Need some feedback

I am working on my debut cd and want it to be as good as possible(naturally). I was looking for some feedback on the songs I am working on. The songs up that are going to be on it on my website are Julia the Elder, Synethesia, Gravy Mountain, and Fer Leslie. Keep in mind these do not have drums recorded onto yet, and are still fairly unpolished. I would love to get some second opinions on my sound and improvements that could be made, or things I am doing right!

Thanks alot, I hope you enjoy.

Count Crackula

Dude...

what does that mean?

All of these are sound-scapes. Julia the Elder is only song in the bunch. You have one major problem, these don't go anywhere. They feel like a collection of sound-scapes and loops, cut and pasted together, given a name, and then each presented as a song. Sound-scapes are cool...but if you're trying to create songs, you're going about it the wrong way. I listen and lose interest very quickly.

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. The sounds are ok, but I get the sense that you are trying way to hard to be different and/or experimental. I wouldn't even call these songs experimental or different, many of these sounds have been done over and over again.

Ok...I've read a few of your other threads. You are a nubee recordist...using Nuendo??? One of the most complicated and far-reaching music programs available?? I think you might have so much capability with Nuendo that you don't know what to do with it all...hell, even I would have a hard time with it.

Maybe because I'm an old hippie, I heard a song in "Julia the Elder," distinct parts, development. Obviously, it needs bass (or more bass -- it's a little noisy where I am) and drums and vocals and maybe some more refined guitar parts.

This isn't really the place to talk about production, per se, but I have to say that I found the super-deep reverb kind of problematic and off-putting. And, as noted, I'm not entirely sure all the guitar parts really worked for me but maybe that's for the guitar forum, eh?

I'll admit, I'm having a little more trouble filling in around what you have of "Electro Jesus."

I was heartened by the break beat you dropped in... but then it was gone. I wasn't enirely sure it fit perfectly, ditto the manually played kick-like synth drum just before the 4th minute. Speaking of 4th minutes and all that... Of course, it's hard to tell precisely what you have in mind for the finished product, and there seems to be a suite aspect going here -- but I could imagine drifting off (and I don't mean in my imagination) before the end of this.

"Synesthesia" just came up. Not counting the synths and the angry suburban b-boy vocal drop, it's kind of another noodly hippie jam. I have a prob with these drums, too. They sound very stumbly and awkward. Which is too bad 'cause I'm liking the hypno-psychedelic jam concept.

Electro Jesus was just an experiment i did last night in like an hour... It was nothing serious, just a weird experiment... haha The bass does need to be turned up in julia the elder, and turning down the low freq on the reverb isnt a bad idea at all... The drums on synethesia are drum machine, thats why it sounds stiff and awkward! Drums are being recorded onto everything tommorrow by the way.