mic. That said...turn the bass up, and hopefully it's fairly decent!!! onelove

http://www.zshare.net/audio/74648547775e8a9e/

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Well, it doesn't sound like reggae... more like a lukewarm sublime leftovers...

But I checked out the original, and its clear that its not your fault.

The bass is solid, I like the tone & the groove. In fact, I'd say that's the highlight. That and the Dub 101 reverb'd snare at :30-ish. I always love hearing that snare.

Overall I suggest a little less Brad Nowell and a little more Bunny Wailer.

 

[stinger12345]

Thanks for the reply, and I will agree with your crack about it not being reggae, that's definitely bad titling by me... It's the southern cal kind, I push to sound more roots in our originals. Although I wanna hear everything, I'm mostly focused on comments about the bass. This is my first reggae band, and I'd like to know how well I'm doing with the genre.

 

[ebola zaire]

i think its good! the bass sounds great! i think you nailed it. the bass was the best thing

 

[stinger12345]

Thanks for the reply. One of the hardest things I've come across while forming a college reggae band is avoiding sounding too much like sublime. It's tough since they pretty much wrote the book on the punk/reggae style I love. It's been hard to find a singer that isn't trying to be too much like Bradley.