UPDATED!!! you asked for it

[TechBoyJK]

i listened to the criticism, remixed, rearranged, and did a better master of the track.

Please check it out!! download for free and enjoy in headphones!

listen to "Somewhere in Space"


OLD POST

listen to "time to fly"

my friend tim and I are working on a music project called Metopia, and we put together our real first piece for the CD.... I posted some stuff we did before and ALOT of people liked what we did, so maybe you all would like to hear this one.. its much better imho. I did all the guitars and mixing/mastering, and my friend tim sequenced everything else.

 

[saymyname]

It's a bit repetative, but I do like it. Vocals will be nice. It skips about a quarter of the way in.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Sounds good, pretty calming.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: saymyname
It's a bit repetative, but I do like it. Vocals will be nice. It skips about a quarter of the way in.

yea, thats a damn skip... it was worse but i covered it up a bit... for some reason everytime we mixed the sequence down, it would skip once or twice during the first few minutes... vocals and some samples are going to be put on it to fill it out

 

[TuxDave]

Maybe I'm not into the genre of music you're trying to provide but everything feels too disconnected. To the guitar, the dinging thing and the really distorted noise. I'm not sure how they help each other in the song.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Maybe I'm not into the genre of music you're trying to provide but everything feels too disconnected. To the guitar, the dinging thing and the really distorted noise. I'm not sure how they help each other in the song.

the beginning should sound kinda disconnected because space was left for vocals, in the later parts of the song, id hope the lead guitar would connect things... about the sounds, dunno, they are just textures we both agreed on and thought the overall sound was kinda cool, like aphex twin plus joe satriani or something

 

[TechBoyJK]

bmp

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
i listened to the criticism, remixed, rearranged, and did a better master of the track.

Please check it out!! download for free and enjoy in headphones!

listen to "Somewhere in Space"


OLD POST

listen to "time to fly"

my friend tim and I are working on a music project called Metopia, and we put together our real first piece for the CD.... I posted some stuff we did before and ALOT of people liked what we did, so maybe you all would like to hear this one.. its much better imho. I did all the guitars and mixing/mastering, and my friend tim sequenced everything else.

EVERYTHING BEFORE THIS POST WAS DISCUSSION ON THE FIRST MIX.

 

[msi1337]

I like serenade a lot..the somewhere in space is a little too repetitive for my tastes..

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: msi1337
I like serenade a lot..the somewhere in space is a little too repetitive for my tastes..

hmmmm.... structurally, serenade is more repetitive.. but im glad you like that one at least

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Without the vocals, I think that the lead melody gets lost too easliy to the rest of what's going on. The guitar solo at the end feels much more right than the rest of the song, because it forces something other than a background beat out at the listener. I found myself trying to listen through the bass and the rythm guitar to hear the leading guitar/synth.

It might be better with vocals added, and give the song a better sense of direction. Even if you're lost you generally have some kind of a plan, and with the way the melody is tucked into the song it doesn't feel like there is much of one.


And now I have an urge to go pick up my bass

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Without the vocals, I think that the lead melody gets lost too easliy to the rest of what's going on. The guitar solo at the end feels much more right than the rest of the song, because it forces something other than a background beat out at the listener. I found myself trying to listen through the bass and the rythm guitar to hear the leading guitar/synth.

It might be better with vocals added, and give the song a better sense of direction. Even if you're lost you generally have some kind of a plan, and with the way the melody is tucked into the song it doesn't feel like there is much of one.


And now I have an urge to go pick up my bass

so should i bring the lead guitars up?

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I think that it would be good if you did, possibly turning down the rythm guitar in the middle, it came really close to distorting my speakers.

 

[linkgoron]

Seems kind of repetetive, and I don't know... after a couple of minutes, it just seemed kind of mushed up together of something...

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Maybe I'm not into the genre of music you're trying to provide but everything feels too disconnected. To the guitar, the dinging thing and the really distorted noise. I'm not sure how they help each other in the song.

the beginning should sound kinda disconnected because space was left for vocals, in the later parts of the song, id hope the lead guitar would connect things... about the sounds, dunno, they are just textures we both agreed on and thought the overall sound was kinda cool, like aphex twin plus joe satriani or something

It's not quite Satriani. This is too spacey to relate it to Satriani. The lack of organization is more Steve Vai than Joe Satriani, but this is without Vai's craziness of scattered melodies.

Personally, I think the interlude is out of place unless you're looking for an instrumental tacet for good vocal fill-ins (which I'm having a hard time imagining).

 

[Pepsi90919]

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[kevinthenerd]

It could use a simpler intro on the lead guitar. I would definitely turn it up during the solo, and it might be a good idea to give this piece some kind of ending, but then again, I'm a huge fan of songs like Stairway to Heaven and Freebird that have very elaborate beginnings and ends that don't detract from the middle portion.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Maybe I'm not into the genre of music you're trying to provide but everything feels too disconnected. To the guitar, the dinging thing and the really distorted noise. I'm not sure how they help each other in the song.

the beginning should sound kinda disconnected because space was left for vocals, in the later parts of the song, id hope the lead guitar would connect things... about the sounds, dunno, they are just textures we both agreed on and thought the overall sound was kinda cool, like aphex twin plus joe satriani or something

It's not quite Satriani. This is too spacey to relate it to Satriani. The lack of organization is more Steve Vai than Joe Satriani, but this is without Vai's craziness of scattered melodies.

Personally, I think the interlude is out of place unless you're looking for an instrumental tacet for good vocal fill-ins (which I'm having a hard time imagining).

the interlude? are you talking about the twangy weird sounding thing? yea, it was late, and my ears were tired... its gone when I get home from work.

i plan to rerecord everything once all the ideas have sunk in.