Recordings review thread?

[JJtheman]

So my band made some recordings and ofcourse we've let some people we know listen to it, but those people we know have no knowledge about stonerrock or anything closely related. Now, I'd like to have "educated" people to listen to our music and give me some feedback.

Also, since I didn't immediatly found a topic about home-made-music reviewing, I'd like to create said topic, so feel free to post your own recordings while you review some others.

https://soundcloud.com/desert-stone

(this topic is posted here in live reviews because our music happens to be completely live)

[GodShifter]

This would do better in the Jam Room, therefore I'm moving it there. Cheers.

[RacerX]

Define "do better."

[Discö Rice]

If you're going to write 10 minute songs, they should have an arc. Epic length leads to epic boredom unless something interesting happens. I got 3 and a half minutes into Wiccan Sacrament before anything changed. Why would anyone do that? There was no suspense, no tension building, just skullfuck sameness.

Here's an excellent example of building tension:

Dale doesn't hit the bass drum for the first six and a half minutes of the song, and when he finally does, it's the best thing that has ever happened in the world. Holy shit! Tension! Release! Cum everywhere!

Alternately there's this:

Not that you should pillage Black Sabbath, but I do find it strange that what people take away from Sabbath is "slow and loud", and that's it. Those guys could fucking play (and showed it), and their songs had all kinds of different shit happening throughout. I'm interested in that entire song, start to finish, because it's going somewhere. Let me ask you this - if you weren't in your band, but you were watching your band, would you sit through 3:30 of the same boring riff or would you go get a beer/smoke a joint/make a phone call and come back when it picked up a little?

[GodShifter]

Define "do better."

Get some views and/or replies.

[JemDooM]

Nice bass tone, what's the deal?

I like the samples, what did you use to record?

[JJtheman]

If you're going to write 10 minute songs, they should have an arc. Epic length leads to epic boredom unless something interesting happens. I got 3 and a half minutes into Wiccan Sacrament before anything changed. Why would anyone do that? There was no suspense, no tension building, just skullfuck sameness.

Here's an excellent example of building tension:

Dale doesn't hit the bass drum for the first six and a half minutes of the song, and when he finally does, it's the best thing that has ever happened in the world. Holy shit! Tension! Release! Cum everywhere!

Alternately there's this:

Not that you should pillage Black Sabbath, but I do find it strange that what people take away from Sabbath is "slow and loud", and that's it. Those guys could fucking play (and showed it), and their songs had all kinds of different shit happening throughout. I'm interested in that entire song, start to finish, because it's going somewhere. Let me ask you this - if you weren't in your band, but you were watching your band, would you sit through 3:30 of the same boring riff or would you go get a beer/smoke a joint/make a phone call and come back when it picked up a little?

First of all, thanks for putting some time and effort in your comment, I appreciate that.

I agree that it's quite long and the main riff is overused, so to make this interesting we should, either create tension, like that melvins song, by not playing the riff completely but rather build up to it by playing something that will give "hints" about the mainriff, so to tease the listener. And when we do play the main riff, there'll be cum everywhere. (so to speak)

OR
Like sabbath, we should add small echantments between phrases, to keep it interesting and generally awesome, and not play the same "skullfucking"(like the description btw) riff over and over, but rather improvise in between and keep the song fresh.

I think we could do both in one song, I'll bear that in mind when we do a re-take of this track.

ps. I presume your point of criticism goes for the 2 other songs aswell?

[JJtheman]

Nice bass tone, what's the deal?

I like the samples, what did you use to record?

How do you mean? Whats the deal about the bass tone? It's bass guitar with a bass muff fuzz, maxed I think, guitar's also fuzzed to the max.

The sample is something the bassist added afterwards, some sample he found somewhere I take.

The songs are recorded with this little device, does pretty well for recording live at loud volume. http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/03/gadget_gallery/olympus_recorder.jpg

[T-Bag]

Nice bass tone, what's the deal?

I like the samples, what did you use to record?

Just EHX bass big muff (w/ quite a lot of sustain) through a pretty standard ampeg amp. Boosted lows and highs, and cut off some mids.

The 'vocal sample' was added with Audacity, and the whole thing recorded (as mentioned earlier) with an olympus handheld recorder.

[JJtheman]

Nice bass tone, what's the deal?

I like the samples, what did you use to record?

Just EHX bass big muff (w/ quite a lot of sustain) through a pretty standard ampeg amp. Boosted lows and highs, and cut off some mids.

The 'vocal sample' was added with Audacity, and the whole thing recorded (as mentioned earlier) with an olympus handheld recorder.

AHAHAHA, T-Bag toch nu nog den aaron