ISTRA's latest.

[MichaelAlan]

Check it. Let me know what you think. Don't care that much? Awesome, let's go make a snowman!

www.istramusic.com/allalright.mp3

[glagola1]

Man, I don't envy you having to record that kind of music. Not that there is anything wrong with it. It's just that it's so stylized and there is a certain way it should sound... if you aiming for that.

It's a lot easier to just record the instruments the way they sound and see what happens with the mix.

I don't really know how to do any of that style recording so I can't offer much except that the bass guitar seems to plow every thing down occasionaly.

Over all it sounds pretty decent though.

Matt

[MichaelAlan]

We don't wanna be decent. We wanna sound like Disturbed.


Mike

[texlop]

Sounds pretty Good. The Drums need to be brought way out. A lot of Mainstream stuff like Disturbed always have drums out there with the guitars in this song they seem a little buried especially the snare.

Why disturbed? Musically they are good I just don't like their singer, But that is the beauty of taste in your own music.

[MichaelAlan]

C'mon now. You couldn't see my sarcastic tone? i guess I was typing so seriously.

Disturbed is the worst band in the world no matter what anyone says. i was being sarcastic. We just wanna sound like us.


Mike

[dynomike]

Sounds pretty Good. The Drums need to be brought way out. A lot of Mainstream stuff like Disturbed always have drums out there with the guitars in this song they seem a little buried especially the snare.

Why disturbed? Musically they are good I just don't like their singer, But that is the beauty of taste in your own music.

Are you kidding about the snare? It pops like crazy! I could use a bigger snare and kick personally... they seem a little focused and pop out rather than being a broader sound...

I know, kick in this style is supposed to be tiny. But for it to sound big, it needs to lock with a fat, low bass. I'd work on getting a thicker bass sound and just getting the playing to lock in closer to the bass. Overall it sounds pretty good, (far as I can tell with the bad mp3) but I think it needs just tighter playing overall to take it to the next level.

The guitars sound good, but it would be cool to occassionally have some phaser/delay stuff going on to widen the sound I guess. Same deal on vocals. This style, imo, likes lots of processing, so go nuts!

Anyway, sounds pretty loud and mean.. which is a good start, I'd just work on tightening the rhythm of the playing, make the bass and snare a little bigger, and futz with some effects!

Mike

[MichaelAlan]

To tell you the truth..I hate this recording. We have just been stalling on the new record for so long I wanted to put something up. If you want my crackalackin snare secret PM me.

Mike