More than Chemistry. Original

msnelson · #1 August 15th, 2006

Just looking for a little feedback on a song I wrote and recorded with a good mate of mine.

Snelso.

allthumbs · #2 August 15th, 2006

Nice tune, The vox are too far in the front of the mix to my ears. The lead guitar needs to be up in the mix a little more too. All the pieces are there. You just need to remix it. Good stuff.

Jim · #3 August 15th, 2006

Welcome to the site and nice job!

I felt it kind of had a Grateful Dead feeling to it - which is a real compliment from me because I really love their music. One of the few groups I've seen live several times.

Nice playing and singing - keep 'em coming!

Jim

macmoondoggie · #4 August 15th, 2006

Good tune! A remix is in order to bring the instrumentals up to the vocals
as allthumbs pointed out. Nice presentation otherwise.

Lcjones · #5 August 15th, 2006

MS,

Nice melody cookin' there! Great 60's mojo happening. Interesting hook, the chemistry thing. Cool. Agreed, what the others mention about the mix. You've got a powerful voice!

Nice stuff. If you're mixing down your own stuff with a sonic package that allows multi-track, I'd seriously think about investing a few bucks in "live drum" samples (loops) from some place like BetaMonkey. Theres a few places out on the net with live drum samples!

Les

krissovo · #6 August 15th, 2006

Very nice indeed, I get a Van Morrison vibe from this probably due to your strong vocals and nice meoldy. The lyrics are great and I really felt them as they reflected a part of my life not so long ago.

cshude · #7 August 15th, 2006

Real nice song- I agree with the comments above in regards to mixing. Great job.

737blues · #8 August 16th, 2006

Very nice. You've got a good voice there. Mixing sounded okay on my box.

msnelson · #9 August 16th, 2006

Thanks all for the positive feedback. Definite motivation to keep working on other stuff that I have. I'm not much of a sound guy but I will pass that advice on to my friend too. He does most of that. I think the problem we had was we recorded it and then played it back through some of his gig speakers. Sounded great. But once you get a listen either on cd or through your pc speakers, the sound seemed to change. Anyways, all comes with practice i guess.

Thanks again.

Snelso.

Lcjones · #10 August 16th, 2006

Hey MS

I know what you mean about the sound..... I was using some studio headphones that I thought were good. Turns out they weren't meant for mixing down. If you can, get a set of Audio Technica M40fs. They really really make a difference in how you hear the playback sound. My studio phones enhanced a lot of hi-freq's so i was missing the lo-end and things would get kinda muddy. These AT's fixed that problem immediately. You hear the true tones. So when you're setting effects and stuff, you can tune your tracks to sound perfect in the headphones and when the come through the speakers it's flat awesome.

Les

msnelson · #11 August 16th, 2006

Thanks Les.

BTW, I forgot to mention your comment on the drums. "I hear ya". Always sounds a bit tacky with synthesised beat in the background.

Snelso.