brownte

New tune, studio reworked since last time. http://www.geoffreywelchman.com/images/Hit_the_Spot.mp3 Drums are getting better, and I'm happy with the general vibe and the pan lay-out . . any thots on the bassiness? I like it, but would be interested to hear if it sounded too bottomy on anyone's system. tanks. Finally got a chance to listen. I like it. It's a hair too bassy here for me, but as we've seen, my monitoring leaves something to be desired.

d32xdbrownte dude, the word of the day is 'muddy'. overall, it has the feel of a twice-dubbed cassette tape. details seem lost. in some ways, the separation is better on the older version. (don't mean to sound discouraging! keep recording and experimenting!) Thanks for listening! I haven't heard yours yet since I'm at work and the speakers here are crappy. No worries about discouraging. It's better to hear the critiques since the only other people who've listened prior to this are friends who are not "critical listeners" for the most part. They tend to give reviews like, "Wow!! You recorded something on the computer! Sweet!" I hear what you are saying about muddy. Several others have now mentioned it to me on the Reaper forum. I've been playing with it a bit more to try and clear it up, but haven't gotten close to posting an update yet. I split my rhythm guitar into two tracks and panned it better to make more space in the center for the vocs and I've been tweaking the EQ on the drums, rhythm guitar and vocs to try and clear them up some more. Unfortunately, my budget has me stuck with standard computer speakers with a subwoofer at home so a lot of my tweaking is coming down to guess work. Eventually I'll get something that isn't so cluttered sounding though.

Hi Everyone! Well, I've finally gotten something finished and have worked up the nerve to post it here and see what people think about it. It's the first song on my Soundclick and ReverbNation pages called "Hey Gwen." It was inspired by the (then) upcoming birth of my first child. (She's 3 mo. old now) I recorded it in our nursery/computer room on my home-built XP Pro box (3ghz Celeron, 512MB, RealTek onboard SC) with my Ibanez S470DX and Spider II 212 direct to the Line in, and an MXL DRK Mic for the vocals. My DAW is Reaper. The drums are done with SuperDrumFX. The older version of the song is from a few months ago as a first attempt and is up there for reference as to how it sounded when I was just using Audacity to record with and couldn't get enough editing control when mixing. I'm looking for honest feedback about virtually anything you feel like commenting on. I'm still pretty much a n00b (even at 38 years old!) so I'd like to learn how to make future stuff better. The only disclaimer I'll offer to start with is that the 128k mp3 on both pages sounds a good bit "swishier" in the highs on the cymbals than it does for me playing the original local file at home. Gotta love the internet.