Decode the Design

[The Grand Design]

For anyone who's a big melo-death/gothenburg fan, you might be interested in Decode the Design, I don't like wanking on about the music I make but I do hope you enjoy it! Give me your thoughts if you have a minute

http://www.myspace.com/decodethedesign

 

[waif]

Not bad. Keys are gay. Drumms are a little too programmed. A tad boring. But everything is solid.

 

[The Grand Design]

So do you feel the keys should be darker sounding? Even if I kept the same melody?

 

[HotKnifingHash]

i like it the drums do sound too fake i dont know if thats what you were going for but its good and i think you should throw some vocals on top it could be epic

 

[The Grand Design]

Yeah the drums sound fake cos they are programmed on the recordings, using Drumkit from Hell. But they are just demo recordings and we will use real drums on the proper tracks!

 

[Clay-Man]

Well it's the most real drum shit you can get out of a computer at least.

 

[waif]

So do you feel the keys should be darker sounding? Even if I kept the same melody?

Melody is okay. It's the tone of the keyboard, really. Find something more manly. Like, a set of sounds of people being punched.

But yeah, the tone of the keys. Something darker. Less chintzy.

But mostly, this stuff is a little boring - work it into songs with vocals and shit.

Well it's the most real drum shit you can get out of a computer at least.

tbh BFD2 is about a thousand times better.

 

[The Grand Design]

We're kinda going for a "poppish" feel in the synths. I know it's "chintzy" to an extent but I think it works well in that song specifically.

We're using Superior 2.0 now and we did some more recordings in the weekend. Sounding pretty good. Cheers for the feedback guys!