Well its getting closer to what I want to have…which is at least a LITTLE energy. A lot of my songs have a good groove but its usually behind the beat, which is my style…so im glad this one got up on the beat a little
I feel good as far as I liked it more about an hour after I uploaded it lol. usually I am already disillusioned by then.
I might call it “the bedroom song”…since the whole thing was done while lying in bed lol. Pretty sure ill have to stand up for the vox hehe
For some reason I’m really reminded of “I can’t drive 55” on this one. Definitely has that Sammy Hagar feel to it (my opinion). Part of that is the tone of the guitar that I’m hearing so far. I like this rhythm track so far. Good groove. Love how you left room for the bass to shine towards the end. Tasty!!
Would love to offer some input, but this style of music is way outside my normal range, so I’m utterly unqualified. Just offering general encouragement and moral support instead!
Well im no bass player so I play bass dead simple and am clueless on bass tone etc. Thats a DI sound with some parallel distortion and light chorus
I have told myself that this year I WILL finish songs (before starting too any others). So part of that idea is to just write the gtr parts while chilling in my bedroom as opposed to dragging the lappy into the living room where the Peavey 6505+ combo and Line6 amps etc.
When I go into the living room I basically get maybe 2 hours before my back etc gives out from sitting on the backless chair lol. So I told myself I was going to write demo parts in my bedroom and get it where I want it and THEN id go into the living room and try to redo it with better tones etc
So the tone on this demo is the Fender Stage 185 thats sits on my bedroom floor with a Joyo “plexi” pedal.
But knowing myself…ill probably be too lazy to try to redo the gtrs and ive sort of gotten used to that sound now. So maybe ill take the Line6 and do some overdubs and a solo etc
to me its just rock n roll. Im old now (49) so I have no clue what to call stuff anymore. My frame of reference is sort of set to around 1989 and sort of VanHalen stuff. So to me stuff like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains is “new”…whereas to young people those bands would be way “old school” lol.
Interesting tune. The guitar does have sort of a Hagar-ish phrasing to it. How did you record the drums? It sounds a lot like the EZ Drummer Nashville kit.
Well, I’ll be 57 in a couple of weeks, so I am right there with ya! Between gradual school, overseas postdocs, and being generally the most unhip guy you will ever meet, I am really unfamiliar with everything from about the mid-80s onwards when it comes to popular music. At that time, with all the big-hair bands that all sounded the same like Flock of Duran Thompson Twins, I pretty much checked out of what was “in” and never really came back. And ever since I got my first Ipod back in about '99 or so, I have never listened to radio or any other mass-media music since. That’s unhealthy, probably, and as a result my musical brain is really quite cloistered. Get off my lawn, you kids!
well a lot of stuff is cyclical anyway. Stuff comes in and goes back out. Im a huge Zep fan so some of that comes out from time to time
So far though, especially when I “finish” a song with vox, it just sounds like me lol. Doesnt matter what I plan for it to sound like. I think part of that is because I was always too lazy to copy other bands etc
Led Zep is my all time favorite band… right there withya again! I was lucky to get to see them twice in LA growing up, in '75 and '77. Jimmy Page is my #1 rock hero.
and this one, lol. I had peopel telling me it sounded like about 5 different Zep songs. they were saying Black Dog but I think it had a few moments like Achilles Last Stand
That was the EZ Drummer2 “Rock! Bright Ambient” kit. But I process and goof with them so much that they dont really sound stock. So far I havent gotten a “pro” drum sound lol
I have lots of the expansion kits. I really like the ‘Camco Chamber’ kit from the 70’s Rock pack. I have lots of the kits but I havent taken the time to build templates for all of them etc.
here is one I was working on this morning. its the Metal Machine “original mix” with some processing ideas from a Steven Slate vid
if that sounds like Hagar i’ll eat my laptop. (uh oh, I forgot about the song “Giza” from Hagars ‘HSAS’ band lol)
The groove is great, and the track rocks. (period, this is a rocking track) As for the mix, the first thing that comes to mind is that the drums sound a bit boxy, there’s a lot of (great) room tone but It’s hard to place the punch of the kick and snare in the soundstage, check out an example of a similar idea executed far more dramatically:
The guitar tone is great though I think you need to cut more of the lows and let the bass guitar inhabit that space so you get a fuller, meatier mix.
Anyway, awesome song, hope to hear more as you continue working on it.
panned gtrs out a little more and did away with the center canceller, which i dont know how to use anyway. I should have a big hole up the middle for vox and also left more room for bass/kick up the middle
re EQ-ed bass all around. Cut back the distortion on the parallel bass track, cut back some compression
beefed up kick drum some (backed way off on the gate that was on the “kick comp” channel, added some 93hz to main kick channel)
re EQ-ed snare a bit. Added small amount of reverb to parallel “snare comp” channel
If anything now I wonder if it too much bass gtr. But of course I have to add vocals etc and it’ll all change again. Still worrying slightly about the top of the gtr being a bit too searing in spots. But like I say, there are solos and overdubs to come, so this is just the basic picture
