Critique My New Fuzzy Band of Sorts

[Ghost Hip]

So PumkinPieces, I have a stupid question, there were keys in that, no? What kind of synth were you using? (I didn't listen to it again today, so I hope I'm remembering the right piece)

That's actually a guitar through a Sunny Day Delay and Malekko 616 and maybe a Dark Boost.

[theactionindex]

rockin the double delayyyyy.

[dubkitty]

the playing in general is excellent. the singing is good. the atmospherics are terrific.
the composition is very good. nice deployment of the key-change-for-mid-song-solo strategy.
hooray for bassists who know how to do something other than play the 1-5.
it doesn't sound derivative

putting my producer hat on:
the bass drum is kind of too busy, especially in the quiet parts; the combination of the kick and the bass guitar gets muddy when things get loud. i hate to say it should be changed, though, because it has a kind of New Orleans feel that adds to the atmo. if you were trying to perfect things, it could probably be fixed in the mix with a combination of tweaking the volume and position of the kick drum hits and/or the frequencies of the bass and kick.
it would probably sound really cool if you harmonized in an angular kind of X or Jefferson Airplane style...not so consonant as shoegaze, y'know? with your vocal timbres it would sound especially boss with the female vox singing the low part.
for my taste, the chorus could have repeated longer at the end before it quieted down. but then, i'm an old stoner and like my spacy shit loooooooong.
it sounds like it's overloading somewhere around 6000-8000 Hz in the mix when all the fuzz is happening, with the combination of the multiple fuzzes and the loud cymbals. if this is a deliberate stylistic decision on your part, ignore this comment.

the thing is, it doesn't sound like something people came up with fucking around...it sounds like a group.

[Ghost Hip]

Thanks man, especially for the last comment there. I was thinking of making a song with her singing the lower part and me singing falsetto harmonies. (Kind of like the pixies do sometimes). She finds it funny that I can sing higher than her. Can't say if the overload was intentional or not, I was using the SYLE mind eraser fuzz with a Torn's Peaker so it was a pretty notched sound. I did want my guitar tone to be unique and ethereally fuzzy. ,I'll have to take a listen again with the Bass drum, not sure what I can do since it's a sequenced loop maybe just adjust the volume of it individually.

The mind eraser is weird. With it + the torn's peaker whenever I turned the tone knob on my guitar up it was gated, no noise what so ever. However roll the tone knob back and all sorts of noise and ghostly oscillation comes in. I have no idea wtf....lol. Anywho...

Thanks again, we appreciate the input.

the playing in general is excellent. the singing is good. the atmospherics are terrific.
the composition is very good. nice deployment of the key-change-for-mid-song-solo strategy.
hooray for bassists who know how to do something other than play the 1-5.
it doesn't sound derivative

putting my producer hat on:
the bass drum is kind of too busy, especially in the quiet parts; the combination of the kick and the bass guitar gets muddy when things get loud. i hate to say it should be changed, though, because it has a kind of New Orleans feel that adds to the atmo. if you were trying to perfect things, it could probably be fixed in the mix with a combination of tweaking the volume and position of the kick drum hits and/or the frequencies of the bass and kick.
it would probably sound really cool if you harmonized in an angular kind of X or Jefferson Airplane style...not so consonant as shoegaze, y'know? with your vocal timbres it would sound especially boss with the female vox singing the low part.
for my taste, the chorus could have repeated longer at the end before it quieted down. but then, i'm an old stoner and like my spacy shit loooooooong.
it sounds like it's overloading somewhere around 6000-8000 Hz in the mix when all the fuzz is happening, with the combination of the multiple fuzzes and the loud cymbals. if this is a deliberate stylistic decision on your part, ignore this comment.

the thing is, it doesn't sound like something people came up with fucking around...it sounds like a group.

[dubkitty]

I'll have to take a listen again with the Bass drum, not sure what I can do since it's a sequenced loop maybe just adjust the volume of it individually.

it's hard to tell listening on computer speakers--even though i have decent speakers and a subwoofer--but it sounds like some judicious EQing of the kick and the bass would do the trick. i think there's something in the subs that's conflicting, maybe down around 80-100Hz?

[jfrey]

Sounds sweet.