Yeah, that's good, albeit surprisingly brief... definitely looking forward to hearing the whole thing!
This seems as good a time as any to raise the question of encoding strategies. On my pc at least, the bass was very overdriven on that cut, though the sound overall is good and clear. I personally don't reckon it's worth encoding rock music (of any type) at higher than 160, maybe 192 top whack, and in fact I usually rip rock and metal CDs at 128 with perfectly satisfactory results (if something is exceptionally well-produced I'll use 160). I once got hold of some Dead Kennedys stuff that someone had encoded at 220 and it sounded terrible: the weak original production was just highlighted (and made worse) by the unnecessary space in the file. Kinda like dubbing a nth-generation demo ontp a chrome tape, if you've ever done that..?
Any thoughts? Lee, should I just piss off and start a separate thread so that everyone can ignore it?