My own 1 hour Test.

[Fiction]

Hey guys, just another tune;

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This one was a riff I wrote about a year ago (The starting riff) and have never been able to fit anything to it, so today I sat down and set myself an hour to come up with something and this is it. Yet again, my drums are too loud and there's no bass But I feel like i'm getting better at hearing ugly frequencies floating around in the guitars. The playing is a bit meh, especially those slides. I'm also liking how over the past year I've started to get my own signature sound of writing, it makes me feel all warm inside

Any critisicm guys?

I'm going to try do atleast 1 of these a week, just to force myself to record something, and to sort of follow how I progress. Hopefully (I know i've said this for the last 4 Recording studio threads) I'll get a bass soon, and turn down the damn drums

Anyways, enjoy!

[Fiction]

Bmp

Edit: Lol, Drunken Bumps at 4 A.M

[JamesM]

Really cool musically man.

Mix-wise, it's hollow. I'd look at the attack settings on your snare compressor(s) and cut some low mid stuff out. That will really make it cut more. Bass would definitely help this a lot...

I dig.

[Fiction]

Bump, of the final variety.

Edit: just listened again, it sounded so much better just after finishing it haha, guess my ears were a tad stale. Any tips in how to make a kick sound less clicky and painful to ears haha, also the snare I want a bit more "crack", but any of the frequencies I boost around the high mids/highs section gives it an ugly hiss.. Would tweaking compression help or maybe cut some lower freq to clear it up a bit and allow the snap to come through? Halp, also the guitars aren't as good as they sounded before

[JamesM]

Both of those can be helped by trimming fat from lower mid frequencies.