General Music Chat

OH SWEET
LYRICS; ERIC DAVIS
MUSIC: NOISY KUNG FU

This is a rehearsal cut, sightly updated version which we hope to add to our studio list this month.
#5 on my player.

Can't hear the singer hardly at all...

I've heard this song before. It's a good one, sans, but I'm looking for the lead.

Thanks for the listen Phil.
We will definitively pull the vocals more up front for our studio version.
Won't be any lead (solo) work however. We've discussed it and decided to leave it as written. Really want to keep focus on the harmony between Tony and Ray with kind of a "ballad" feel. As opposed to our head-bangers.
The grungy guitar work that accents the chorus will be more out front as well in the studio version.

Thanks again.

Yes, I know the vocals need to be louder, but in case you are interested the lyrics are listed below:


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_OFXWjCZn0

Too Far - Claudia Gneiting

I didn't mean to let you down
Only trying to find my own way
Through mistakes and heartbreak
I learned the hard way down

They say live with no regrets
To live in the moment reservations aside
But mistakes keep me up at night
And I won't tell myself lies

You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself

You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself

It started out so innocent
But so quickly dragged me down
Hindsight is 20:20
But the first time around so obscure

I made it harder than it had to be
Turned my back on my heart
Now wear my guilt on my sleeve
Mistakes keep me up at night
And I won't tell myself lies

You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself
You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself

When I was young
I never would have wanted it to turn out this way
Something inside me tells me it's not too late
Giving me a reason, giving me a hope to change

I'm seeing where I want to be
So far from where I've been
Escape this past that's haunting me
And let me begin again

They say live with no regrets
To live in the moment, reservations aside
But mistakes keep me up at night
And I won't tell myself lies

You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself

You've gone too far
You've gone too far
You're going to lose yourself

Tender mercies beckon me
Broken hearted, red as scarlet
White as snow

Tender mercies beckon me
Broken hearted, red as scarlet
White as the first fallen snow

SANS, you guys keep getting better. FORWARD is the only way to go.

The guitar sound is fairly subdued. I'd make it a bit thicker with some distortion or compression.

The vocals though are really improving.

Keep moving forward and ignore lil miss bad recording.

She's just mad because you let the air out of her poppy recording she didn't bother to listen to before she dumped it online.

Thanks Cap,n.
I appreciate the listen and the props.
Boys have been working pretty hard to pull it to the next level.
Especially Ray.
I don't mind the Blue lady. She's pushing pretty hard but I can tell she is excited. Honestly I think she has some good material as well.
Time will tell.
It always does.


P.S. Recordings pulled right off the mixer via my ZOOM H4
Still needs tweaking, but work great for woodsheding.

who isn't excited?

When they spam the whole shebang, it makes ya want to shoot them from the nearest circus cannon into the non-netted area of the big top.

It's all good, Cap'n, we were all young and wanting some attention. It comes with age.

San, I really like this song, it's brooding and I like that, very atmospheric. You already know you need to bring up the vocals, but for the guitar, I would add some emphasizing licks here and there, just little twangs and such, that way the rhythm isn't like one continuous drone, not that it's bad, but it does add some brightness.

Chaeya

Thanks for the input Chaeya
I think you'd like it better if you could hear my guitar work on the chorus a little better, the way I do it live. Kinda choppy with a swing beat I guess is how to describe it.
Brooding ? Yeah, that's a good description. Almost melancholy.
That's the feel were shooting for. With, like I alluded to before, a little choppy guitar work in the chorus, just to brighten the mood a bit.
We have to be careful recording my guitar / amp. It can be overwhelming in the ambient mix.
And then it ends up being under in the PA / mains mix.
I also work the volume pot on my guitar a lot to vary the tone and intensity of the ambient mix. Also makes getting a "static" level setting for rehearsal recording purposes difficult.
Of course I'll post the studio version when we have it up and running.

Thanks for the listen.

It's all good, Cap'n, we were all young and wanting some attention. It comes with age.

San, I really like this song, it's brooding and I like that, very atmospheric. You already know you need to bring up the vocals, but for the guitar, I would add some emphasizing licks here and there, just little twangs and such, that way the rhythm isn't like one continuous drone, not that it's bad, but it does add some brightness.

Chaeya

Sorry, not all of us come in and spam every forum/thread.

I didn't.

Chaeya I don't think you did either, did you?

So why must we put up with newbs that don't even possess the skills to evaluate their own recording?

It's just sloppy and impatient.

Spend the time with your recording, it's like your child.
If you don't take the time you're rearing an ugly, ill-mannered lil monster that looks and smells the same.

Chaeya I don't think you did either, did you?

Nah, I just showed my tits and the rest is history.

I understand though and if you notice, she hasn't been back.

Last night I signed up for ReverbNation and put up my Facebook Fan Page and I was sitting there realizing how hard it is for a musician to get fans. Many of the young ones don't know better, they come in and spam places like these and my feeling is, why are you promoting yourself among people who are trying to promote themselves? My FB page is full of mostly authors (cuz I'm a writer) and just general friends. Those are the people I want to market to.

Then you get the publicity bots and people who are hired to do publicity and if I knew they were going on music sites advertising to musicians, I'd fire them and demand my money back. If I'm hiring a publicity agent, you need to be marketing to music buyers, not broke musicians like me who are struggling just to make ends meet and get my stuff recorded.

I was willing to go easy on her, but when I saw she was on every thread it's like, geez and then these other cats coming in. Too much.
Chaeya

I must have missed "the tits" lol

I must have missed "the tits" lol

I didn't...

I was subtastefully covered.

Chaeya