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Hey guys! I haven't gotten much feedback on my music and I would like to change that so i know where to improve on my work. I consider most of my music metal but I get mixed opinions on the genre I play in so some opinions on that may help too when I want to describe my work to someone!

http://soundcloud.com/shady-cicada Enjoy!
 
ANYONE thinking like that!!! Let's make history together... right moment in right place. You know what time it is :OMG:
 
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Totally forgot about embedding! Also, pretty catchy song you got there thenew!

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catmatic said:
@GobyGuitar

Thank a lot for your feedback and the encouraging words. Yes, am having plenty of problems near the leads with a lot of clipping happening. While the recorded parts are clean in standalone with plenty of headroom, when put together was causing a lot of clipping so had to cut/record with reduced gains to keep the clipping to little. Have to figure out how to handle this while recording and mixing.

I really liked winds of longing and I think it is coming out well. Especially liked the riffs and melodies when the vocals come in and would love to hear the complete version.

Do you mind sharing what your set up is and how you record. Thanks a lot and best of luck...cheers
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This is fine, the guitars feel all up the middle when I'd probably put them out wider to give a bit more stereo to the thing. If your takes are clipping, be sure to record at a much lower input volume. Should be like -10db probably, cos you've got to put everything together and then add processing like compression. There's enough going on compositionally for it to work as an instrumental, which is good, it holds the attention.

Also, Catmatic is a brilliant name for a band. If you have time, please have a listen to our top track here http://www.reverbnation.com/deathapedisco or here http://soundcloud.com/death-ape-disco/death-ape-disco-new-demo
 
Oh all the people with like 1 post asking for feedback can get lost, if you're not a part of these forums don't pretend to be so you can spam. I may not be a regular, but at least I post here once in a while.
 


I do realize this is my first post, but you gotta start somewhere. Tell me what you think of this-- I've only recently started playing guitar seriously and think I'm progressing pretty well. Any tips/criticism?
 
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fps said:
This is fine, the guitars feel all up the middle when I'd probably put them out wider to give a bit more stereo to the thing. If your takes are clipping, be sure to record at a much lower input volume. Should be like -10db probably, cos you've got to put everything together and then add processing like compression. There's enough going on compositionally for it to work as an instrumental, which is good, it holds the attention.

Also, Catmatic is a brilliant name for a band. If you have time, please have a listen to our top track here http://www.reverbnation.com/deathapedisco or here http://soundcloud.com/death-ape-disco/death-ape-disco-new-demo
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Thanks a lot. I have not used compression before. Got to read up more about it on how to boost the sound. Will try out recording lower at about -10db and then use compression to boost. In DAW, do you apply compression to the whole track or only the guitars?

Checked out Death Ape Disco and it is really cool. Found the vocals really good and some of the riffs were really groovy. The song Death ape disco was my favourite and I liked the groovy riffs in grinding down the sun. Eclipse sounded a lot different in style. Were you looking to experiment in the style?

Cheers
 
catmatic said:
Thanks a lot. I have not used compression before. Got to read up more about it on how to boost the sound. Will try out recording lower at about -10db and then use compression to boost. In DAW, do you apply compression to the whole track or only the guitars?

Cheers
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Thanks for taking the time, very cool of you. We go where the riffs take us, I never worry too much about the style; as long as you have the same singer the tracks all hold together OK I find.

Ah compression, marvellous stuff. Well my point, I guess, is that we are predisposed to think that something louder sounds better, it's to do with the way the ear filters frequencies, the louder something is the more we forgive the problems, and the more impressed we are by what we hear. So if you have a guitar tone you like, it doesn't matter, unless the levels are absurdly quiet, if you record it at a slightly lower level into your DAW, it's still the same sound. You can always add volume later. Usually when you apply compression to something, it will make the quiet parts louder and the loud parts quieter. The end result is that the signal will fall in a narrower volume range, and usually it will on average be louder than before, in my experience. So you want to leave plenty of headroom (space between the level you record at and the level at which the sound will start to clip). Also, a track on its own might sound fine, but when you play all your tracks together, your guitars, bass, drums, lead, if there isn't enough headroom then the mix as a whole will distort, and this is not what you want (Metallica's Death Magnetic album is the most famous example of an album that clips, you can then check out the Guitar Hero version for the sound of it unmastered, and that doesn't clip, and sounds so much better that many people ripped that and listened to it instead of the official release).

So if you record a sound and it is already clipping, that is, distorting, then it is too loud, and you won't be able to add any processing to it, and what's more when combined with other tracks the clipping will get worse and your track will sound distorted and small (not that your recording does this). Rather it's better to record more quietly then go from there- you can make something SOUND louder and punchier, but you can't make it sound quieter, kinda like how you can add gain to a guitar track but can't reduce it to a clean sound if it's recorded distorted.

As for compression on individual tracks and whole songs, this is a very complicated area where I'm no expert. When mixing, I think compression should be applied to individual tracks, but a very light tough is required on distorted guitars- they are already overdriven (clipped!) like crazy, so the sound is already very compressed. But most tracks on a song will have compression on them, absolutely. When mastering a song it is the done thing to apply a VERY light touch with a multi-band compressor as well, but I don't think that's worth worrying about. There are many very knowledgeable people here who can help on the compression issue, it's worth doing a search, other very good sites are sevenstring.org and harmony-central's forums too. All the best.
 
Hey fps... Thanks a ton for taking the time for this detailed reply. It was really useful. I was reading up about it today and things were flying over my head but your explanation really helped. Was having plenty of trouble in this area... Individual tracks having sufficient headroom but clips when mixed together. I use ardour (linux open source) DAW for recording and need to see what options are there to use and read up on how well it can be used.

Thanks a lot mate for the time and info. Really appreciate it.
Cheers and good luck!
 
LOST REGRETS
MDM Band From Belarus!!!

Discography:
2007. One Should Never Stop Trying (Heavy Metal Demo)
2009. The Chemical Way (MDM Internet Single)
2010. Objective (MDM Full-length)
2011. The War Inside Your Mind (MDM Internet Single)

The band has finished new album writing. Studio recording begins in near future. Draft album name is "Obsession". Album will contain 10 tracks with total length of 45 mins.

Web-page: http://lost-regrets.com/eng/

Links to download:
2007: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69428208/lost_regrets_-_demo_one_should_never_stop_trying_2007.rar
2009: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69428208/lost_regrets_-_the_chemical_way_-_internet_single_2009_mp3.rar
2010: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69428208/lost_regrets_-_objective_web_release_2010.rar
2011: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69428208/lost_regrets_-_the_war_inside_your_mind_(internet-single_2011).rar

Have a nice listening, friends!!!
 
I have been writing an album for a while now and I decided to record the rhythm for a song. I programmed the drums. Most people dig it but I want some more input and getting it from people who don't know me is probably best. It has only been roughly mixed, hasn't been equalized, and the clean guitar near the middle is going to be replaced with an acoustic guitar at some point. It's primarily black metal.

http://www.indabamusic.com/asset/show/1718307
 
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