On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:33:16 +1100, Stuart Allie <Stuart.Allie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for the comments. > > > > Comments, criticism, suggestions, chocolate; all are welcome. > > > > Sorry, no chocolate ;) > > Oh well, it never hurts to ask ;) > > > About the tunes, In my youth I could have totally listened to this, > > reminds me > > of Tony McAlpine which I listened to quite a bit a long time ago. > > Since then I fear I have grown away from this genre. > > When I first started playing guitar was when the whole Shrapnel Records > thing started happening, with MacAlpine, Malmsteen, Becker, Friedman > etc. They were (and still are I guess...) a big influence on me. I gave > up playing for about 10 years (hand problems) and recently picked the > guitar up again, and dug out all my old CD's (and some LPs!). I've > started to get more into the "progressive rock" (Dream Theater, Arena, > Pain of Salvation, ...) genre now but it hasn't really filtered into my > playing yet. > > > The solo guitars sound quite nice especially when the two guitars play > > "against" each other, they should be upfront in the mix and they are, > > there's > > a little much guitar-noise at times perhaps, not much more to say, > > possibly > > they are bit over the top with effects, but I guess that comes with > the > > territory. > > I'm starting to realise that the amount of distortion is *way* over the > top. Sounded good through the speaker when I was playing it, but > listening to it now, well, I wish I could go back and turn the "drive" > knob way down. > totaly in agree, maybe by adding the same guitar with different distro. or like i like especialy a acustic guitar, giving a brightness that is missed in the distortion.. it's not my kind of sound but i liked the more composed theme, keep on! > > The backing arrangements seem quite nicely laid out, I think they > sound a > > bit > > synthetic though. I think they would improve alot just by changing the > > sounds/soundfonts, whatever you are using, to something of higher > quality. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I've just collected a bunch of soundfonts, so > I should be able to do something about this. I hope to start using > hydrogen for drum tracks soon, so I should get some better drum sounds > out of that (I haven't really found any good drum soundfonts yet.) > > > > > That's about all I can think of at the moment :) > > Keep it up! > > /Robert > > Thanks for the encouragement. > > Cheers, > Stuart > >
