songs

[crash8_durham]

I have some songs posted online of my own. If anyone cares to listen I welcome all comments and opinions good and bad.

thanks

http://www.myspace.com/markclay

[Victoria]

nice stuff, crash..!. . I listened to all of your songs carefully, and I have to say, my favourite was "You". BUt all the songs were equally cool.
You said that any remarks, either good or bad, would be accepted. So...The only thing I felt with one of the songs : "Hold on you" was that it got rather slow (tempo?) at times, but it still remains a nice acoustic piece. "Well, I don't know much about criticising music, all I do is to listen to it and see if I respond positively to it or not. On the whole, I did this time. keep it up!!!

[crash8_durham]

Victoria, thanks so much for listening and for the feedback. That means a lot.

[fore15]

So i listened to some of "You" it was pretty good but melody reminded me alot of the song "She" that Elvis Costello sang on the Notting Hill soundtrack.

[Rémi]

Those are cool songs, Crash.

I would be interested to know what you used to record them (I suppose it's Protools) and also the effects you used on the main guitar (the overdrive one).

[crash8_durham]

thanks for listening remi

I have an old TASCAM analog 4 track cassette player that i got at a pawn shop for 60 bucks. It doesnt sound great but it does the trick to get things down so I dont forget them. I really wish I had about 24 tracks to play with but I do the best with what I have to work with. What are Protools?

I make the drum tracks from the different effects on an old casio keyboard. I have a pretty nice guitar and a small Fender champ amp that I can run directly into the 4 track. I have to mic the acoustic which never sounds right to me. The guitar effects all come from a foot pedal that I have with 80 different effect sounds on it. Other than that it's all trial and error. It's fun to play around with though.

thanks again for listening.

[Rémi]

Well, those records sound quite good through a cassette player.

Protools is a professional software for digital audio recording and editing.
That's what I used during my sound engineering classes.
More infos ? Go here.

[crash8_durham]

thanks

where can I hear your music?

[crash8_durham]

So i listened to some of "You" it was pretty good but melody reminded me alot of the song "She" that Elvis Costello sang on the Notting Hill soundtrack.

A friend pointed that out the other day as well. I didn't think about it before that but when he said that I immediatley saw the comparison. They are definately similar but I assure you it was unintentional. I love that song by EC as I am a huge Costello fan but I would never want to rip him off. I listened to both and the are different enough that I don't think I am going to get sued. As there are no royalties for me anyway I suppose that would be moot but yeah they do sound similar. The other fact of the matter is that EC's song is far superior to mine.

thanks for listening though

[Victoria]

Victoria, thanks so much for listening and for the feedback. That means a lot.

Most welcome, crash. But don't take my criticism too seriously, I only have but a layman's knowledge about how music is composed, arranged, etc.
Just think of me as a pleased audience.

[Rémi]

where can I hear your music?

Well, the records I did during my sound engineering classes were not my music, but from professional musicians.
We didn't keep any records because they were all awful...

Though, I have a couple of songs from my own on my PC, but there again, it sounds absolutely terrible.

[crash8_durham]

well if you ever care to share I would be happy to listen.