RATE MY FIRST RECORDING

[PoundinThunder]

sorry for the obnoxious caps lock but its the only way things get seen. my last thread got views but no replies.
i just threw a recording on my myspace. It's my first ever recording. I'm looking for some CONSRTUCTIVE critisism. You can be as mean as you want, as long as i get some advice out of it . i need help seeing where i suck

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thanks in advance

 

[WayneS]

The caps lock, and then the apology for the caps lock isnt going to help your replies either.

There are many, many threads everyday that gets seen and they arent yelling. Perhaps nobody wanted to offer constructive criticism.

 

[PoundinThunder]

well then i dont know what to do then because ive done both. all i wanted was for people to critique my playing and tell me what i need to work on. i dont see why someone wouldnt want to help out a fellow bassist but maybe im just different and would offer constructive critisism to anyone who asked.

 

[heroincredible]

Your other thread is still on the first page (in fact only three threads down). I hate to say this, but take at look at the etiquette of bumping thread thats stickied.

 

[PoundinThunder]

wow people can come in here to tell me whats wrong with my thread but not whats wrong with my playing. i dont get it, i really dont

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Listening to it now. I love your "genre": "Funk / Ambient / Crunk"

I can just imagine some band with bootsy, some crazed circut bender, and lil'John yelling YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

Anywho..... Nice bass line imo. Really fits the song.

You really need to change the background tho. It's do visually noisy to be a background. Needs more black-space or something, considering that you chose white as the font color.

 

[PoundinThunder]

thanks yeah, i knw that the background isnt too easy on the eyes but im a bit lazy to change it. but yeah thanks for the compliment. its my first recording and i was messing around with how i could do an all bass song. i think it came out decent.

edit- changed it

 

[The_Robster]

i like it.

 

[PoundinThunder]

thank you, anything i should try to fix or change?

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Nice new background It actually fits the music in a trippy kinda way....

 

[PoundinThunder]

haha thanks.

 

[Wespe]

I think the song is awesome, the recording/tone itself could actually be better to present the song in a more polished way. For solo bass, I think the tone is a little dark/muddy and could be brighter. Just my opinion. Awesome song though, when I first heard it I thought there was singing, but I then I heard it was just bass. Really well constructed melody. Keep writing new stuff.

 

[PoundinThunder]

thanks a lot. yeah the tone is pretty what i can get out of my recorder cuz im not too smart and dont know how to run my amp through the recorder haha. there is a litttle singing at the end, but that was a pure accident, i though the mic was off haha. but yeah thanks again.

 

[JamesM]

i really like it, and pretty good for sum1 who has been playing 4 2 years...keep up the good work

 

[JamesM]

oh and nice Dali? painting in the background

 

[PoundinThunder]

thanks for the compliments everyone. and yeah,Dali is an awesome artist lol.

 

[PoundinThunder]

any more comments rwhatnot?

 

[Tapper]

The playing is OK, but the lack of presence in the recording of it is downright distracting. You need to try running your bass right into your mixer, or run your "headphone out" to your board. If you are not using a mixer, and using a recorder only, try a simple pre amp on the bass and plug that straight in.
To me the music is not "here", but rather "over there"...almost like we're sitting "here", and the music is out in the hall....not a reverb or delay issue, but one of Presence.
I have found the inexpensive ART tube preamps and the Behringer Eurorack mixer to be just fine for home'demoing" use.

 

[PoundinThunder]

well i dont have a board or a mixer. and i cant run my head through the recorder because i dont have a mic cable. so unfortunatly im stuck with what the recorder has preset. but thank you for your input, i'll try to fix that for the next recording.

 

[lambro]

play with more conviction, the melodic lines are pretty tentative, overall the groove needs to be more prominent, the melodic lines also didnt say that much, it seemed more like they were being played because they fit with the chord

the chord ideas were nice bu there is a lot of muddling and I'm not talking about the recording quality which is another issue altogether, pan hard left & right so you can see the harmonization you are creating better and be mindful of what notes are colliding, also if you are using chorus on 2 different tracks that can also skew the focus

for a first recording is better than my first effort was