Worst Band Ever?
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Blink 182. I can not stand them, not a single song. I cringe every time I hear them and how they are popular eludes me. (bring on the waves of hate)
O disregard my post then I just read the title which I ashore you I don't usually do. Reading The worst band ever got me worked up to express my hate. sorryCIA said:
Hmm. Not bad. Forgive me that I'm not doing in-depth investigations about the deeper meaning of the lyrics here, but the instrumental parts are fairly nice. One part in 'Home' reminded me of RHCP - you decide whether that's good or bad. At least it's fairly original - the keyboard and slower tunes stop it from being just another generic rock band. Some parts sound a bit sloppy (as one would expect from a MySpace band anyway), but overall... yeah, I could listen to this. There's potential.
Edit: Actually, I *am* listening to it and have been doing so for the past 15-20 minutes. It's relaxing. Grats on that
Edit: Actually, I *am* listening to it and have been doing so for the past 15-20 minutes. It's relaxing. Grats on that
Well you're no brokencyde but you'll do.(SARCASM) You guys are actually quite good (NOT SARCASM)
Not my genre so I can't really judge, but as a guitarist myself I can comfortably say that yours needs to work on his timing and his tone. In some of the songs it sounded like his guitar was out of tune slightly or his finger was touching on the metal part of the fret which obstructs the tone a lot. And he should probably use some different amp settings to give his guitar a bit more kick to it, it kind of just drones blandly around the other music.
Overall it doesn't sound horrible though.
Overall it doesn't sound horrible though.
From a technical standpoint:
The drums are too far away - I don't know if it's an artificial echo/delay, or your recording engineer is a complete idiot, but I hear the drums nearly ten feet away from the microphones that are supposed to be picking them up.
The piano has a reverb on it that is entirely different than any other instrument, it sounds like he's in an entirely different building.
The Guitar, I don't hear enough of it. It can and needs to be EQ'd higher up with the piano.
The vocals need to be verbed more, just a little, but they aren't big enough to fit with the verb/echo/delay on the piano and drums.
The Bass is all right, I think you can EQ it up a bit as well, you can't hear it do anything except provide low-end support for the guitar that you can't hear because it's already EQ'd too low
For the love of music, close mic the drums: Kick, snare, & hi-hat, and then have a pair of overheads for the cymbals. If you're going to verb everything, verb it all at once: Send everything clean to a compressor on an aux channel and then through a verb, and play with the mix of the clean and verb, you want it to sound full, but not echo-y, and you absolutely want it to sound like all your instruments are playing together in the same room.
From a listener standpoint, you guys sound pretty good; you're definitely still in the amateur level, but I'm sure you sound great live. I didn't find any of the songs unpleasant to listen to on a purely aesthetic level, as a sound engineer I'm paid to listen for the stuff I listed at the top. If you want a more polished sound to your songs, I'd recommend hiring someone to produce it, someone who is not your recording engineer. sound engineers are there to make it sound right, producers are there to make it sound good.
The drums are too far away - I don't know if it's an artificial echo/delay, or your recording engineer is a complete idiot, but I hear the drums nearly ten feet away from the microphones that are supposed to be picking them up.
The piano has a reverb on it that is entirely different than any other instrument, it sounds like he's in an entirely different building.
The Guitar, I don't hear enough of it. It can and needs to be EQ'd higher up with the piano.
The vocals need to be verbed more, just a little, but they aren't big enough to fit with the verb/echo/delay on the piano and drums.
The Bass is all right, I think you can EQ it up a bit as well, you can't hear it do anything except provide low-end support for the guitar that you can't hear because it's already EQ'd too low
For the love of music, close mic the drums: Kick, snare, & hi-hat, and then have a pair of overheads for the cymbals. If you're going to verb everything, verb it all at once: Send everything clean to a compressor on an aux channel and then through a verb, and play with the mix of the clean and verb, you want it to sound full, but not echo-y, and you absolutely want it to sound like all your instruments are playing together in the same room.
From a listener standpoint, you guys sound pretty good; you're definitely still in the amateur level, but I'm sure you sound great live. I didn't find any of the songs unpleasant to listen to on a purely aesthetic level, as a sound engineer I'm paid to listen for the stuff I listed at the top. If you want a more polished sound to your songs, I'd recommend hiring someone to produce it, someone who is not your recording engineer. sound engineers are there to make it sound right, producers are there to make it sound good.
Peace of Mind: take a look at the guitar intro, particularly when you add more strings. It's pretty dissonant.
As for a general overview:
Good stuff: Lovely piano/keyboards (much like Regina Spektor's), good bass lines, sounds like a surefire chick magnet
Bad stuff: I'm not sold on either singer. Work to fix the dissonance in some songs. I don't know what you guys are using to record, but you need to either get better equipment or learn how to record better, because the sound quality is pretty bad. Also, tell your sound engineer to spend at least an hour on the equalizer before releasing any song.
As for a general overview:
Good stuff: Lovely piano/keyboards (much like Regina Spektor's), good bass lines, sounds like a surefire chick magnet
Bad stuff: I'm not sold on either singer. Work to fix the dissonance in some songs. I don't know what you guys are using to record, but you need to either get better equipment or learn how to record better, because the sound quality is pretty bad. Also, tell your sound engineer to spend at least an hour on the equalizer before releasing any song.
Your melodics are not the slightest bit original but the music is interesting, needs more of a dominant riff for improvement.
Anway your not bad, a lot better than any of the bands I see on MTV but if you want to become great then you need original melodics and powerful riffs.
Anway your not bad, a lot better than any of the bands I see on MTV but if you want to become great then you need original melodics and powerful riffs.
That sounds like perfect movie music. Not the kind of stuff that I'd put on my iPod, but something that would make a great background sound for a film.
Also your vocalist needs a bit of work, hes a bit off. Sounds like he's trying to sing higher than what he's comfortable with.
Also your vocalist needs a bit of work, hes a bit off. Sounds like he's trying to sing higher than what he's comfortable with.
personally i cant stand the vocals, im not sure which aspect especially but just the voice in general. the style of music is alright and the instruments are solid enough, i dont find it exceptional ,however, it isnt garbage.
keep playing, change up the vocals, and tighten up the instruments. this is something i would gladly listen to after this.
keep playing, change up the vocals, and tighten up the instruments. this is something i would gladly listen to after this.
Yeahh I play bass in a Dance band (ughh... It's becoming less and less worth it) and I've got an audition for a metal band coming up. One of my interests is MDing (MD = Musical director), its kind of the same as a Producer, just without the knowledge of all the tech stuff. So yeah, I've kind of picked up stuff like that.xleggroll said:
Haha I also have a kinda decent knowledge about marketing and promotion ~.^
Good feeback guys, keep it coming. For those of you who are curious, we all set up and played through our songs together at the same time with no vocals (each instrument got its own track) and then added vocals later. We did 1 playthrough of every song.
Drumset was miced with 2 overhead and 1 kick mic
Guitar had one mic (though the guitarist's Hot Rod Deluxe blew a power tube after the first song so he had to use some crappy SS amp with a TS9 Overdrive, that might explain the thin tone)
Bass was actually direct-in fed into the board.
Keyboard was also direct-in.
You guys like the reverb on the keyboard on not? We were kinda on the fence about it.
Drumset was miced with 2 overhead and 1 kick mic
Guitar had one mic (though the guitarist's Hot Rod Deluxe blew a power tube after the first song so he had to use some crappy SS amp with a TS9 Overdrive, that might explain the thin tone)
Bass was actually direct-in fed into the board.
Keyboard was also direct-in.
You guys like the reverb on the keyboard on not? We were kinda on the fence about it.
Make your pianist/keyboardist do this, and grow a big beefy beard. Just don't change his playing style, it's rather nice. Also, it'll provide an interesting dichotomy.xleggroll said:
The guitar-work's nice, I have to admit, although a couple of sections sound a little clunky - Piece of Mind's intro, in particular, as well as some of the notes in San Francisco. Could be a little louder, I think, since at time it sounds a little lost behind the keys.
The bass lines are lovely, no change needed there, methinks, unless you plan on making them slightly louder, which'd be nice.
The drums need to be a bit louder and chunkier, since they currently sound far away and weak. Was it fully mic'd up?
The vocals are pretty good as well, if a little stuck in one range. Still, I'm not going to complain about that, since your vocalist is still obviously able to hold a tone and tune.
Finally, it's rather calming, listening to this. I'm not a big indie-rock fan, but this is alright. Keep it up.