Score: 5

"cool"

by: DXsamurai

date: October 17, 2009

I liked the riff and with speed and a little work that solo will be awesome. If your having trouble making a solo tapping helps. keep up the goo work

Score: 4

"[new review]"

by: Sialys

date: October 17, 2009

I understand you've probably not been playing guitar for too long, I only say that because of the lack of dynamics and fluidity in your playing.

But, first off, your tone needs some serious work, your sound is much more bluesy than metal. First thing you need to work on is getting some more gain in there to take up some of that space that you leave hangin' around.

Second, some reverb and delay and just a touch of chorus would really help out your solo's tone. A hall reverb at 3.6ms and a delay at 400ms would do you a lot of good and the little bit of chorus will really tie your notes together.

Third, your rhythm guitar needs some serious work. It's boring, it's the same thing over and over and over, when you came in with the tremolo picking it wasn't bad but you still had the same two notes over and over.

You solo really isn't bad, but you have too many rests and in a few spots you went sharp or you went flat and it really hurt you. I think what's really hurting you is the rhythm guitar, it's just too bland and boring.

If you were a bit more specific with your rig I could give you a lot more help.
What kind of amp are you using? Any pedals? What kind of guitar? What kind of pickups? How do you record? Etcetera.

It's really not horrible, you just need some work with your tone and structure.

Score: 3

"Needs quite a bit."

by: loansindi

date: October 15, 2009

I think first and foremost you need to address your recording technique. You don't describe your setup so I can't be more specific, but it's got a lot of room for improvement.

Secondly, you need to find a way to fake up some drums, and bass if possible. The guitar work doesn't really stand on its own.

The guitars could have more interesting rhythms. Your initial guitar is panned way too far right. Solo is too far left.

The guitar tone overall, and especially the solo tone, is incredibly weak. Where's the gain man?

Your solo is BEGGING for some reverb or something so it doesn't feel so flat. Be very attentive to string muting, a lot of your phrases end with string noise. I know that I tend to do nine million takes before I'm satisfied with a track. The solo would benefit from some legato techniques, I think. Overall it feels very uncertain. You've gotta be comfortable with your solo forward and backwards before you commit to it.

Don't take this review in a negative light. There's just a long way to go before I would call this a complete song.