That has to be a level.

that. is. awesome!!!!

What a rough crowd! lol Thanks for checking my song out.

Thanks jmitchell42. I'm glad you liked it.

Moo: I started writing last summer. I have 2 or 3 other songs on the forum under the username PrettyVacant. After the big shutdown I was unable to get a new password. I lurk the SoundClick forums but I haven't joined. I belong to another songwriter forum. I checked out your stuff from your first post. The quality on those songs is amazing. It's much better than some of the cds I have. Nice work.

I'll bring the good times, you bring the snacks

...no doubt about it, we're gonna relax


LOL Had quite a good time listening to that song, level or not

Hey Lounging, which is the other forum you peruse? Good songwriting forums are hard to find. Harmony Central frowns on people posting their own stuff in the songwriting forum (which i find retarded) and many other ones just don't have any activity. I saw one were all the threads had no more than 2 replies.

SC is pretty slow but the monthly contests are worth while if you can invest the time in them. There are some solid writers over there and it's a good crowd to be in for the most part.

Also thanks for checking out the toonz.

I joined this one: http://www.thesongwritersforum.com/forum/ It was the first one I found that didn't look like a ghost town.

It isn't bad. The people are friendly. Most of the regulars are knowledgeable. You'll have to sign up if you want to see most of the content on there. Tell them HankTheTank sent you! lol

I see that SC forums have a contest going on right now. That does look fun. I'll have to sign up.

I did another one.. more are on the way too. Let me know what you think? Post more!

Skull Killers - http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11769619

That's certainly a barrage of styles. I'm not sure I buy them together, and the lyrics don't give me a clue to what you're trying to express with the musical contrast. I'd really like to poke at your process for creating this song, cause I feel like there's something going on that isn't getting to the final result.

I have a couple things ready to record and post, and was going to do that this week, but then I hurt my wrist. It seems to be healing well but needs a few more days.

Good stuff moo buckets. The verses kind of have an '80s feel but the chorus is kind of classic punk. I couldn't tell you what the song is about but I like the way it sounded.

Here's my latest. I don't care much for social commentary songs because they seem so preachy but I wanted to write one. I've been working on my singing and music production. I think I did a little better than the last one I posted on here.

http://www.soundclick.com/player/sin...&q=hi&newref=1

At first I wanted to stop it. I don't know why I let it play till the end, but I did. I like **** like Half Man Half Biscuit, which this reminded me of, although his lyrics are much more clever than these.

On your social commentary song. Em again, I don't like the lyrics. If they said something interesting, or maybe the same thing in an interesting way, I might like it.

Try different guitar sounds too, although for some reason I kind of like the combination of your vocals and guitar.

Lyrics seem to obvious and lacking in real substance though.

Hey Lounging I listened, how are you doing the drums? this might sound better with a remix where the drums are louder perhaps? Idk. sounds like punk rock! now do a really fast one for me

Thanks for the listen Diego. I have never heard of Half Man Half Biscuit. I'll check them out.

Thanks for the mixing advice moo buckets. The drums and bass are Ableton Live MIDIs. I'm kind of lost in the mixing department right now. What little mixing I originally did was through my headphones. A couple of weeks ago a friend played one of my songs through his TV and it sounded like ass so I'm paying more attention now. I'm trying to strike a balance between my decent headphones and my crappy PC speakers. Poor quality recording equipment probably doesn't help.

I'll see if I can do a really fast song once I finish what I'm working on right now. I'm not sure if my mediocre guitar skills can handle it though.

Invest in some speakers, dude. You can't mix on headphones.

here's what i recommend: mix the drums first, then bass, then guitars, then vocals.

Even good speakers can be tricky because no matter what you use to mix, you'll notice it sounds completely different everywhere else you hear it.

also, if you have a fast drum beat you don't necessarily need fast guitars. experiment with that, too!!!!!! you might be surprised what you find

I would advise mixing the vocals after the rhythm section, and leaving everything else till after that.

Of course that's true, you can't change the laws of physics, but you also can't mix on headphones. You should be aiming to get a mix that works well at a reasonable level on two speakers positioned at each end of the hypotenuse, with you at the right angle of an equilateral triangle.

lol I don't know if I worded that correctly. I need a siesta and it seems funny.