New/final mix of bands 'vintage' song

[sambo]

new version of my bands vintagey/classic rock ish song...

all into zoom ps-04 so the guitars tone dont really come through....

im rhythm not lead, using gibbo les paul melody maker with tapped bkp-92....

what do you guys think? not my favourite out of our songs its a bit too 'vintagey' for my liking.... but what do you think- recording/sound and song wise....

no vocals as we have no singer as yet...

http://www.purevolume.com/stonefield

just thought id add- listen to the drumming! thats our little child prodigy known as 'tom'  :drums:

[_tom_]

That was very good but I hate the electronic drums, the drummers really good though. I want a band  :(

[Searcher]

How old are you guys?!  That's pretty damn good!  The drummer's great, but he overplays.  Old joke:  How can you tell when the guitarist has a solo?  The drummer takes a solo.

Some of your rhythm playing, especially at the beginning, is kinda weird with the drums--the accents fall in different places.  I think you need to work on emphasising the same beats consistantly.  Other than that, good stuff, Sam!

EDIT:  To answer your quesiton about the sound and mixing quality, I think you've done a pretty good job.  The drums aren't mixed to my liking, though.  I'd bring the kick up in the mix and reduce everything else, except maybe the snare.  The drums--especially the cymbals--are a bit tinny, but I'm no mixing guru, so I'm afraid I can't help you much in this area.  The bass player doesn't sound confident and needs to learn more about dynamics.

[sambo]

we're all 15 (just turned) except for bassist whose 16.

yer the rhythm thing at the beginnings WEIRD.... thing is... cause we're all recording one at a time, and the drummer plays different rolls every time we play that song, its all a bit of guesstimation....

but yer, i need to work on keeping a constant beat/rhythm going.

thanks dude.

[Searcher]

we're all 15 (just turned) except for bassist whose 16.

yer the rhythm thing at the beginnings WEIRD.... thing is... cause we're all recording one at a time, and the drummer plays different rolls every time we play that song, its all a bit of guesstimation....

but yer, i need to work on keeping a constant beat/rhythm going.

thanks dude.

Cool.  With the rhythm, I'm talking more about when you start with the power chord chugging stuff early on.  You could play accents on the one beat of every other four, starting with the first one.  Heh.  Does that make sense?  So like:  1 [/color]2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 1[/color] 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, etc.

Or do whatever you like, but that's what came to my mind when first listening to it.

[sambo]

yer the mixing of drums will have to be done by our drummer on the actual electronic kit....

the bass player is good but i think needed to be turned up a lot in this one... just like me at the beginning hes a bit all over the place- we need to work on that, really is hard without playing WITH the drummer.... we listen on headphones but theres a certain amount of prediction that has to be done

thanks for the comments searcher!

EDIT: oh yer cool see what you mean, yer the lead.g. was saying something about accenting lol but then said i was doing it 'wrong' so i reverted to just chugging lol.... this lead.g. is a guy who thinks 3+3+2 over 8 is a legitimate time signature...  :lol:

will try and do that more next time, definately. we knew the beginning wasnt quite right but werent sure how apparent it would be, thanks for pointing it out mate.

[Searcher]

thanks for the comments searcher!

No prob!  I think you'll do really well f you keep at it.  So far, so good.

I have stuff to do now, so I can't play leap frog in this thread anymore.  :)

[sambo]

haha yer its getting a bit complicated now lol! . will keep ya posted on how things come along, and i'll post any future recordings as well.

thanks again.

[Searcher]

will keep ya posted on how things come along, and i'll post any future recordings as well.

Rightio.  I'm interested to listen to other stuff you've recorded.

Anyways . . .

*gathers biscuits*

*leaves*

[sambo]

HAHA!!! the thought of someone doing that never actually crossed my mind lol... haha!

*picks up stray biscuit*

*throws violently at biscuit gatherer*



by the way it was the drummer who said that biscuit thing originally lol

[Dakine]

Very cool. Darn and ave. age of 15! wow
Drummer is abit manic huh, v.good though, just may need some restraining, but don't they all LOL

Just got my MRS-8, OMG, figure ya gotta be 15 to figure this thing out (screaming headache already!) lol.

[booboo_bass]

wooot...yea im cool coz im in sams band

To be honest, the mixing could be better but its just so hard with the equipment we have (sambos lil zoom) and the software it comes with isnt exactly amazing. Everyone was a bit dodgy in places (speshly the intro) coz recording seperately is actually damn hard!!

The electronic drums sounded pretty good i thought, although no replacement for a proper mic'ed up acoustic kit.

[sambo]

lol thanks nick.

haha are you really finding it that difficult? maybe its quite different to the ps-04 i dunno... good luck with it anyhoo, look forward to clips!  :D

[booboo_bass]

i think you need to gather your biscuits and leave

its not mega hard, but definatley harder than playing altogether (to state the obvious but yea)

[sambo]

^ no rob... just no.....

that sentance made absolutely NO sense whatsoever.... :lol: