Hard Rock / Metal - Your Suggestions Please!

[mcanty]

This is a new project I am working on................more hard rock and metal than I have in the past. This song is called "My Way Down"I would like your opinions on:a) the songb) the productionc) what can I do to add more of a sense of urgency to the song?Thanks,Markhttp://www.taximusic.com/stream/207019/My%20Wa ... Master.mp3

[mcanty]

I'm getting some bizzare playback when I stream this. let me know if you have any trouble. If you hear any glitches in the playback, it is not the recording just the stream. I'll see if I can fix it

[billg]

Your voice is good as always but there's something strange going on with the eq/compression or something, especially in the low end. The snare drum sounds strange too so I'm gonna make a guess that it has something to do with compression on the drums (?).Hopefully someone who is a better engineer than me can chime in, pin- point the problem and help out.

[mcanty]

thanks bill................did you have any problems streaming the song?anybody else? Please let it fly, I don't get offended.People who listen to current hard rock metal, need your comments

[inhisownwords]

I am very much into modern rock/metal and I also know very little about production. What you have there is a fantastic song! The vocal is fantastic, but the music just doesn't do you justice. It needs a lot more body and low end. I think the main problem for me was the drum track, it lacks any real punch or drive. What did you use for the kit sounds? I also think that the song loses momentum in the middle section, if it's a guitar solo you wanted, then I think it needs to be a lot more 'blistering' to take the track to a new level.So, what I'm saying is that the melody and vocal are really worth investing in, so what you need is the music and production to match.I would actually be very interested in working on it with you should you fancy that?Let me know mate!

[carlosgomez]

The taxi host has been behaving strangely for a few months from what I can tell. You probably copied and pasted the download link from you site. So it looks like this: http://www.taximusic.com/stream/207019/ ... er.mp3Nine out of ten times it will give a server error the first or second time you click it. Instead if you change the link to : http://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_ ... am=trueyou should get better results.There is disaster in the drums and bottom end overall. I trust that they sound much better in your DAW. How about when you mix down to wav? You have a button on somewhere that needs to be turned off.Great vocs!

[digidog]

First problem after listening to the first 10 seconds is your source recordings.How are you recording the guitars and drums? The drum module rather?You'll want to fix that and open up your frequency response to you are really capturing what you intend to capture. I don't think you can boost this much without unnatural artifacts.However I am noticing on the oscilloscope a clear lack of that 200-400- hz area. Kill that compression until you get the sources corrected.Vocals are pretty good.Over all the song is actually pretty good. Just gotta fix the recording.One suggestion I might have for you is to drive those guitar power chords a bit more.. 8th notes open, don't mute anything. It'll modernize that sound.There are some really small timing issues, i suspect that's within the lock between guitars and drums.

[t4mh]

Vocals and songs are great. The only thing I have a problem with is the sound of the snare drum. It sounds like you are trying for a high pitched crispy snare sound. I would use a lower pitched "bonk" ( heehee ) snare sound.Good song! I like metal and believe it or not, I am not a drummer.Keith