Heartland

Any comments good or bad please!

Heroin Child (4 track demo)

d-i-s-c-o

very groovy

i like the dynamics of the tune - i'm already humming the riff to myself

and it hurtles along at a nice pace. nice

personally i'd take a little of the flange of the bass (heresy! i hear you cry ) to make it a bit cripser in the mix as it sounds a little muddy at present, and then i'd crank up the drum machine another couple of notches - music like that is driven by a big fat bass drum and a sharp snare, and yours sound good, just a tad quiet

good work

now get some vocals on it... (he says )

Flange? Off the bass? Are you insane???

It sounds muddy as it was recorded on a cassette tape 4 track plus we were running it though some sort of Zoom pedal that had Amp effect on it then running it straight into the 4-track. We tried to port it onto the PC track by track, but the tape was a little warped and although it was in synch for a bit, but about 2 mins in it was totally out.

The mixing was done using headphones so it sounded ok at time (I spent about 2 mins doing the levels )

The drums were an old Dr Rhythm. I had written a quick drum track on Fruity Loops which was a little more beefed up, but due to the synch probs, couldn't use it in the end. Once I work out an easy way to record straight into the PC as easy as using a 4-track I'll be able to do better drums, but listening again to it, yeah, the drums could do with being a little louder.

My friend Ce||Two did the bass and the lead guitar line, I did the other guitar. There would have been vocals, but Ce||Two hadn't thought of anything to sing about! The title is just a title, nothing more, nothing less.

Thanks Quiff!

Kind of reminds me at the beginning (in an odd way) of the old Formula 1 music: Dum... de-de-derrr didi derner ni nerrrrr

CellThree wrote:Any comments good or bad please!

Heroin Child (4 track demo)

Nice one

markfiend wrote: Dum... de-de-derrr didi derner ni nerrrrr

I like it.

I generally agree with QB - give it a good solid snare and kick drum, but I do appreciate you're working with an old Dr Rhythm and a 4 track.

Given access to more equipment I'd add a few drum fills. I'd also be tempted to add a chorus or middle 8 to break up the song a bit, and perhaps a couple of alternative phrases for the lead guitar, to add variation.

markfiend wrote:Kind of reminds me at the beginning (in an odd way) of the old Formula 1 music: Dum... de-de-derrr didi derner ni nerrrrr

oh dear...fleetwood mac...

and i now wish i hadn't read through before i'd finished downloading the track...

I liked it, reminds of old skate movie music

listening to it for a second time...

it's alright...thanx...could be a winner so i'd get copywrite ASAP...actually...um...i've seen bands that don't sound that good for their entire set...

I bloody like it

"Into the trees" I'd like to hear it pounded out in an arena, with a stack of lights. Nice one

Thank you all for your comments! Hopefully I'll have another one for you in a couple of weeks if I can get together with Ce||Two and we have enough Asahi

pikkrong wrote:I bloody like it

Don't know why that made me laugh. It just did.