The basschat review bar and grill

[Wil]

So, this thread is intended as a consolidated place for basschatters to get their recordings reviewed. It may well not work, but worth a go!

The rule is, in order to post your own recording up for review, you must first listen to the piece posted before yours and offer an honest, constructive review. No need for war and peace, just take the time to listen to your fellow basschatter's offerings and offer a few thoughts.

To get things started, someone post a recording (if no one does I'll be forced to post one of my own, and you dont want that)!

Edited March 10, 2011 by Wil

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Wil' post='1156911' date='Mar 10 2011, 05:10 PM']To get things started, someone post a recording (if no one does I'll be forced to post one of my own, and you dont want that)![/quote]
(Yes we do.)

[ped]

Nice idea. I have a short clip at hand of a full song, I'll replace it when I track the full version down!! Hops it's OK, I'm sure some people here have heard it before, even..

[url="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85432/USB%203/Sticky%20Situation.mp3"]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85432/USB%203/Stic...20Situation.mp3[/url]

Basically a clip from an album that's still being mixed down and finished... that's my brother on drums and pissing about in the vocal booth... just a bit of a laugh really!

[Wil]

[quote name='ped' post='1157094' date='Mar 10 2011, 07:42 PM']Nice idea. I have a short clip at hand of a full song, I'll replace it when I track the full version down!! Hops it's OK, I'm sure some people here have heard it before, even..

[url="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85432/USB%203/Sticky%20Situation.mp3"]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85432/USB%203/Stic...20Situation.mp3[/url]

Basically a clip from an album that's still being mixed down and finished... that's my brother on drums and pissing about in the vocal booth... just a bit of a laugh really![/quote]

That's a really clear mix! The bass comes through very nicely - is that your Vigier? Sounds clear as a bell. I particularly like the parts where it drops out and back in, it's nice to hear a bit of space in a recording. All in all, very funky, nice job

Here's a track I'm working on at the moment. No bass on it currently - to be honest I dont think it would sound right without a fretless or an upright, neither of which I have currently. It's the first outing for my recently aquired violin (£20 off ebay - bargain!).

[url="http://wilmiles.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-track"]http://wilmiles.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-track[/url]

[MythSte]

[quote name='Wil' post='1157120' date='Mar 10 2011, 08:10 PM']That's a really clear mix! The bass comes through very nicely - is that your Vigier? Sounds clear as a bell. I particularly like the parts where it drops out and back in, it's nice to hear a bit of space in a recording. All in all, very funky, nice job

Here's a track I'm working on at the moment. No bass on it currently - to be honest I dont think it would sound right without a fretless or an upright, neither of which I have currently. It's the first outing for my recently aquired violin (£20 off ebay - bargain!).

[url="http://wilmiles.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-track"]http://wilmiles.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-track[/url][/quote]

I really enjoyed that! The violin is really tasteful - I wish I had the patience to try and learn something similar. Kinda reminds me of the slower sections in some Brand New Tracks. I'd love to hear a really fragile female vocal over it.

This is my lots latest demo, a few vocals are missing as are a few cues, but I like it so far

[url="http://soundcloud.com/mythste/martin-rimmer"]http://soundcloud.com/mythste/martin-rimmer[/url]

p.s, great Idea Wil

[WHUFC BASS]

I quite like that, reminds me of early Deep Purple in places. Quite a blanced mix although for some reason the crash cymbal sounds over compressed. Good mix apart from that.

Our effort from our first album...

[Wil]

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='1157151' date='Mar 10 2011, 08:29 PM']I quite like that, reminds me of early Deep Purple in places. Quite a blanced mix although for some reason the crash cymbal sounds over compressed. Good mix apart from that.

Our effort from our first album...[/quote]

That's wicked - it's got that real classic British punk sound. I see what you meant about the guitar solo in another thread, I think it'd probably be much improved with a proper valve amp mic'd up - tonewise it's a bit fizzy. Besides that, it's great. Bass cuts through nicely but it's not overly harsh, nice sparkly top end.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Wil

[karlfer]

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='1157151' date='Mar 10 2011, 08:29 PM']I quite like that, reminds me of early Deep Purple in places. Quite a blanced mix although for some reason the crash cymbal sounds over compressed. Good mix apart from that.

Our effort from our first album...[/quote]

Love it. Captures the fire of the bands of the time, but with a more up to date feel. .
Just great punk power, I'd love to hear it through a hi-fi, will figure how to do that eventually.

Hopefully attached is our effort for promoters, 1 track of 5 track CD (warning, old fart rockers alert).
The mix sounds great through my old Technics hi-fi, yet absolutely crap through my laptop.
Ideas gratefully received.

[WHUFC BASS]

[quote name='karlfer' post='1158230' date='Mar 11 2011, 04:00 PM']Love it. Captures the fire of the bands of the time, but with a more up to date feel. .
Just great punk power, I'd love to hear it through a hi-fi, will figure how to do that eventually.[/quote]

Thanks for the kind words mate! Much appreciated.

[quote]Hopefully attached is our effort for promoters, 1 track of 5 track CD (warning, old fart rockers alert).
The mix sounds great through my old Technics hi-fi, yet absolutely crap through my laptop.
Ideas gratefully received.[/quote]

Nice overall sound, but if you want some constructive criticism:

1. I found in places that the tempo fluctuated. Maybe an idea to get the drummer to play with a click-track.
2. Guitar was a touch quite - both rhythm and lead
3. Bass cut through very nicely, just needs to be less busy in places and it will improve the song no end.
4. Vocals were on the whole very good, just could do with coming up in the mix slightly.

Aside from that, not a bad effort at all... reminded me of Bad Company in parts.

[urb]

I've just pinned this so hopefully you guys can make it a regular stop for anyone with a new demo/tune they want some feedback on...

M

[karlfer]

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='1158335' date='Mar 11 2011, 05:27 PM']Thanks for the kind words mate! Much appreciated.



Nice overall sound, but if you want some constructive criticism:

1. I found in places that the tempo fluctuated. Maybe an idea to get the drummer to play with a click-track.
2. Guitar was a touch quite - both rhythm and lead
3. Bass cut through very nicely, just needs to be less busy in places and it will improve the song no end.
4. Vocals were on the whole very good, just could do with coming up in the mix slightly.

Aside from that, not a bad effort at all... reminded me of Bad Company in parts.[/quote]

Many thanks, I was completely bricking it about sharing this, but it's all stuff that can be sorted. Not the 1st time I've had the "busy", and very true sadly. Our SkinsMeister has a T Shirt "How do you want it, too fast or too slow" .
We are just a live pub/covers band (except for couple of tracks like that one), so "demo" studio etc, completely novice.
Cheers for pointers,
Karl.

[stonecoldbass]

Cool thread guys!
Here is my bands EP, with one original tune (penned by yours truly) and I also mixed and mastered the thing.
We're all pretty proud of how it turned out, but would appreciate any feedback you guys may have as we have still to get round to pressing hard copies.
http://soundcloud.com/pickpocket-1/sets/pickpocket-the-stolen
Hope you like it!
Cheers
C

[ivok80]

Awesome! Exactly my cup of tea! Reminds me of Freddie Hubbard in places... great effort guys! Have you got a website where i can find out about gigs?

Here's a spotify link to my album which i did earlier this year. As old-fashioned as it sounds, i would have to describe the style as 'jazz-funk':-)
[url="http://open.spotify.com/album/1ZzlwiWoHlCO3XdtCScVB0"]Vinzenz Benjamin – Solid State[/url]

Feedback please!

[stonecoldbass]

Thanks Ivok80! Some of the early Hubbard stuff is awesome, so I appreciate the comparison! Just listening to your album just now, very cool. Great clean production, tight ass playing and some classic bass tones man! What gear did you use? Also, So much oil is one of my fave TOP tunes
You can check us out on Facebook:
[url="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pickpocket/228602740484756"]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pickpocket/228602740484756[/url]
C

[ivok80]

Thanks for the link.
I used mostly fender jazz basses. The album was recorded in many different studios, but all mixed in pro tools through a toft 32 channel console.

[steveireland]

Hi Heres a couple of tracks off my alybum 'Crazybassman' hope you like!

all comments etc greatly received.
[attachment=100947:Transpire.mp3]
[attachment=100948:Urora.mp3]

[musophilr]

[quote name='stonecoldbass' timestamp='1317862032' post='1395637']
Cool thread guys!
Here is my bands EP, with one original tune (penned by yours truly) and I also mixed and mastered the thing.
We're all pretty proud of how it turned out, but would appreciate any feedback you guys may have as we have still to get round to pressing hard copies.
[url="http://soundcloud.com/pickpocket-1/sets/pickpocket-the-stolen"]http://soundcloud.co...cket-the-stolen[/url]
Hope you like it!
Cheers
C
[/quote]

Excellent. Thought the snare was a bit "hot" but when the horns came in it was just right. Loverly reverb on the trumpet, expert guitar solo (wish I could play like that). Good bass groove. Nice tight ending.


Here's some of my crap

[url="http://soundcloud.com/phil-aka-pip/experiment-1"]http://soundcloud.com/phil-aka-pip/experiment-1[/url]

Probably WIP, after I'd mixed it I thought of a few other things to do with it

[musophilr]

[quote name='steveireland' timestamp='1330167905' post='1553588']
Hi Heres a couple of tracks off my alybum 'Crazybassman' hope you like!

all comments etc greatly received.
[attachment=100947:Transpire.mp3]
[attachment=100948:Urora.mp3]
[/quote]

How do you open those? In your post they don't have mp3 extensions so my computer doesn't know what to do with them.

Edit: clicking on the files in the quote opens them and iTunes is now playing ...

[b]Transpire[/b] The rhythm sounds like it should be african drums but its all different instruments with a guitar that sounds a bit like John Lennon playing slide on an Epiphone Casino, then a nice little bassy break which builds up with drums & other things getting added until we get back to the original groove. There's a lot of instruments in that mix.

[b]Urora[/b] Lovely fretless intro. Then more african drums. The electric bass is not always an easy instrument to feature in a full mix hence a lot of bands include a bass solo in the breakdown of a song. But here is a really good attempt at making it the lead instrument and Steve manages it without the bass splatting everything else in the mix. Well done Sir! (how did you do it or is that a trade secret?)

Edited March 19, 2012 by musophilr

[ShergoldSnickers]

This has got some favourable comments on [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/173575-just-a-bit-of-fun-how-many-mics/"]another thread[/url], much to my surprise. As explained elsewhere, the core of the song was done in one take as improvised, and then cut down, with various keyboard noises added afterwards. Still to be finally mixed but not far off.

Track title - '[url="http://www.fear-of-bicycles.co.uk/BC/mp3s/Phosphoribosylformylglycinamide-flavour.mp3"]Phosphoribosylformylglycinamide-flavour[/url]'

Edited May 9, 2012 by ShergoldSnickers

[Twigman]

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' timestamp='1334943960' post='1623955']


Track title - '[url="http://Track%20title%20-%20"]Phosphoribosylformylglycinamide flavour[/url]'
[/quote]

Floyd meets Ozric Tentacles....how do you know where you are in the track? Sounds fun to jam...







OK this is an instrumental I am working on for the next SL&G album...this one is all me:
[b] [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/108716769"]http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/108716769[/url][/b]

[Wil]

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1336548006' post='1647153']
Floyd meets Ozric Tentacles....how do you know where you are in the track? Sounds fun to jam...


OK this is an instrumental I am working on for the next SL&G album...this one is all me:
[b] [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/108716769"]http://www.reverbnat.../poni/108716769[/url][/b]
[/quote]

Nice. Lots of nice variation around the theme, kept my interest throughout. Reminds me of Pink Floyd, in terms of style. Will this eventually be tracked with mic'd instruments? It'd be nice to hear real cello/keys/sax on there with some room ambience. Melodically it's a nice track, well done!

Here's an old demo I'm currently working on. Need to add some more sections, flesh out the vocal and re-record the guitars amped up (current guitars are guide tracks done with amplitube).

[url="http://soundcloud.com/wil-miles/spaceporpoise-20th-may"]http://soundcloud.co...rpoise-20th-may[/url]

Edited May 23, 2012 by Wil

[CPBass]

This is a live recording of Pat Grover & The Hawks at Tenby Blues Festival. Very much a scratch blues band so not rehearsed, recording a bit sketchy but your feedback, comments and bass related constructive criticism welcome.

http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_13322887

I'm off to listen to you guys play ;-)

Hope you enjoy

[Wil]

Please remember that in the Bar and Grill, you must review the piece posted before yours when posting

I'm not just saying that because it was my piece, honest!

[Rothers]

Here are new studio recordings of four cover songs from our setlist. I'm particularly proud of the bass sound we captured on London Calling. Feel free to tell me what you think;

[url="http://thesynthetix.com/#/music/4554214421"]http://thesynthetix....usic/4554214421[/url]

Edited November 7, 2012 by Rothers

[Wil]

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1337851862' post='1666279']
[b]Please remember that in the Bar and Grill, you must review the piece posted before yours when posting[/b]
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