Three Percent

An in-progress mix. I'm curious about your reaction.

Three Percent

The overall idea is very good, the first part with the staitic E on the guitar is a good resourse, maybe at some points that E could be doubled one 8va higher by a second guitar (or re-recorded) in the opposite channel... just and Idea...

I still believe you need a more powerful bass, the static guitar sounds good but It seems nobody supports it, the bass for instace in 2:14 and 2:19 the E-C-E-C changes.... that C is almost unhearable, sounds like the bass needs new strings (again, that how it sounds, not the kinda insulting thing )

maybe you're just listening to your mixes with and Equalized stereo or with a subwoofer that make it sounds "ok" but if you check it with a frequency analizer you'll see all low frequecies are a little weak, (the bass drum too) and not only that, but the Harmony also needs to have that bass louder.

When the first idea re-appears on the last part it is slower, the first one has like more "energy".

The vocals, I think you don't want very much "electronic" effects within your style, so it's ok, leave it unchaged, sounds good.

I think the meditatibe part in the middle, could modulate into Gm or other, so when the Em comes back, it sounds as a stronger change, this way all in Em, the surprice is less.

Anyway Man, this is good, those are only the things I would do, but I'm not you of course so, well done..

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the volume of the bass part - it completely depends on needs of the composition. In my view, the bass is not too quiet in this song relative to the information it conveys. If the bass carried the song in any meaningful way, it would be louder. I think people should divorce themselves from notions of how a rock song (etc.) should sound when they listen, and ask if there are any particular music ideas that are being obscured in a poor mix. That might be the case, as you suggest during the E-C-E-C part, but the goal at that moment is to actually slow the listener's pulse, so the speak... so it makes sense to begin emphasizing every other measure with the bass, instead of every single measure. I believe I manually faded down the C notes to make them softer.

The middle section does modulate - to B minor. I just don't hear it modulating to G minor. I don't know why that particular choice would sound better. Just me. There isn't supposed to be a particular moment when the main key obviously comes back. My challenge was to slowly blend the middle section back into the main theme. Maybe I didn't succeed there, but that was the aim.

Sometimes, I feel that people simply point out things that were done intentionally as if they were errors... i.e. I know that the main theme come back slower at the end... It's not really supposed to have more raw energy than the first statement of the theme, for reasons that have to do with the implicit narrative of the song (Google "Three percent"). Perhaps I could record another version of the droning E static guitar, to flesh it out when it returns. That would aid the narrative of the song.

I'm definitely not happy with the current vocals. The main thing I want to change is to recruit other people to sing, so that it sounds like a true group singing, not like overdubs. The "ohh"'s in the quiet middle section will be handled by a female vocalist. Anyways, thanks again. I play with a jazz bass... I'll consider getting more flexible pickups installed.