Originally Posted by BYOBand
Hi All,
My questions in order of importance are:
  • Is the hissing of the flute too annoying? Is there anything I can do about it?
  • Do the congas work or is it just messy? I could not find the drums I wanted. I'm open to suggestions if you think something in the Pro pack could work.
  • What genre would you call this?


And of course, anything else you notice or care to offer...

Firstly re genre, I have no clue, but more often than not I haven't a clue what genre a lot of my material is. There are so many genres, subgenres, sub-subgenres and sub-sub-subgenres these days I haven't a clue how so much of my own work.

It's hard to criticise so much that's posted on this forum as so often it comes down to taste and preference, but I personally thought that both the flute and congas were the wrong instruments for the song.

What key is the song in and what's the tempo? Also, which program do you use for mixing the tracks? I only use Audacity as I was familiar with it prior to discovering BiaB, plus it's free and doesn't use up much disc space. I'd actually like to have a go at creating BiaB instrumentation for this song, but I've found through working with vocalists on Fiverr that the way they envisage how to produce a song around lyrics is totally alien to mine. One vocalist totally misunderstood clear instructions re what I wanted and produced her own version, completely ignoring my music, and while what she produced was actually quite brilliant just wasn't at all what I wanted. Re your song, I relate to the lyrics, so I'd choose more positive instrumentation.

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