You perfectly emulate the sound of 90s grunge. It's very appropriate you tagged Alice in Chains because it'd fit so perfectly on one of their albums. Lyrics and guitar are top notch.
Excellent work.

You perfectly emulate the sound of 90s grunge. It's very appropriate you tagged Alice in Chains because it'd fit so perfectly on one of their albums. Lyrics and guitar are top notch. Excellent work.

Amazing. This is throwing me back to The Crow era

Amazing. This is throwing me back to The Crow era

Well shit, this is really really great, great job

Well shit, this is really really great, great job :)

Really captured that grunge angst, great mix and vox
Love the track art, it adds a lot

Really captured that grunge angst, great mix and vox Love the track art, it adds a lot <3

Dude, you already heard us gush live in weeklymeets but man, so killer. That main verse guitar progression was so good! Way to constantly bring your A game!

Dude, you already heard us gush live in weeklymeets but man, so killer. That main verse guitar progression was so good! Way to constantly bring your A game!

That guitar is EVERYTHING. Also I love that we both did tracks this week that have "time" in the title.

That guitar is EVERYTHING. Also I love that we both did tracks this week that have "time" in the title.

Great track; feels like an intelligent cross of late 60s and mid 90s.  I don't know what you're unhappy about with the mix; it sounds great on my monitors―the guitar tone and sheen on the vocals sound legit.

Great track; feels like an intelligent cross of late 60s and mid 90s. I don't know what you're unhappy about with the mix; it sounds great on my monitors―the guitar tone and sheen on the vocals sound legit.

Thank you! Always loved AiC, and the kind of harmonies they would pull. Glad I did them justice Guitar gang rise up!

High praise...one of the best soundtracks EVER That CD lived in my player for a long time...to say nothing of the movie (I think I saw it in the theater 18 times).

Thank you sir...this was so much fun to make

Thanks! Lots of vocal layers - I doubled the verse, and I think I have five layers going on in the chorus.

So glad you liked the cover art! Funny about that - I wanted a clock image and started searching online for one, but then remembered, "Dude, you, like, have a LOT of clocks."

I should start basing my cover art around more of my own pictures....

Thank you!

Funny, I sort of stumbled backwards into that progression and had to reverse engineer what I did after the fact...

I haven't ever really modulated key like this before, or at least not with any awareness. I need to do it more

You're giving me time so I can waste it! XD XD XD That's awesome.

Thanks! I so love the guitar tone I got in this track, it was inspiring. I spent a lot of '24 working on my heavy music sound with a rather lengthy signal chain - and these plugins got me there in pretty much one step. Soundgarden based a lot of their sound around the Bassman head for guitars, so it seems fitting that a Sunn bass amp worked so well here

Thank you!! And thanks for the sanity check on my mix. I had a sound in my head for what I was trying to achieve on vocals and wasn't quite there...but was missing that what I had was OK in its own right. Also had to finish FAST...did all vocals and final mix in one four hour session. It's always nice to have an additional day to let a mix settle in your head

[quote=BarristerPlong]You perfectly emulate the sound of 90s grunge. It's very appropriate you tagged Alice in Chains because it'd fit so perfectly on one of their albums. Lyrics and guitar are top notch. Excellent work.[/quote] Thank you! Always loved AiC, and the kind of harmonies they would pull. Glad I did them justice <3 Guitar gang rise up! [quote=alterationx10]Amazing. This is throwing me back to The Crow era[/quote] High praise...one of the best soundtracks EVER <3 That CD lived in my player for a long time...to say nothing of the movie (I think I saw it in the theater 18 times). [quote=bobbyd]Well shit, this is really really great, great job :)[/quote] Thank you sir...this was so much fun to make :) [quote=Vivi]Really captured that grunge angst, great mix and vox Love the track art, it adds a lot <3[/quote] Thanks! Lots of vocal layers - I doubled the verse, and I think I have five layers going on in the chorus. So glad you liked the cover art! Funny about that - I wanted a clock image and started searching online for one, but then remembered, "Dude, you, like, have a LOT of clocks." I should start basing my cover art around more of my own pictures.... [quote=dadboy]Dude, you already heard us gush live in weeklymeets but man, so killer. That main verse guitar progression was so good! Way to constantly bring your A game![/quote] Thank you! <3 Funny, I sort of stumbled backwards into that progression and had to reverse engineer what I did after the fact... [spoiler=Some theory musings:] Song is in key of G, mainly going between G and Em (I and vi). Em is the relative minor of G...but the Em is voiced as an E5, so it feels both major and minor. Chorus jumps up the the D (the V), goes to C (the IV)...but then goes to an A, which modulates us up one step from G to the key of A. It makes the Em from the key of G into Emaj, and gives us that C# "sour" tone.[/spoiler] I haven't ever really modulated key like this before, or at least not with any awareness. I need to do it more :) [quote=brian botkiller]That guitar is EVERYTHING. Also I love that we both did tracks this week that have "time" in the title. [/quote] You're giving me time so I can waste it! XD XD XD That's awesome. Thanks! I so love the guitar tone I got in this track, it was inspiring. I spent a lot of '24 working on my heavy music sound with a rather lengthy signal chain - and these plugins got me there in pretty much one step. Soundgarden based a lot of their sound around the Bassman head for guitars, so it seems fitting that a Sunn bass amp worked so well here :) [quote=ineff]Great track; feels like an intelligent cross of late 60s and mid 90s. I don't know what you're unhappy about with the mix; it sounds great on my monitors―the guitar tone and sheen on the vocals sound legit.[/quote] Thank you!! And thanks for the sanity check on my mix. :) I had a sound in my head for what I was trying to achieve on vocals and wasn't quite there...but was missing that what I had was OK in its own right. Also had to finish FAST...did all vocals and final mix in one four hour session. It's always nice to have an additional day to let a mix settle in your head :)

Paisley, you're the most talented frog that I know! You're hitting the nail firmly on the early 90s grunge. I don't hear anything particularly wrong with the mix. Could it be done differently? Certainly. Would that be a better mix? Who knows. I think this mix is perfectly fine the way it is. Let me listen again. Yup, very well done song indeed!

Ps. last minute course changes and rush jobs for the win! ;-)

Paisley, you're the most talented frog that I know! You're hitting the nail firmly on the early 90s grunge. I don't hear anything particularly wrong with the mix. Could it be done differently? Certainly. Would that be a better mix? Who knows. I think this mix is perfectly fine the way it is. Let me listen again. Yup, very well done song indeed! Ps. last minute course changes and rush jobs for the win! ;-)

Loving the AIC grunge feel especially around the 2min mark when the guitars are chugging and your vocals are soaring.  Hell yais! Awesome guitar solo too \m/

Loving the AIC grunge feel especially around the 2min mark when the guitars are chugging and your vocals are soaring. Hell yais! Awesome guitar solo too \m/

Thank you so much! Glad I hit the target

And as always, your perspective is appreciated, you give me good things to think about. I should clarify a bit more what I meant by "not happy" in that moment. I was aiming for a different sound, a bit more "open". I did not hit that - but ultimately I like what I did. I turned this track really quickly over a 24 hour period and then submitted...and sometimes it takes a few days, a few steps back (and some outside perspective) to figure out what I did.

Hell yeah! Some people push through, I tend to find greater excitement in scrapping and re-doing

Thank you so much - AIC sets such a standard in my mind as far as what can be done with harmonies in rock music. Beautiful and heavy. Also, I'm not a technical guitar player, but I love going for feel. I need to revisit this sometime this year   We'll see if the genre path leads me back here!

[quote=electronic_tiger]Paisley, you're the most talented frog that I know! You're hitting the nail firmly on the early 90s grunge. I don't hear anything particularly wrong with the mix. Could it be done differently? Certainly. Would that be a better mix? Who knows. I think this mix is perfectly fine the way it is. Let me listen again. Yup, very well done song indeed![/quote] Thank you so much! Glad I hit the target <3 And as always, your perspective is appreciated, you give me good things to think about. I should clarify a bit more what I meant by "not happy" in that moment. I was aiming for a different sound, a bit more "open". I did not hit that - but ultimately I like what I did. I turned this track really quickly over a 24 hour period and then submitted...and sometimes it takes a few days, a few steps back (and some outside perspective) to figure out what I did. :) [quote]Ps. last minute course changes and rush jobs for the win! ;-)[/quote] Hell yeah! Some people push through, I tend to find greater excitement in scrapping and re-doing :) [quote=Tone Matrix]Loving the AIC grunge feel especially around the 2min mark when the guitars are chugging and your vocals are soaring. Hell yais! Awesome guitar solo too \m/[/quote] Thank you so much - AIC sets such a standard in my mind as far as what can be done with harmonies in rock music. Beautiful and heavy. Also, I'm not a technical guitar player, but I love going for feel. I need to revisit this sometime this year <3 We'll see if the genre path leads me back here!

This song is so nostalgic for me! The guitar tone is really sick and I can definitely hear the Sound Garden and Alice In Chains influence, and maybe even a little Stone Temple Pilots? Really well done, this one is a very enjoyable listen.

This song is so nostalgic for me! The guitar tone is really sick and I can definitely hear the Sound Garden and Alice In Chains influence, and maybe even a little Stone Temple Pilots? Really well done, this one is a very enjoyable listen.

Solid song!

I don't feel it was a waste of time to read you description and listen to your track.

Love the vocal layers. You did an awesome job with the back vocals.

Solid song! I don't feel it was a waste of time to read you description and listen to your track. Love the vocal layers. You did an awesome job with the back vocals.

Brilliant. I hear the ghosts of so may remembered songs in your music, I an positively haunted right now.

I hear your mix struggles too lol, those harmonies are tricky but what I hear is more vocals fighting with guitar mid tone distortion than vocals fighting with themselves. Have you used Trackspacer at all? This might be a good use case.

I am a distortion addict with hearing issues in certain frequencies so I feel your pain lol

Brilliant. I hear the ghosts of so may remembered songs in your music, I an positively haunted right now. I hear your mix struggles too lol, those harmonies are tricky but what I hear is more vocals fighting with guitar mid tone distortion than vocals fighting with themselves. Have you used Trackspacer at all? This might be a good use case. I am a distortion addict with hearing issues in certain frequencies so I feel your pain lol

Thank you! Love STP...Robert DeLeo was a huge influence when I was first learning bass, he's one of my favorite.

Thank you! I think this is the first time I've tried doing a lot of harmony layers, or doubling. It's given me the itch to try more

Boo!

And thank you

Oh...OHHH. That makes a LOT of sense. I did barely any EQ on the guitar, and I only did the standard eq I usually put on my voice (roll off the lows to 200, then a couple notches at ~450 and ~800)....no work relative to each other. That would go a long way to explain why it feels stuffy to me.

I really want to spend a little more time in vocal harmony land, gonna investigate Trackspacer or some workalikes and see what happens....thank you!!

[quote=Dyrt Dyzyrt]This song is so nostalgic for me! The guitar tone is really sick and I can definitely hear the Sound Garden and Alice In Chains influence, and maybe even a little Stone Temple Pilots? Really well done, this one is a very enjoyable listen.[/quote] Thank you! Love STP...Robert DeLeo was a huge influence when I was first learning bass, he's one of my favorite. <3 [quote=djippy]Solid song! I don't feel it was a waste of time to read you description and listen to your track. Love the vocal layers. You did an awesome job with the back vocals.[/quote] Thank you! I think this is the first time I've tried doing a lot of harmony layers, or doubling. It's given me the itch to try more :) [quote=neon liminal]Brilliant. I hear the ghosts of so may remembered songs in your music, I an positively haunted right now.[/quote] Boo! :D And thank you <3 [quote]I hear your mix struggles too lol, those harmonies are tricky but what I hear is more vocals fighting with guitar mid tone distortion than vocals fighting with themselves. Have you used Trackspacer at all? This might be a good use case. I am a distortion addict with hearing issues in certain frequencies so I feel your pain lol[/quote] Oh...OHHH. That makes a LOT of sense. I did barely any EQ on the guitar, and I only did the standard eq I usually put on my voice (roll off the lows to 200, then a couple notches at ~450 and ~800)....no work relative to each other. That would go a long way to explain why it feels stuffy to me. I really want to spend a little more time in vocal harmony land, gonna investigate Trackspacer or some workalikes and see what happens....thank you!!

Ooh yes, I am SO here for some Paisleyfrog grunge! Love this kind of chord prog so much, it sounds like resilience and bravery and it’s very richly realized here. Awesome job!

Ooh yes, I am SO here for some Paisleyfrog grunge! Love this kind of chord prog so much, it sounds like resilience and bravery and it’s very richly realized here. Awesome job!

Man, you nailed the vibe so well -- the guitars, the voice, the tempo, the ambience -- if you told us you found this track on a cassette at a thrift store I would totally believe it.

Man, you nailed the vibe so well -- the guitars, the voice, the tempo, the ambience -- if you told us you found this track on a cassette at a thrift store I would totally believe it. :)

Sweet tones! Gotta look into those stomptones plugins. He's got a bunch of amps I've been lusting after.

Oh and cool song too, epic grungy songwriting. Would love to hear this one played live over a huge PA while enjoying a beer in the sun.

Sweet tones! Gotta look into those stomptones plugins. He's got a bunch of amps I've been lusting after. Oh and cool song too, epic grungy songwriting. Would love to hear this one played live over a huge PA while enjoying a beer in the sun.

Amazing guitar tones and a nice thick grunge mix. Great vocals (and the harmonies!) and production as usual. This throws me right back to my job at the record store, watching Soundgarden and Alice in Chains flying out the door faster than we could stock them.

Amazing guitar tones and a nice thick grunge mix. Great vocals (and the harmonies!) and production as usual. This throws me right back to my job at the record store, watching Soundgarden and Alice in Chains flying out the door faster than we could stock them.

Oh yeah I like the vintage vibe of this track! There are some parts that remind me of STP!

Oh yeah I like the vintage vibe of this track! There are some parts that remind me of STP!

such a strong song and really well done. also very catchy, stayed in my head long after it ended!

such a strong song and really well done. also very catchy, stayed in my head long after it ended!

Woaaaah instantly those murky guitar tones had me captivated. Then the drums and vocals kicked in. Wonderfully mixed and a catchy dreamy melody! Excellent work!

Woaaaah instantly those murky guitar tones had me captivated. Then the drums and vocals kicked in. Wonderfully mixed and a catchy dreamy melody! Excellent work!

this was definitely time well spent

this was definitely time well spent