3 Mar
2005
3 Mar
'05
7:13 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:33:16 +1100, Stuart Allie
<Stuart.Allie(a)hydro.com.au> wrote:
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the comments.
Oh well, it never hurts to ask ;)
totaly in agree, maybe by adding the same guitar with different
distro. or like i like especialy a acustic guitar, giving a brightness
that is missed in the distortion.. it's not my kind of sound but i
liked the more composed theme, keep on!
Comments,
criticism, suggestions, chocolate; all are welcome.
Sorry, no chocolate ;) About the tunes, In my youth I could have totally
listened to this,
reminds me
of Tony McAlpine which I listened to quite a bit a long time ago.
Since then I fear I have grown away from this genre.
When I first started playing guitar was when the whole Shrapnel Records
thing started happening, with MacAlpine, Malmsteen, Becker, Friedman
etc. They were (and still are I guess...) a big influence on me. I gave
up playing for about 10 years (hand problems) and recently picked the
guitar up again, and dug out all my old CD's (and some LPs!). I've
started to get more into the "progressive rock" (Dream Theater, Arena,
Pain of Salvation, ...) genre now but it hasn't really filtered into my
playing yet.
The solo guitars sound quite nice especially when
the two guitars play
"against" each other, they should be upfront in the mix and they are,
there's
a little much guitar-noise at times perhaps, not much more to say,
possibly
they are bit over the top with effects, but I guess that comes with
the
territory.
I'm starting to realise that the amount of distortion is *way* over the
top. Sounded good through the speaker when I was playing it, but
listening to it now, well, I wish I could go back and turn the "drive"
knob way down.
The backing
arrangements seem quite nicely laid out, I think they
sound a
bit
synthetic though. I think they would improve alot just by changing the
sounds/soundfonts, whatever you are using, to something of higher
quality.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've just collected a bunch of soundfonts, so
I should be able to do something about this. I hope to start using
hydrogen for drum tracks soon, so I should get some better drum sounds
out of that (I haven't really found any good drum soundfonts yet.)
That's about all I can think of at the moment :)
Keep it up!
/Robert
Thanks for the encouragement.
Cheers,
Stuart