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It's tracks like this that make me wish the vocals that come out of my face were as good as the ones that stay in my head.

This is pretty jammin my friend! It does remind of if the Doors had a second guitarist or something. The drums have a pretty vintage sound to them which is nice! Before you add to the kit, remember that old blues and blues rock groups often had pretty minimal drum kits. That said, adding some more drums could give a more updated sound. I really enjoyed listening! Faved for sure!

Hi TV,
Good to see one of your tunes here...
I have to second what the others said: your production has improved. You still manage to keep that "live-played" feeling that I appreciate so much in your work, but this song is more polished.
Adding voice to this is not "strictly needed" as it works well also without, but I have to admit that I would be really curious to see what can come out of this with the right vocal track on it :-)
Take care, Domenico

Welcome to America the land where freedom is endangered! I know there's ways to EQ the drums and give them a better sound.I have a large collection of single hits, many just suck haha I need to experiment alot more with drums. This is definitely metal :P Some Judas priest like vocals would sound awesome on this :D

Jump n nice

Well here is some tasty stuff! Always love hearing the heavier pieces on here. Great flowing lead lines and ear candy throughout. Just enough modulation to do the job but not so much as to distract. I wore a grin for the whole listen. Thank you.

Evan

TV!

How the f..k I missed this song? I think it's a superb one...man you got special sense how to make an awesome song from 3-4 chords (good musics don't need more :-)...
FAN of your guitar tone and solos...man, make something together... well?

Best, Danke

Great track, flows, changes, sounds live, looking forward to seeing this track with vocals

That guitar is awesome. I like the changeup at 1:05. That was sweet. I dont really see too much of an issue with the drums, I kind of like it.

very welldone man ! I'm agree to Steve Crucethus about the genre buT no matter whaT genre includes it I was convinced for Fav mark . I had listened your Rock traX before too , and as I remember U were always very good in rock & heavY ,& meanwhile I like your loops too,buT according to I have listened tallented Static traX and yours too , I can underestand your nice description and anyway it's great what U've done.best wishes.___Behnam

In my opinion it belongs in rock. Been Listening to some old Nazareth lately and in some ways this has that feel to me (minus the drums).

nice song man

i like that .... sounds like you need a hook and some definition between the verse bridge chours parts .... if you like send me the stems (full length audio parts with no effects on them) & midifiles ill see what i can do for you ...

wowza this is great

I love it i might try and write some lyrics to this later today if i do use it ill keep you updated. You can hear how i sing on my new song jealous

Would Love to try this out if that's possible sir been wanting to try a different type of genre

To adjust velocity of your drum parts, should be just that you open up the MIDI part on your sequencer's timeline. Under all the notes, you'll find parameter data and 'velocity' is probably the default one you're shown (though you can choose to see others too eg pitch). You should be able to select a bunch of notes and increase them all by a certain number of points (the range is 0-127) or do things such as specify maximum and minimum levels, which can be useful when you want to keep their relative levels to each other intact. I hope that makes sense, though I guess if it doesn't you'll probably just discover it for yourself anyway.


One way to view the addition of a second kit is that it's just a bit like saying 'add more physical drums to your one, single kit' a bit like someone such as Neil Peart of Rush does (his kit has loads and loads of toms and cymbals). Having two snares can be cool, for the obvious technique of using one for one section, one for another (eg verse/chorus).

I use multiple kits on pretty much all my tracks. For a hard rocking track that might suit you, check out Debt Black Hole as it has 4 kits on it and a lot of complex, layered drumming in styles ranging from jazz to extreme metal.

Good luck with vocals. I would also love to find vocalists but would much prefer to work with some in person rather than do online collaboration. If I'm going to collaborate, I don't want it to be via sending emails back and forth, needs to be together in the same room.

That's an awesome sounding guitar dude. It would make Ace Frehley jealous. Is it a Lessy?

Critique: Dude, you gotta get rid of the drum machine and get acquainted with drum loops. Machines sound like machines. Loops are actually musicians recorded so they are far more organic than machines. And really when you play against a loop some high quality musician recorded, you are in fact jamming with that human being across space and time.

Plus actually using loops is WAY easier than fussing w a drum machine.

Anyways the human stuff sounds hot. A couple good loops would light your beat right up. :-)

Oh yes, definitely take the live band sound comment as a compliment. That means it's got lots of energy and dynamics and doesn't sound lifeless and planned out on a sequencer grid (even if some of it is).

Yes, I'm also a guitarist first but have got a lot better at production over the years and made massive improvements in the last 2.

The two big advances have been getting much better drum software and also the automated use of EQ. You can spend ages getting a decent guitar sound but it still just doesn't sound right at some points in the track. And you can use EQ creatively. It's not hard, you just have to listen carefully and try boosting it a bit and then coming back to it the next day to see if your change has helped or if it jumps out at you as being undesirable.

If you've got too much noise on a guitar part, there are a few, more specific, tools you can use to remove but I tend to just remove the high frequencies. I find most of my guitar parts are really boosted/excited by increasing the middle frequencies a bit.

I hate reading guides to how to produce and engieer so I just spend lots of time doing and learning from my mistakes and being humble about how good something is and always thinking hard about how it can better. And then I eventually do make it better.

Stick at it and you'll get better and do your guitar playing the justic it deserves.

Good to see you're using Addictive Drums - something you said you would a couple of months ago. I was thinking about this just the other day.

Instantly I would recommend lowering the velocity of that kick. Maybe turn it down but I think the problem is more that it's playing at pretty much the top velocity. Ask if you're not sure what I mean.

Your drums could do a bit more as they're a bit simplistic and you might think about having a second kit for variety ( I do it a lot).

The rest of the playing is good (and my kind of thing)though maybe you should go with just the one guitar at certain points as maybe it's a bit too intense doubling the pair up. You do do this (drop one of them) but I think it might help to do it more often in this track.

Are you looking for a vocal for this?

If so and you get a good and distinctive one, it could be a really classic track.

Blues is close to home territory for me TV so you gotta know I liked this one....blues and your rock style go together like they were meant to....reminds me of some good times...(I think good-time blues are legal now)....Right on....Ed

I'm a huge stoner rock fan though haven't really liked any Queens stuff since the brilliant Songs For The Deaf.

But this is cool - fairly relentless rocking, really. Loads of good lead work, though I think some of it's probably too loud.

This would be really classic in a live situation - the kind of stuff people love to move to.

It also pretty much sounds like a live band rather than one guy doing each part separately in a studio.

Excellent playing but you could make the mix better.

Wow! This felt like time travelling... the spirit of the 70s is all around this track.
I liked everything. Probably it could work well with a good vocal part.
The solo-guitar parts are perfect: not a single rough edge. Good!
The rhythmic part is solid and pleasant. I liked the chord progression.
Overall, a really good song.
Ciao, Domenico

down n dirty this sound is. I could see you expanding this tune. By kicking ass like this tune does, then bring the verse down to just drums and a bass line (like the pixies used to do) then blast us in the chorus with this guitar sound, all along with a stone roses like vocal, then you would have one hell of a song!

hey man, i dig this funky guitar. maybe turn it down a bit though, it seems alot louder than the drumbeat. other than that this kicks ass!