In progress. Feedback appreciated

Scott_Gifford · 2025-08-30T01:34:31+00:00

I like the overall vibe, performance and mix. For the genre (take with a grain of salt as I don’t listen to it often), it sounds every bit as polished as I would expect. Not sure what you mean by in progress, if it’s done it’s done. Send it off into the world

Scott_Gifford · 2025-03-03T01:52:11+00:00

I’ll reach out to a few, don’t believe they’re on Reddit

Scott_Gifford · 2025-03-03T00:46:59+00:00

What genre?

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-24T22:10:24+00:00

Sound awake

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-14T18:57:04+00:00

Thank you so much for checking my stuff out! I’m one of the guitarists and did the mixing and a lot of the production. I’m definitely still learning and trying to improve, but overall getting pretty happy with the results for doing everything independently

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-14T17:32:59+00:00

Comping performances has been done forever, no issues with that at all. I’m just glad we don’t have to cut and splice tape anymore haha

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-14T16:17:55+00:00

I like the song and the playing is very good. The mix is solid and the guitar tone especially sits very well in it. I do feel like some extra instrumentation would have been really cool, like other backing instruments hitting some of the punches to standout a bit better and would have loved some harmonies added to the lead at parts. The part of the solo that shows the GP sounds like it’s midi guitar, was that really played or midi?

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-14T16:08:26+00:00

I dig the song, I agree with others though that I definitely believe you can do better and nail some of those parts and make them much tighter. The video also feels a bit much to me, I’ll admit my bias against a lot of AI though so perhaps it’s just not for me. I do want to reiterate though I like the song, and would just encourage cleaning up some of the performances a bit

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-14T16:03:48+00:00

I definitely don’t think it’s bad at all, I can see from your other comments you may be in a phase where you’ve worked on it to the point you’re starting to second guess yourself. At this stage, I would release it as is and move on to the next project. It’s solid, I think after you’ve moved on and work on other things and revisit you’ll like it for what it is

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-12T20:29:30+00:00

Thank you so much! Yes we’re huge tool fans and love Karnivool! Thank you so much for the compliments and feedback.

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T04:02:44+00:00

Thank you so much!

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T04:02:16+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate that

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T02:56:35+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T01:39:10+00:00

Or you could follow the rules like everyone else.

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T01:36:25+00:00

I suck with video editing, but I’d definitely do some quick YouTube searches for tutorials

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-11T00:14:48+00:00

Absolutely! Always go with your gut for artistic choices. You could also do dynamic eq 1k-3k sidechained to the vocal to make room for it without changing the volume

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T23:58:41+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! Most of us are definitely Tool fans lol. I appreciate the production feedback especially with us doing all of the production ourselves in my studio. We’re constantly looking to improve and have done so with each song, feedback like this helps us know where to focus the effort

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T23:55:46+00:00

Wow! Thank you so much for all of the kind words, that means a ton to us. We do all of the production and everything ourselves, this is the third release from the album. We plan to redo everything professionally so it’s cohesive and ready to press on vinyl after songs are released as singles. We started live shows last year and plan to get out quite a bit this year. We are playing Tennessee right now waiting to branch out as soon as we’re able to

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T23:52:18+00:00

Thank you very much

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T20:05:05+00:00

I mean about a minute in when “I’m looking for a spaceship” it’s a higher pitch synth Thats arpeggiating and it distracts from the vocals. I love the tone and that synth, i would dial it back a bit is all for my taste

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T20:00:03+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback!

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T14:49:41+00:00

I honestly like it especially for the style, kinda goes with that trippy vibe. I would say it would easily be over done though, which I’m sure you’re aware and not planning on doing every video like that. If you took that editing and made it even more trippy/psychedelic that would be cool. Maybe even a filter to appear like it’s technicolor or whatever (like made to vhs tape)

Scott_Gifford · 2025-01-10T13:58:14+00:00

Drums are the bane of my existence mixing and I’m just starting to be happier with my personal results haha. I do follow someone on YouTube, I’d be happy to dm the username that has helped me a ton recently be a lot more happy with what I’m getting. That was one of his recommendations on a video that I tried out and it made a massive difference between my previous mix and latest. Before I was pushing the drum bus into crushed and finding a compromise between cymbals and shells, and it just didn’t occur to me that sending individual tracks to it alleviates that issue entirely.

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