Hi, Josie.

Nice work! There's lots of stuff I liked about the demo: The power chord introduction, the strong opening (vocals and instruments), the added guitars at :20, the strum at :33 ... the lead guitar at 2:08, the crash at 2:34, how clean and balanced the mix is. Lots of nice details all around.

One negative thing that struck me was that the instruments seem to lack "attitude". They're doing all the right thing in the right place, but they sound laid back instead of punchy and aggressive.

For example, I love that you've got those guitar strums starting at 0:45, but they're just a bit mellow, instead of kicking in behind you. It might just be a matter of mixing - bringing out the guitar high end a bit so it's got more "crunch", bringing up the volume, or narrowing the range of the bass.

Around 1:20, it might be nice to have maybe a hint of the guitar solo that was to come later.

Other than that, it sounds good to me.

Last edited by dcuny; 12/16/10 03:45 PM.
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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?