Broken Silence - Flesh And Blood (We're Back!) - General

Quite a while ago I made a thread showing my bands first song 'Six Months' which I recorded and mixed in a studio completely by myself. I had a great ammount of feedback from you guys sharing your thoughts on what should be improved for next time. So, we're back with our second song [b]'Flesh And Blood'[/b] which you can listen to [b]HERE![/b] [url]http://www.myspace.com/brokensilencebanduk[/url] Don't be too harsh as this was a one man mission to produce, professional studios have like 3-6 guys working on it. :saddowns: We have a Facebook fan page, and we'd appreciate it endlessly if you became a fan! [url]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Broken-Silence/295452848779[/url] Cheers!

My only real complaint (other than my college library's Internet sucks cock, and I have to buffer every 30 or so seconds) rests in the clean/not harsh vocals. The instrumentation is really damn solid (except a part in the first 10 seconds, where it sounds like the guitar screwed up, and then it just clips and loops), and the harsh vocals are pretty good. I really enjoy the instrumentation. The instrumentation breakdown around 2:00 is awesome. Production may be a bit groggy, but that could be my laptop's tinny sound (even through headphones), the fact I'm playing it quietly, or something else. It may also be what you were looking for. All in all, pretty damn solid. As to the clean vocals, I don't know what's exactly off about them. I'd almost say it sounds like they're sitting atop the music (like oil on top of water), but that's not a very helpful analogy. I think it may just be I don't much care for his voice. Good job you guys. :rock: [editline]fish[/editline] The part at 3:59, where you have the awesome echo-clip effect on the vocals and an instrumental explosion, is especially cool. While we're on that subject, though, you don't need to say "We will never forget" more than 4 times. After the 12th time it gets really annoying. Twentieth time just pissed me off. And it keeps going.

I actually liked this, it didn't feel generic and shit. Calm down on the "We will never forget" part though.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;22218030]My only real complaint (other than my college library's Internet sucks cock, and I have to buffer every 30 or so seconds) rests in the clean/not harsh vocals. The instrumentation is really damn solid (except a part in the first 10 seconds, where it sounds like the guitar screwed up, and then it just clips and loops), and the harsh vocals are pretty good. I really enjoy the instrumentation. The instrumentation breakdown around 2:00 is awesome. Production may be a bit groggy, but that could be my laptop's tinny sound (even through headphones), the fact I'm playing it quietly, or something else. It may also be what you were looking for. All in all, pretty damn solid. As to the clean vocals, I don't know what's exactly off about them. I'd almost say it sounds like they're sitting atop the music (like oil on top of water), but that's not a very helpful analogy. I think it may just be I don't much care for his voice. Good job you guys. :rock: [editline]fish[/editline] The part at 3:59, where you have the awesome echo-clip effect on the vocals and an instrumental explosion, is especially cool. While we're on that subject, though, you don't need to say "We will never forget" more than 4 times. After the 12th time it gets really annoying. Twentieth time just pissed me off. And it keeps going.[/QUOTE] Thanks! If anything sounds groggy or as if it doesn't fit in the mix, that's pretty much my fault, I had to mix and master it completely by myself, and I'm not a professional. I had to spend absolutely ages looking up information on frequencies for certain things so that I don't loose the kick in the muddyness of the guitars for example, it was a pain in the ass really.

I like it. I could listen to an album of this.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;22218030]Twentieth time just pissed me off. And it keeps going.[/QUOTE] It's said 10 times. :saddowns: But yes, I can understand where you're coming from, we we're just going for a big ending I guess! [b]Would be awesome if you could send it to a friend or something guys, it requires a large amount of effort to track a song (even more for me since I drum and then mix everything!) We just don't wanna be stuck with boring office jobs when we're older. <3[/b]

[QUOTE=Blisster;22218956]I actually liked this, it didn't feel generic and shit. Calm down on the "We will never forget" part though.[/QUOTE] Thanks! It's comments like this which make us want to keep going.

I think you guys would really benefit from a solid producer. The core of it all is very solid but the production is understandably sparse and a little dry to listen to. Maybe a change of vocal style for the cleaner sections wouldn't go amiss, but for a self produced breadline effort it's considerably better than what my old band ever produced. Good luck to you guys :buddy:

Not a huge fan of the clean vocals or the echo, but it's pretty good.

Hey this is pretty damn good