Evisma

Awesome!!! Just simply awesome!!! Some of the guitar riffs actually made me think of the song "schism" by Tool! Sweet!!! Well done man!!!

Welcome to blisterland!...any guitarist who hadn't kept his calluses in good shape would have found himself in the emergency department after this, Evan this is epic! The first part of the arrangement is like a tidal bore coming down a narrowing river, most spectators were washed away, I don't think I've heard a better confluence of Superior drummer with guitar their hand in glove, the second part of the arrangement is quite sublime and creates a very intuitive release both from an emotive and production standpoint. Heavily driven guitars are notoriously difficult to mix and can easily overburden, mask and in some cases totally defeat adjoining instrument frequencies, absolutely no sign of that! There is only one slight caveat that I will mention here, I'm listening to this track through my headphones and it sounds great, however I want to give it what it really deserves some proper volume through my monitors with a sub engaged...so after "she" who must be obeyed goes out I will crank this bad boy up a tad and continue this review....cheers Dave

Really enjoyed this epic trek through badass guitar land. The playing is super great. This is not a criticism but the one thing I would do if this were my track is to try silencing the drums, possibly throughout but at least in the middle part after the break. The beat is in the guitars and, without the drum, you could hear every nuance a little bit better, and to me the guitar is like tangerine juice - you want every drop. Great work.

This track is straight fire!Like jesus dude, this is amazing!I felt like I was watching an epic fight scene listening to this.10/10

Amazing work Evan. Everything flows very smoothly in my opinion. Not a sound or melody unfitting. Bangin track

Wow....you got that big arena rock thing...but you have laid some really fine melodic rock in there...This is rock composed with a lot of thought and delivered with a big pile of talent...fabulous track my friend...perhaps your best..sounds.tone totally on the money and the production is top class..so whats left to say...the whole thing is just an excellent piece of rock music that as far as I am concerned would blow away a lot of the so-called pros...you are a pro......
I haven`t mic`d an amp for years Evan...just through my preamp or processor into the mixer...Standing ovation.....Ed

Dear Evan!

That's powerful, innovative and unique. When I hear your creatures I always wanna go back to my younghood when we wanted to play music like this but we weren't able...:-) that was 30 years before...noone knew about guitar low tuning and stg like hat...this magical piece is giving me a mirror how looser we were at that time...:-)
the opening and the last parts are like a southern rock/metal themes...and the middle parts the jammy tunes...as your bests...no idea for the mix cause I donno mix but I doncare mix cause it's good on it's being...aewsome guitars over the number...and the drum tone is cool too...
thanx for the upload, long live your creativity, handshake, Danke

Great work here Evisma! Those guitars are sounding great and very heavy. Normally I think music is required a little EQ here and there, but this track does a terrific job without the use of it. The mixing sounds great on my end, but then again my monitor setup isn't the best setup to hear all of the frequencies properly. Maybe others could be of better to help you there. Overall I think you've done a pretty good job at delivering a great rock track. The only thing missing is a nice of vocals.

Thanks for sharing!

epic track, with a fascinating progress!
your bass line is awesome: for me it's the track spine.

really good work

Hello mate,

Sorry I havn't been around to enjoy more gems like this track.
The guitar the bass the drum are wow.

Great job great track mate.
Happy christmas and have a wonderful new year.

Well done
Jamid

This is pure, beautiful insanity! It's like Tool rescored Fantasia. The different motifs are so expertly blended that new images are conjured to the mind with ease. It's carnivalesque at first, then the ghostly choral comes in before the bass growls a low warning of the dangers ahead.
The tension holds as all begins to fade into the distance. We are left to wonder what horrific wonders we have just witnessed. Then silence.

This is really incredible stuff. Fav'd

TA

Yeah...I like it.....and I see I`m way late even catching up with this one (like everything else lately)...love the acoustic intro....drums are very natural sounding (like the acoustic kit you are using) many very tasty little bits with the ping-pong delay etc to add the interest/variety...Man, you really got everything working together great in this one Evan.....thoughtful composing too....best damn piece of music I have listened to all day (and then some)...big fav from this ol boy....Cheers...Ed

Regressive regreetings, Progressive Bro.

"don't knock the pull-out"

Good point. I thought about going with "vag vacationing visigoth" and "vag vanquishing visigoth" but decided that "vacating" better suited your considerate personality. How considerate of me. Anyway, who wants to vanquish vag? That would no doubt put it out of action. Better to keep it fully functioning. And not overflowing with babies.

OK, you ungrateful wretch, I will take back Killing My Good Times and turn it into a Nomad masterpiece.

"We'll discuss this further elsewhere."

Damn, it sounds like you might actually put something up for Slupergroupery collaborations. An offering to The Vulv.

Great to hear you're enjoying Superior. "EZX does not have all the mic bleeds and striker options". Is that so? I guess there have to be some differences though I have a couple of SDXs (Roots and Sticks) that have fewer drums than some of my EZXs.

I'll tell you another time about two things I find really annoying about Superior (maybe you have found a solution) but for now will give you a Progressive suggestion.

So, you've worked out that you can add additional drums using X drums though you can't alter the processing of that new drum. So, if you add a second snare, I think its output channel is the same as the initial snare. As you've only got one main kit that you're really going to enjoy (Progressive), I suggest loading a few instances of it into Studio One, giving each some different processing. This will give you a much larger range of drums sounds. You could use one kit for the verse, another for the chorus (yes, I know we don't exactly make verse-chorus-verse music).

I rarely alter the pitch of any of my individual drums but don't forget that that option is always there, as is the envelope, so you can get, for instance, shorter or longer snares.

Finally: it's a mild shame that you didn't get EZ 2 as the GUI for each kit is really cool. They're rather basic and boring in Superior (but still pretty cool). It's fun watching that kit actually play away when it plays back a MIDI file, isn't it?

Progressive Nomad, smelling your lie through the smoke and arrogance

I really like your work in general and this one is no exception. Always something very powerful in your sound.
This time the acoustic opening reminds me on Metallica, but only briefly and then piano starts raising the temperature
and after a minute and 3 quarters we're in full energetic motion...lots of interesting and effective changes along the way and splendid guitar work. One of your best moments for sure, but then again they're all well worth listening!

Compliments____Orlando

Hey Evan,

I'm really impressed with the production on this. You have always shown excellent skills in playing and composing but your really getting too good! Have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the acoustic intro. Awesome articulation there bro and and I dig the subtle delays that are timed just perfectly. I differ from sford because the piano accompanyment is in my opinion the icing on this cake. I had to re-play it 4 or 5 times before listening to the rest of the song. Sorry. Quite honestly it's fairly easy to work up a few riffs, throw some chords together, pipe it through some effects, drop in some bass and drums and viola. I'm always more impressed musically with lyrical composition than anything else. Lyrical in the sense of the artistically beautiful or expressive quality of a piece. Having said that I don't mean to understate the rest of this track. I really dig it as well. I think you and I both have similar interest in the more technical structures so I'm definitely grooving on your time signature and poly rhythmic stuff here. And yeah I'm still trying to decode the subliminal message contained in that outro! Very intellectual but also a lot of fun.