Musician Forum - Band Discussion Board - BandMix

Howdy everyone,
New member here. Just wanted you to know I've been reading and learning quite a bit info from you'all. I'm rather new at this and you make me feel right at home. Sure are alot of talented people out here. It's nice to be among you. I'd like to hear some of your expertize on some of my material if you would be so kind. Just go to Bandmix.com/bobbyalan

I'm not into country music, but overall, the sound is good, production, mixing all sound decent. The drum patterns are awfully similar in beat / time on every song, but the music varies enough to separate them.

Welcome to the board and good luck

I dont care much for country but thats pretty good stuff! I have the BR1600 myself, and the DR880 drum machine (only limit is your imagination) which I think links up the same on the 900. With some nice drumlines you'd have some great stuff. Thats from a guy that hates country music.

Bobby, I see a lot of potential in your stuff, but I do (as always) have some suggestions.

Try to make your vocals a little more conversational. There is a tendency for you to overemphasize the words. I'm probably the only one who notices this, & it's cuz I do the same thing when I record, often to a worse degree, too. (I've really butchered some of my own songs doing this - I'll put up "Bound For Japan" for you to hit me with the same thing! I'll rerecord that one, someday, cuz I like it a lot.) It comes from trying too hard to make it understandable (cuz you're so proud of your words, at least for me). No need to mumble, but try to relax a bit in your studio, to give it that "live" feeling.

Your voice is quite good enough, but you might want to put a little more into it all, emotionally...just a personal preference that I think would work better, esp in this genre.

Next, I'd cut out the drums starting every song. Nice beats, but they should be used more rarely to start things up. You could try cutting out the 1st few seconds of each piece, so that everything comes in together. I see bands doing that a lot, too, to get everyone coming in on time, but they shouldn't really have to, & it sounds more amateurish when they do this. In the studio, it's a glaring statement that you are doing this all alone & you have no band. Not the sound I'd go for.

On the vox, you could mix up the effects a tad to make each song stand out more on its own, lest everything starts to sound eerilly alike in spite of the differences in instrumentation & melody.

Overall, very nice stuff for the genre. With some tweaking, who knows? You might sell a buncha CD's, or even sell some songs, after the ones who make the really big bucks hear them.

Welcome to BM. Best of luck finding what you want & need.

I like what your doing Bobby. Thanks for the listen and welcome to the Bandmix.

Thanks guys for your insights. I will take them to heart. I really want to thank you for not ripping me to shreds. I've heard a lot of very talented material on this web site.

What a coincidence. My first and middle names are Robert and Alan. So we don't get confused I'm known as fisherman bob. Sounds like you're on to something good in your music. Keep up the good work and welcome to Bandmix.

If i walked into a club or bar and heard your band, i believe I would have a good night, sounds good to me, keep working with it.

Nice to meet you Fisherman Bob and Johnny. Thanks for the nice critique. I listened to both of your music and I want to say you guys are very talented. Wish we lived a little closer to each other, love to jam with you. Anyway, thanks again.
Bobby

Sounds good Bobby, welcome to bandmix and good luck in your musical endeavers. Playing music can be as fun or as horrible as you want to make it. Try to always make it fun and you will have a goodtime.