At 09:32 AM 8/16/2004, Charlie wrote:
I liked them a lot.
Great! I'm glad.
Some quick thoughts: Drums are good - Mike mentioned the excess crashes on each beat - that is the same mistake I seem to make with all my DB tracks. There is most likely some Keith Moon gene lurking somewhere in the DNA. If you are going to get a meatware version of DB for the tracks in the future, what you have is more than adequate.
Yeah, I'll try to fix that. I had to read through the sentence with "meatware" in it a few times before I realized what that word meant. :)
By the way, iTunes was playing in the background as I was typing this e-mail and the song that came on after yours was by the Strokes. It wasn't until the vocals cut in that I realised it wasn't you.... This may say as much about my ears as you music, but - it does show that you're in the ball park (IMHO)
Wow, any comparison to The Strokes is a good one in my book. Thanks!
What recording equipment/software did you use??
I recorded through an mBox, but I have totally given up on ProTools LE since GarageBand came out. The software amp simulation makes it so much fun to play with that I can live without the power of ProTools. Plus losing most of the advanced features of ProTools has forced me to play more live-like, which ultimately results in a better sound, I think. As far as instruments go, the guitars are with a Fender Nashville Telecaster, the bass is a cheap Squirer that I bought used for US$90, and the keyboard parts are played with a Casio CTK-691 (I think that's the right number). The vocals are with a condensor mic I found on eBay for US$50. Thanks for your input! Phil