Seems that you had some xruns during recording of the drum tracks?
Or what else do those black carets mean?
I like the overall sound and especially the expression in your vocals. Keep doing that.
However, the song as a whole feels like a left-over from the loudness wars era, as if you try to hit some final limiter as hard as possible.
Due to that I think that the vocals get pushed back in some places and it sounds like they always have to fight with everything else to be present in the foreground…
Anyway: keep going on. I’d love to hear more songs like that.
Correct No audible artifacts though (luckily) so I just let it be.
Haha you’re right actually And I absolutely despise the loudness wars, ironically… As you can see in the first screenshot, the dynamics really should be there in theory but somehow it still sounds like shit… And to be brutally honest, I really struggled to match the loudness of all the other tracks from this collection and keep this song interesting etc. And I think I failed the tune in this regard.
Both this and another song I just finished were rushed and I was quite lazy / complacent in finishing them really… But I don’t want to go back and try fix them because it just feels like I’m polishing turds.
Anyhow, massive thanks again for having a listen! I really appreciate it big time
Thanks again for your critical ear and kind feedback, slash I’ve just finished remixing the tune (work’s slow today…) and I think it’s loads better now (or at least a bit less shit… )
This is awesome! OMG, would be so cool to see played live with the various breaks and drops throughout! Great guitar tones and drum sounds and quite riffilicious throughout. And the vocals are SO GOOD! Did your eyes bleed when you tracked these!!??
Thank you Glen! Eye bleedage is a common problem when I do vox sessions And yeah I absolutely love blasting my 1986 Yamaha MSG through a Sansamp chain to produce these guitar tones Thank you so much for having a listen man!
Thank you ardourwlk I really appreciate you having a listen. Yeah 7/4 is like my favourite time sig ever Especially love flicking between 8/4 and 7/4. The world needs more of that.
Edit; and Merry Chrimbo to yous both Hope yous have a lovely few days.
A wee listen, eh? There’s another word beginning with “w” that I burst into when I heard the first bar, and that’s WOAAAAHHH!
Like I said before, not exactly my cup of tea musically, but you make it sound so cool and groovy, I really like it. The dramaturgy (care to share the lyrics?) and dynamics are quite sophisticated again. And your voice and the singing are really good and fit the tune, mix it to foreground! That last tone at the end of the song is pure Bon Scott, you really don’t have to hide yourself.
Go forth, Lord Dinglefinger, and bring back lots more of these tunes,
Massive thanks, Lord Emporer Dr Fineweather! Hugely appreciate you listening and posting the kind feedback
Aye sure thing boss
nun bomb
My love, you took me by the hand, you took me in and then you took me down And aging faces, failing space is all I see when I look around How come you turn and face the door each time I try to get up off the ground? My love, I see it all, I feel it all
Hey, well I don’t wanna talk about it I’m caught between space and time Living in the cesspit Standing on the firing line
Suicide, while standing at the alter, putting on the show of a lifetime And I feel, in the faintest sense, a total loss of all control As I stare into Jesus’ eyes - the shame of what’s become of humankind Our saviour sees it all. He sees you all
You infidels, I believed in myself And all you people let me down Amen to the failure once again Now drive that stake into my heart
I come unglued, come undone, for the final time And all I held, in these hands, set on fire Pulled aside by a Sister in her prime She went on down, I held my breath and I saw the light
Hey, well I don’t wanna talk about it I’m caught between space and time Living in the cesspit Standing on the firing line Hey, well I don’t wanna hear about it I’m so sick of being undermined And living like I give a shit A betrayal of the paradigm
I see you’re using ‘Whyp’ which I’ve never heard of before… Do you like it? Do you know if it has any sort of AI scraper prevention features? Now that I’m off the big Streamers and since IDK how much confidence I have in Bandcamp I was considering just hosting my stuff on my website and Whyp looks like an interesting embed option but I’d want to know how data-safe it is, any idea?
*EDIT I found their support email conveniently buried at the bottom of their webpage, I have sent a query and will see if they reply…
Sorry Glen I couldn’t find anything on them re: AI scraping prevention unfortunately It’s not something I considered - I just wanted a cheap way to share tracks and found Whyp which is free and simple etc.
Could you please update us here when you get a response from them? They’re a small operation and I can’t imagine they’ve implemented anything on the AI scrape prevention front but would love to be wrong about that…!
I actually did get a reply from the Whyp dev! They are taking some precautions already and prepared to do more. For my part I told him nobody I’m aware of is really being open about being a safe haven for the growing diaspora of musicians who want data security, I realize that Bandcamp has some measures in place as well but I think this would be an excellent marketing lever for services that already compete with the big Streamers. Of course these measures rely on the scrapers to essentially abide by rules that are difficult to enforce and likely easy to circumvent…
Whyp uses Cloudflare to block certain bots from scraping the site. We also set the “ai-train=no” content signal which requests that websites do not to train AI on our content. Of course there’s no easy way to know which bots to allow/block or to enforce them to respect our no training request. As AI scraping becomes more of an issue we may look at other ways we can prevent it.
Aye sure thing My real name’s Daniel though, in case you prefer using real names Willy Dinglefinger is just a fun pseudonym I came up with a long time ago and use it online sometimes.
Thanks for looking into this, Glen and for kindly updating here. It feels like pushing a rock up a mountain but it’s nonetheless reassuring that hosting sites (even free ones…) are aware of the issue and actively taking steps to mitigate or hopefully negate the problem.
I’ve always had much respect and admiration for Bandcamp (I have old music on there) so I’d be disappointed if they were doing nothing on the LLM front.
Merry Christmas everyone!
No audible artifacts though (luckily) so I just let it be.
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Hope yous have a lovely few days.
It’s not something I considered - I just wanted a cheap way to share tracks and found Whyp which is free and simple etc.