mrwolf14

Let me be the first to offer my congrats on your track. This is a very tight composition with some wonderful playing on your part. Always love what you come up with, Mr. Wolf!

Cheers,
Scott

I am familiar with Stacy`s a capella Domenico...thoughtful instrument choices and composing Domenica..carry just the right knd of emotion to compliment the vocal (which is really well done)..nice job onthe guitar and bass....No surprise...I always know I will be listening to some enjoyable music and big talent when I stop over at your place....another good one...Ed

OK, no professional bass model used by you so now I will see your real face (and bass) when I read your track reviews and listen to your tracks.

Yes, store that bass praising sentence away if you like. I think I generally applaud your bass playing. My main criticism of it would be that you seem not to come up with that many memorable "hooks" or lines that I can remember after listening to the track. It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff. Or maybe you do have some distinctive riffs but bury them in the mix (or just play them once). I'm not sure.

I like to do all sorts of playing around a chord sequence but am always looking for the best, coolest parts that I can bring out and emphasise. I do a lot of chopping up and moving around of my recorded audio parts. My guess would be that you don't. So, when I hear your bass playing for two minutes, that's probably what you played, without any edits. But I could be wrong.

I'm sure I've said to you before that I mostly make music by jamming around an 8 or 16 bar loop for a good few minutes (my record is a 17 minute take; I did an 11 minute one recently on guitar for my track Emperor Tritone), trying out a few different pre-prepared ideas and then, once I think I've played them well enough a few times, I do whatever come to mind - usually something completely unpredictable. That's how I sometimes get some of my strangest and most interesting stuff. And then I spend ages carefully taking the best bits and joining sections together. Real cheating compared with someone who really knows what they're doing and just plays it all in one go, with no edits.

I have no idea how many people work the way I do but maybe you could try out my technique and see if you come up with some unusual, unexpected things.

I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman (if they're good, why not use them yourself) but if I wanted to, I could easily make thousands and thousands of good loops.

Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp. Perhaps I slightly worry that if I put stuff up for download, very few people will care about it so why bother. I know that's quite a defeatist attitude but I am a bit like that in general. I guess I just have higher ambitions for my music but these days making recorded music seems to be no big deal and nothing special or even interesting to most people. So, it's hard to get any interest from people, even if you're good. We can blame cheap music technology for all of this. But, without it, I could not do what I do.

Sorry for no other comment on your track but I thought you might be interested in a few words about other music-related things.

Wishing you well,

Mr Nomad

I must say this is beautiful. I sounds as if you guys are standing in the same room. Carole's vocals are beautiful and the bed of music you set it in is perfect. Sounds like a movie soundtrack, very commercial sound!

Way to go man!

Wayne

Mr Wolf sound really great. I like the way you are playing the piano. Great JOB!!

Nice track! :)
However, to my liking, the drum kit's reverb is way too loud and long, maybe could've put this effect on the singer's voice to glue it together a bit more.
I find the synths quite interesting :>

Domenico, this is absolutely beautiful work. Like Wayne said, you can tell you spent a great deal of time on it. Very emotional guitar work, and the vocals are stunning. There is nothing to criticize here, just 4:21 of beautiful music. The mix is really nice as well. A great track to close out your album my friend. This one got my day off to a wonderful stop. I lift my coffee cup and salute your talents. Well done. I hope all is well.

Bear

Nice finishing track to an album. I've always thought the order of tracks was important to the flow and listeners experience while listening to an entire album. Very pretty song, nice singing, well played bedrock of sound to support the vocals. Nice touches with some great guitar fills. Mix sounds nice as well.

Sounds like you spent a great deal of time on the tracks, it shows, nice job!

Wayne

The Humble Mrwolf,i got nothing but admiration for your work.You a music genius.Good track.Keep it up.

This has such a cool 70's classic rock sound, almost reminds me of Peter Frampton in some weird way!:) The keys, big reverb vocals and cool funky blues feel to it just brings me back to a very cool time where r n b, rock, blues, soul, funk were all experimenting with each others sound. Very well put together, love the guitar, great wah and some nice clean rhythm played. Well done Domineco, great track!

Wayne

Domenico,

More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve

Domenico,

More (Cowbell) Wah Wah guitar ;-). lol. I love the sound and vibe you created here.Bass line moves so nicely. Rhodes piano is nicely placed. Definitely 70's blues, I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this. (IN my mind) If you extended this one I would be bringing a B3 in and jam with yah!
Great Work
Steve

Domenico,

This is a very fine track you have created. Always some wonderful bass coming from you. Not sure if you are interested in a critique, so if not, please forgive, but I was wondering if your vocal pella had as much reverb or was it added. On my end it seems like a tad much, but again, just my sound system and taste. A great track, nonetheless.

Cheers,
Scott

Our humble Mr.Wolf!

Fantastic piece of live music here with your humble instrumentalism...bass play is more than brilliant...like that you put the rhythm guitars left and right dides...it gives superb retro feeling for it...
Don't talk too much about these vocs...simply amazing...very much like and 10 points that you didn't take or get yourself in front...this song is about the vocs our humble Mr. Wolf...
This is that kinda 'blues' what I could sing for hours...not that typical one...you know, what I mean...this is pop-blues...

Congrats and handshake our humble Mr. Wolf!

Danke

Greetings. I had a look at your Bandcamp page and now I have seen what you look like! And you bass guitar. Unless perhaps it's not you and you instead hired a professional "bass guitar model" for publicity shots.

I'm not that keen on the first bit of wah playing. Not sure why - maybe just too much wah in there. I use it quite often as well though sometimes I don't like the sound of it in my tracks but the playing was good (and I couldn't remember how to replay it) so I kept it anyway.

Vocals are clearly the star here. She does have a good tone to her voice. Maybe too much reverb on the vocals though it's not really a big problem.

Your usual good bass sound and playing. And no doubt Rhodes too.

I definitely don't hear this as being blues. More sort of easy listening pop-funk-rock.

You're good at composing around vocals nd you usually make the vocal the main thing and just play complementary parts underneath. As well as having a few guitar breaks, as you do here.

As I've said many times on this site, I generally dislike fadeout enddings but this one is pretty good. Probably because it's quite a long fade so seems to make sense.

Good luck with your album. Have you had many downloads/feedback yet? I guess not many people know that it exists...

Wow you've outdone yourself here brother wolf.
Your guitar solo's is outstanding and the whole track feels well balanced.
Love the vocal work too and the effects used and the fade out in the end was a good choice.
Blesings to you man. - Dragon

wow! this is so funky. These vocals definitely lift up this track to the another level for sure. Good bass playing and nice choice of funky drums. Cool guitar riffs in here as well!

Good work Ciao,I think you really talented,and those guitars were really amazing.

No negatives here, Domenico, just high praise on my end. I'm a fan of Janis, as I am, you. My international band, Musicante, and I have used here pellas on a few occasions.

I think Steve is correct about her pella. I have a setting called 'Boost11' in Sonar which I almost always use for vocals. It brings it up front and adds body to it. You may have something similar in your DAW. Having said that, your track is a real beauty as is.

Cheers,
Scott

I love this Domenico, the music is perfect and sublime. The problem you are encountering comes from Janis'es original recording. The mike she uses does not capture a full range of frequencies. For background it's perfect but for lead it sounds too treble like. Her voice dynamic is very deep and rich and her pellas do not capture that from her microphone. So I think the problem origonates from her recording and not from your mixing and mastering. But I still love what you did my friend.
Steve

I feel like the mix is a little over-compressed for the feel I think you're trying to achieve. Maybe pulling it down a bit will help a bit.

ER

the singing is very beautiful, very professional level for sure. your setting is sensitive - I am liking the guitar licks and solos very much! perhaps the mix is a bit hot?

Greetings.

I like the track very early on. Definitely you using Metal Machine here. It's a good kit though I'm guessing you're not likely to use it to make some really heavy music as you don't do that. John Tempesta's MIDI files are excellent and I use them quite a bit.

Drums sound better here than in your other tracks. I heard you using Metal Machine on another track recently but didn't comment because I didn't really like it.

First spacey synth sound is good and then we're into the track properly. Lots of good guitar and bass. Some swirling guitar chords plus some more lead type of playing. Bass quite loud in the mix though that's not a criticism.

Actually, you might think about turning it down at certain points, just for variety. Maybe let the drums become more prominent as you tend to push them back in the mix in your tracks. I guess you think like a bass player and I think more like a drummer (even though I'm much more of a bass player, my first instrument).

This has got a good vibe, with more attitude than your pop sort of music, so it's a vibe I much prefer. More on the Floyd side of things.

2:04 solo has some slow, gentle notes. Sounds like a cross between guitar and piano.

2:20 we get rocking a lot more. Bring the drums out here, push the bas back, even though it's fine bass playing. Should help take the track up, make it more powerful.

Lots of tasty guitar here to enjoy. Are you playing any of it? Not clear from your track description (please fix that).

Spacey vocal makes me think of blues. Also a very interesting alternative modern blues group called Little Axe. You'll like their album The Wolf That House Built.

Check this great track from it:

Little Axe - Ride On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tWvSvTd9s

End section without drums works just fine. Spacey synth end is fitting though you cut it off a bit too soon.

Overall: very good track. One of the best I've heard from you and my kind of mood and attitude.

P.S. I have bought an electric cello so maybe you'll hear it in some tracks soon. Plucking is not too hard though bowing should be much more difficult. I haven't bought the bow yet.

I'm loving this track. Nice guitar sound and playing. Great beat and I love the changes of the track. Tasty track that one can sink their teeth into with a big payout.

This one's a real heavy hitter, Domenico! Great playing as usual, my friend, and nice drum track.

Cheers,
Scott