Posts by Songwritersoul

Quote from Ingolf

I don't get this. You don't care about the lyrics because you're French?
I'm scratching my head now.

I agree. When I read that, I was confused. I would think someone from France would agree with the message even more than many Americans would.

Hi guys,

This is the most political song I've ever done and I wanted to put some images with the music to give it more power. If you like the music and agree with the message, I hope you'll share it and help more people to stop and think about what's going on in the world and not just in their busy, little lives. All electric guitars are the Kemper. Thank you for watching.
CAUTION: There are a few graphic images of war casualties in the video.

Great playing man. Nice job and good luck.

Ok, I figured it out.

...also, if anyone knows how I can just have that link embedded etc here on the page without redirecting to my site, I'd love to know how to do that. I tried using embed code, but no luck. Thanks.

Hi guys,
This song is the 2nd one on my album and was all kemper throughout. Pretty much everything on the album was a mix of M Wagener's Rok Pak and Till Scheicher's Chimera profiles.
Would love to get feedback/constructive criticism etc as I'm always trying to improve as a songwriter.
Thanks for listening
http://stevenwhitaker.rocks/lyrics/s/in_your_world
Steve

Quote from warlus1

on the first guitar, it seem that you use the "cubase warp", a kind of stretching

I don't even know what that is. I use Pro Tools and that effect was just a Leslie effect with probably some delay reverb and maybe a little bit of chorus, but nothing too fancy. I just twist knobs on the kemper until I get something I like.

waraba: All electric guitars on the album were the Kemper. What you're hearing in the background on "in your world" is just some random amp/cab with the kemper leslie effect set to the song's tempo. I don't remember what I used, but it was nothing fancy effects-wise. Thanks for listening.

Wow! Thanks for your comments. That might be the best review I've had yet. I consider myself to be more a songwriter than a guitar player and more a guitar player than a singer so I was surprised about your comment. Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Steve

Hi guys,

This is the 2nd song on my album Edge of Oblivion and would love feedback positive or negative-whatever comes to mind. All guitars are Kemper using M Wagener's Rok Pak and Till's Chimera pack. As with all of my tunes, it's hard to get a huge guitar sound because of how the guits need to be eq'd for my sadly low singing range.
Thanks for listening: http://stevenwhitaker.rocks/lyrics/s/in_your_world

Steve

Thanks for the feedback. After this one was finished/mastered, I really felt like it did need a little guitar solo or something a little more in that instrumental section so I agree with you. Sometimes sparseness works and sometimes it doesn't I guess.
thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree with you with the mix sounding a bit static. I like having different elements popping in and out at different times and giving a more dynamic feel, but since I didn't mix the songs myself, I found it very challenging to get the mix engineer to translate my vision...without driving him nuts with infinite requests.
thanks,
Steve

Cool song and great message too. I'm not religious, but I dig the message of this tune.
I must say, the whole time I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, "he better not lean back in that chair."

nice job,
Steve

Really dig the chord progression of the riff on the 2nd one. Nice playing and tone indeed!

Yikes, tough crowd here. Was it my long, rambling post?
Would love some feedback if there's anyone out there.
http://stevenwhitaker.rocks/lyrics/s/pretty_empty_head

Week 1: Pretty empty head: http://www.stevenwhitaker.rocks/lyrics/s/pretty_empty_head

Hi everyone,

I haven't been very active here for quite a while because I've been burning the candle at both ends trying to do something I've been telling myself I'd do for 20 years now...and that is to record a complete album of some of my songs. While working full-time and trying to keep the peace with my wonderful girlfriend, it's taken over a year of complete dedication and way more money than I intended to finish this beast. I hired a drummer in London and a bass player in Nashville and recorded everything else at my home studio here in Portland, Oregon USA. ALL electric guitars on the album are the Kemper mostly using the M. Wagener Rok Pak and Till Schleicher's Chimera profiles. Because I have a pretty low vocal range, a lot of meat had to be eq'd out of the guitars to sit my vocals properly so this album may not be the best spotlight how good the Kemper sounds, but the songs as a whole came out pretty decent I think. You be the judge.

Ok, now, I wanted to try something I've never done before so I can get some feedback (positive and negative/constructive) because I'm constantly trying to improve the quality of my songwriting and finished product so each week for the next 13 weeks, I will post a "song of the week" from the album and anyone who wants can chime in and give me their thoughts on anything from mix comments, songwriting/arrangement comments to marketing ideas etc. I'm just interested in growing as a songwriter/producer and also in any random feedback you have for me positive or negative.

This album is a collection of songs written over a 20 year span and were never intended to go on the same album with one another so cohesion from song to song is lacking, but it's a good thing if you like some diversity.

The first song is titled "Pretty empty head" and was inspired by a girl I dated who was really tuned out of the world outside of her little bubble and never really thought about much beyond reality tv and Enterainment Tonight.

Thanks for listening,
Steve
In case you missed it above, you can listen here: http://www.stevenwhitaker.rocks/lyrics/s/pretty_empty_head

Sounds better than a lot of Satriani's tones to me. I think he's a great guitar player, but what I just heard here is every bit as good as anything Jo's done...except Surfing with the alien. I love his tone on that one.
Great job!

I really like the music and the playing here. Nice job. Lyrically, I have no idea what the song is about. What is the song about?
Sounds like your drummer has some great chops too.

Steve

Very cool song. Thanks for sharing. Just a thought, but it might be cool to bring in a lead guitar somewhere in there with long, sustaining notes and push the finger tapping part to the background for a bit. Either way, I like it.

Very cool. I especially loved the intro. Also really dig the intro visual effect with your name on the vid. Can you tell me what software you used for that effect?

thanks,
Steve