I think I'll call this genre...happy metal.
All guitars are twisted and screwed from 2 of Guitorb's guitar samples (thanks again, Ted!)
Anyways, money isn't the 'Root of all Evil'~ just the worship of it.
Cheers all!
JayC
You've done it again! Great mix. Glad you could use my guitar. Many people think the Bible says,"money is the root of all evil." But, you're right,it says,"the love of money is the root of evil." So you don't have to be rich to be guilty of this one. But you ,my friend,are guilty of posting another awesome tune on Magix Info.
The artwork is great also.
-Ted
Hehe...I was laughing when I read "Happy Metal". And I am a metal guitarist at a band - so, here we go :).
You could shorten the intro a bit. It's okay like it is, but the sound starts coming through at 0:01. This may sound ridicolous, but a second wasted is a second you can cut out.
There are some slight problems with the HiHat to me.
Escpecially at parts like 0:11, where you got this two hits on it. First, it sounds a little bit weak compared to the drum-kit. Second, the second hit sounds a bit crippled here.... By the way, I am online talking about the open HiHat, the closed one is okay. The snare could also need some more power. How did you set up your equalizer of the drumset and the guitars?
I can imagine that it is hard to make something like this out of samples, but I am a guitarist. Sometimes you can hear that the guitar actually was playing on, for example at 0:35, 0:38 or 0:43....you hear a very, very slight sound of the next note....this is a little bit damaging for the atmosphere. If you have any chance to do so, I'll suggest to record this guitar.
0:43 - 0:45 sounds a bit confusing to me, even at the 5th time....there are some cutted parts at 0:43 where it sounds like one of them was cut to early and one was played to early, and at 0:44 two sample-pieces even overlap each other...this makes this part sounding a bit strange.
At 1:03 you bring in some synthesizer-sounds (?) which have kind of an echo around 1:13. The part around 1:13 sounds good, because you hear these sounds somehwere in the mix, but they are not too present. At 1:03 they are very present, which makes the audience expecting more of this....which won't come.
I recognized you repeated the drumbeat a lot....always this triple-basedrum-hit with the snare following....this get's boring within the song. The song is very .... how can I say it ... "alive", because there are some slight changes here, and some there....but all in all the drums and harmony is the same over and over again, without any breaks or cool parts. You got some breaks where you for example pitch the drums or have this filter-effect which is cutting the low frequenze....but this is not enough for the song to avoid reapeating itself over and over again.
To me as a guitarist the sound of the guitar, especially because it's cut out of samples, is not good....but I won't consider that in my rating because not everyone has the possibility to record the guitar and for sample-work it worked pretty good (except some mentioned things). Just sounds unauthentic.