Reviews for White Houses

[jambrother2]

good

this is awesome, its realy grungey
i think your vocals sound fine you have got a really good voice for this genre of music
and yeah you do sound like billy corgan from smashing pumpkins (but thats definately not a bad thing)

Diavaul1 responds:

Thanks, first real compliment we've gotten on vocals. And I dunno, we weren't going for Billy Corgan, but I guess it just turned out that way.

[xGrimlockx]

Needs some refining

Vocals need work. Just some work on staying in key needs to be done. Kinda sounds like you're trying too hard to sounds like Billy Corgan. Good composition though.

[Bobomatic]

Good Demo, Vocals could use a tiny bit of polishin

Don't get me wrong, this is clean for a demo. I'm critiquing very specific things which for demos can be negligible, but help with mixing for the Pop Radio Crowd.

For Vox, Perhaps try backing off the mic a little bit to avoid clipping and perhaps putting the vocals in stereo. Stereo can be achieved by either recording to two tracks simultaneously or just doubling the original vocal track and panning one to one side and the other to the other side. Depending on what you record with, it can be achieved with certain imaging plug-ins as well.

You manage to pick up some tape hiss sounds as well, which may happen because you record incredibly loud some parts, but during the verse everything else drops out. If you want to get rid of that sound, record everything at the same volume and use volume automation or sample editing to create the dynamics.

Also, the bass is fine for the most part.

Otherwise, you have a good accessible grunge sound.

Diavaul1 responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Our vocals are stereo during the chorus and mono during the verse. We did this because it sounded weird in verse due to the overdubbing. The tape hiss is there because we didn't record the bass loud enough the first time so we had to boost it. We could re record it, but we're lazy. I'm not sure about clipping vocals, we didn't really notice that.

[roensb]

Sounds good

Sounds pretty good. I would work on the balance so as not to drown out certain instruments or the singer. Needs some cleaning up overall but I did enjoy it. Keep up the good work

Diavaul1 responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, we know we have balance problems, that's because we record in a basement and it echoes, so drums get really weird.

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