The Gambit - Eric Beaudoin (Christian rock by a novice)

Interesting track. Nice riffs.

Bass guitar timing is a bit loose. If you're using a DAW you can probably chop the individual sound bytes up and shift them back and forth on the timeline just a bit.

Find the emotion you want in the words and put it in your voice. The first few words sound like you're reading from a script. (It gets better after that though.)

Try doing an echo-fade on the repeating "paradigm." Just a suggestion, not a necessity.

What is your DAW, by the way? And are you using virtual instruments, recording real instruments you play or a mix?

Hey thanks gor the awesome feed back. I'll comment in series.
Bass guitar is a bit loose. I agree. I played it once and moved on. It definitely needs work, that wad me improvising and I see that it is noticeable. When. I have so e time I'll record a new bass track and try to improve it, or atlwast quantize like you suggested. It's rather easy to do it, and I did it with some of the guitar.

Thanks about the script reading comment. I rarely sing so I think I will keep recording until I. Able to summon some type of emotion Haha. Thanks for telling g me it got better lol. I felt more confident ad I kept singing. It would be great to start at that level!

As for the paradigm repeating, it actually is an echo. Maybe not apprent because it's not fading the volume ? I'll add a fade, that's a great idea.

I'm using Fl studio. The drums are virtual, and there is a virtual guitar synthetic at one point plus some of the fx is virtual and some is real. I also have guitar rhythm I'm playing on my guitar, and some lead like the tapping and aome other parts on my ibanez. The bass was by my guitar also Haha. I mean to borrow a bass and try to record something.

I use some side chaining, lots of reverb, echo and eq. And a lot of panning and automation.

Thank you for the kind feed back




Also EternalFire Thank you for your input too. I think k that's a great Idea. I'm a bit hesitating because my skill level is still in the haphazard zone where I'm often like, how did I end up making this? When it sounds good. So you can tell a bit by the lack of cohesion and that is definitely and area where a helping hand could guide me to bring things together a bit more!


Lastly, excuse my Grammer and spelling. I am using my cell and do not have a lot of time at the moment to proof read.

FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is pretty good, and not at all pricey. Good choice.

The virtual/real instruments you listed were exactly what my ear heard. I was just curious how accurate I was.
EDIT: Er... I mean I didn't identify exactly what each instrument was, but I was curious whether I identified the difference between virtual and real instruments accurately.

The panning was lost on me because I listened to it on a phone... A rather cheap one.

I know the "How did I end up making this?" feeling. I felt the same way when my "Chasing After You" soundtrack came out sounding so well on the chorus. I wonder if I'll ever be able to do that again. Haven't found out yet because I haven't found another song I want to make a soundtrack for that sounded like that.

I'd love to hear some things you made if you would like to share.