General Music Chat

Greetings fellow musicians. Brand new to this forum, thought I'd say "hi" and introduce my self. Name Alex, well the rest is in my profile. I see a lot of talent here. Truly.

.:Happy new year and may you be inspired ever more:.
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Welcome to the forum, Alex.

Nice stuff on your profile. Happy new year to you as well.

Yeah man , I dig the genre mix and time change ups. Are ya playin an electronic drum kit TD 12 etc, or are the drums triggered using MIDI software?

John

Your music sounds pretty cool. Welcome!

Thank you John. (Just looked at your profile - you are a pro, no doubt about it)

The drum kit is Roland TD20S V-Pro.

The guitar is US Fender passive electronics. eBow on the ballad. Line 6 with all custom programming for the tones. The keyboard on the second track is a cheap Yamaha. Bass also a Fender.

Recording software is Cubase 4 Studio.

I recorded the drum kit first with the Cubase click (pick pook pook...) then the rest.

I .:NEED:. a vocalist, need so badly, these and the rest of my tunes beg for a powerful voice to carry the main melody...

Yeah, I can use my imagination and hear that perfect vocalist in those songs! Good luck on your quest to find him/her.
Nice tunes!! Pro-quality/ well done.

WELCOME, I cant check your music out cause im at work,. As you can see im hard at it. Ill check it out latter today.PEACE

WELCOME, I cant check your music out cause im at work,. As you can see im hard at it. Ill check it out latter today.PEACE

Now that im done with that annoying work thing. I realy like your tunes, sound verry well recorded, verry well played. PEACE

Decent on-the-road-to-victory kinda ballad, considering how they're always cheesy lol
The drum track may be a bit too compressed. Not sure though. The rhythm and lead complement each other nicely.
The heavy rhythm part in Twilight was good. I'm not a big fan of the dragonforce style, so yea
The Sign sounds great, imo. Tight "chugga chugga" riffs. You should have those riffs in 2 duplicate tracks and pan each a little to the left and right respectively. Try it. If you don't like it, forget I said anything.

Dig it, man. Best of luck with your search. And yes Dio is godly lol

Thanks man.

You are right on about the panning. I will pan the two guitars of the last track, it will make better. Actually I am thinking of re-recording it with EMGs instead. Now I need Dio like singer.

Twilight - ala Dragon Force - thanks that's a complement. Although I have long way to go to learn sweep picking, even though I practice sweeps every day still long way to go.

Compression on the drums, yes. That drum track was plaid in a studio on a rental electric Roland drum kit, I only had 2 hours to do it in. I will see if I can change the compression on it. I have the raw wave for that track. Snare is too compressed right?

Thank you for constructive critic. I like constructive suggestions. They make me a better musician.