Our band needs your serious opinions...

Ya so our band finally has a few demo songs up, we just got a new rhythm guitarist and we just recorded our new song "burnt to a cinder." We just wanna know what u guys think about this song, we want serious critisism we can take it dont worry. Some things we noticed are the rhythm guitar is up a little to loud during the solo and such. Also we think the vocals may need to be put up a little. So go ahead and tell us what u think. Feel free to comment on the other songs aswell. thanx

www.myspace.com/carpediemband

I'm in 20 seconds and I can already tell you that this needs to be re-recorded. For starters, the lead guitar is out of tune, and the delay guitar has a couple off notes (if you recorded this w/delay, for future referance record the track dry and add delay as an insert..much easier to fix things), your drummer doesn't stay in time w/the band during the "quite" parts. The drums are also too quite in the mix, the guitars are too loud and bury the vocals.

This needs to be better rehearsed and re-recorded.

1. The singer is pretty good.

2. The song is repetitive and boring. Merely being louder and quieter is not really arranging.

3. The lead guitar is flat.

4. If the rhythm is going to be that distorted, make it more crunchy sounding (maybe a bit more midrange) rather than so big sounding on the bottom end. It's overbearing and makes eveything sound muddy.

5. The lead guitar sound need to be a "louder" sound using more master volume with overdrive. Right now it sounds like it's recorded in a bedroom with a Princetion amp on 2 and a Zoom processor or a fuzztone.

6. No offense, but seriously, you need a new drummer. This guy got lost on a standard 4/4 at about 39 seconds into it.

And, IMO, (which I know isn't worth much) you guys ought to give it a couple of years before you record. Until you work out some of the issues your band has (which mostly sound like lack of musicianship and a lack of any real sense of how decent songs are put together) you're just going to be wasting money putting out a CD that the market is already buried with and that frankly no one is waiting for. It's harsh, but that's pretty much the reality of it, as I see it. It's kind of like going into the carpentry trade and deciding that after a year of framing, you're going to build a spec house. In a market already flooded with your product, it had better be damn good if you're going to rise above all the dreck that's already 6 feet deep out there.

Mostly agree with everyone else.

Songwriting is not horrible, but is really sort of derivative and boring.

Production and mixing is atrocious.

Drummer can't really keep time.

You could probably use this to get shows. I'd recommend playing at least 25 shows before you record.

well thanx for ur honest opinion i think thats what our band needs to hear and believe us, we are working on what u guys mentioned. to clear just a few things up were only in college and just started. the recording was done on a crap recording station with crap mics. as far as musicianship goes i dont think were horrible compared to all the punk and pop bands out there, but we do need work. We appeciate the comments.