A Duke Original: Not Done With Her

Well here's a rough demo on an original. Yes, it's pitchy, there's too much 'verb, and the voice is lost in the mix. But it's rock n roll, baby. Deal with it.

http://picosong.com/erA

A much anticipated recording from you. lol.

I think your singing is better than when you first did your original take of this song. Though the instruments are mixed too loud compared to your vocals. Good job though!

The vox are improved over last time. 2 months of lessons baby. my teacher tells me not to scream. pfft, what does she know.

First time for me hearing you sing too. Glad to hear you participating in the forum. Your OP pretty much sums it up. I like the writing and the music is very very good. You been doing this for a while....

You're losing your touch though - a love song???!!!!! :-) You old softie!

it's pitchy, there's too much 'verb, and the voice is lost in the mix.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. You need to fix this and post the final version. I'd like to here the produced version. You need to squeeze it a bit too. When it gets loud it feels a bit abrupt from the previous part of the song.

Have I heard this before? I don't recall actually ever hearing anything you've done, but this sounds familiar so I may have heard it.

I like this song a lot...the voice IS lost and too reverb-y but you can fix that, as you know.

I really like the chord progression...it's creepy and dark.

Your voice is very rock...very cool. I like it.

it's a simple i IV i V7 in the verse and the i bV in the chorus.

How many songs ya done? Are you like me and have done several songs but none are really ready yet? You should come into the songwriting section, man! You'd get excellent feedback (hopefully) about your songs as opposed to just the voice.

This is because the inner drum sequencing guru hasn't yet been awaken inside of me. A drum roll would fix the transition, undoubtedly.

How the hell to do a drum roll when you use your PC keyboard for drum sounds!? lol

i use Addictive Drums into sonar. then i mess with the step sequencer.

You're losing your touch though - a love song???!!!!! :-) You old softie!

Indeed, this does tug at the heart strings.

About time you posted something :poke:

Not bad man, a lot of verb and a little pitchy, but other than that, pretty good!

I like this. I remember hearing this song about two months ago. Readers might remember, it was the song with a creepy edge to it but some of us liked that creepy quality. You improved it, I like this version a lot, Duke. I think this is a good original song for a live rock show. I hear slight pitch problems - I do not find them objectionable - and getting the pitch 100 % good is tough for me. I think the reverb is OK for his type song and presentation.

Duke, as an experiment you might bass boost

It's not a rough demo anymore. I think it's pretty good.

you could become a youtube superstar with music videos like this

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I like it... music is good. I am not a big fan of the vocals but it suits the music. I think the verb is OK personally - I think it works in this style of music... it's very Goth, very "Bauhaus"

cool, about the only EQ I know is how to turn the low, mid and high knobs on the ol' amp. will have to boot some of these eq plugins.

yeah, bauhaus/love & rockets for sure.

what the hell is this? looks like a film school student took the auteur-thing a little too far after trippin on shrooms too much.

Yeah once you really start working with midi, it's pretty easy to do pretty much "anything" it's just a qstn of how much time do you want to put in to it, and how much do you want to spend on the samples, programs, plugs, and tools... I love midi cause I'm like a freaking pit on a project. I've worked for weeks on a drum track.

But I've never used, and won't use loops. Some folks do, and that's fine, but for me, "I play" the drums. In that I program and edit each note. As opposed to using loops. Again, nothing wrong with loops at all, some people use them and get GREAT results, and they're faster (much) and easier, and so therefore arguably better? It's just personal choice.